I have had an APC UPS for my home setup for about 6-7 years, the ES 700 model. This because in rural Cambridgeshire we used to get (not so bad now) frequent outages, especially in thunderstorms or when farmers were moving their high machinery, which would often take out power lines. The final straw was one series of on/off/on/off/on switches which so corrupted my OS that it took me 3 whole days to recover the machine to a fully working state.
We still get brief outages, probably when supply feed circuits are being switched, and the UPS has been well worthwhile. The battery life seems to be about 4 years, so I am probably due another one soon. From my experience, you have made a good choice.