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Your home is a sanctuary away from everything else in the world. It is a place where you spend time with your family, where you feel most relaxed and comfortable, and where you ultimately live your life.
Despite these points, you might not be happy with your current house situation.
This could be due to various factors. Your home may have become cluttered due to being increasingly piled up with possessions. Perhaps the décor hasn’t received an update in a number of years, or you find yourself confined because of a lack of space.
The good news: you can take back your space and not only be happy with your house but turn it into your dream home. This guide will spotlight seven steps to take so you can turn the dream into a reality.
1. Put together a budget
The first step in the process is to put together a realistic budget. While it can be difficult to price this up, especially as various issues are likely to come up during renovations, it is important you have a general idea about how much you’ll spend.
The last thing you want to do is go into a full renovation project, not have enough money available, and either stop halfway through or use forms of financing – which come attached with high-interest rates – to get the job done.
There is one problem when building a budget: time. Depending on your situation, it could take months or even years to save the cash you require. Just remodeling one room of your home could venture into the five-figure mark, for example. Due to this, it’s not uncommon for people to remortgage their house to follow their dream.
2. Take care of any lingering issues
To start with designing a dream home, you need a strong foundation in place. That means taking care of any repair problems currently affecting your home. These problems can range from relatively minor issues like a sticky door lock to major jobs such as a full electrical rewiring.
If you have faults like these plaguing your home, it’s only going to lead to your abode not being as comfortable as you want. Plus, if you leave certain concerns to linger for too long, they could develop into bigger problems down the line.
For example, say you don’t fix a broken furnace. While space heaters and blankets are workarounds for keeping you warm, your home is missing out on precious heat. This can lead to a build-up of mold and mildew, cause wood framing to deteriorate, frozen pipes, and other concerns. Not to mention a damp and cold environment can have a negative impact on your health. As a result, furnace repairs should be a priority before you start looking at new wallpaper and kitchen cabinets.
3. Planning structural changes
Is your house too cramped to truly feel like your dream home? One solution would be to find another home with more space. Yet, there are usually options available to expand the amount of room you have in your current property.
Perhaps the most common is an attic conversion. If you haven’t already turned this space into a livable area, it is a great way to add an extra bedroom to your house – perfect for growing families or if you have guests staying over. Other options include adding an extension or conservatory, especially if you have enough garden space available. Speaking of the garden, you may even go with a luxury shed as a space for something like crafting.
This type of undertaking is among the most expensive for any type of renovation. The average attic conversion cost is $20,000, for example. As a result, ensure you budget accordingly for this type of structural change.
4. Layout changes
Structural changes are not only exclusive to house additions. You might decide to make wholesale alterations to your home’s layout. This could include removing walls, for instance, where you create an open-plan space with your living room and kitchen.
With that said, layout changes don’t have to be so drastic. You could just move around the furniture in your bedroom or perhaps shift where your bathroom’s shower unit is located. However, you must confirm any alterations to the layout before moving forward.
5. Stick or twist
This is a home renovation. You’re going to be purchasing new furnishings and items to match your vision. However, unless you have an unlimited budget and dreams of erasing your entire past life, you won’t be replacing everything! There will be fixtures and fittings you want to keep.
With this in mind, you must decide what current possessions will be sold off, donated to goodwill, and thrown in the bin. Do you want to get rid of your old three-piece sofa set? Maybe the walls could do with a fresh lick of paint? Perhaps the kitchen cabinets are a little worse for wear?
When you know what needs replacing, you can gain a greater idea about what needs to be purchased, which helps with your budget and understanding the project’s overall scale.
6. Enlist help or go it alone
Another decision you have to make is to complete the renovation on your own or to use professional assistance. If you’re remodeling your kitchen, for example, it’s highly recommended you bring in a specialist team to do the work. Yet if it’s just standard decoration jobs, you might feel confident enough to go it alone.
Depending on the route you take, you could save a significant amount of money. However, it could also lead to a substandard finish – not ideal for an ideal home – so ensure you get this balancing act right.
7. Plan for the unexpected
This is a short point, but it doesn’t make it any less important: always be ready for the unexpected. You never know when you could come across a previously unknown issue with your home or if a certain job is more expensive than anticipated. At times like this, you must have a cool head. A special emergency fund would also be beneficial to have as a backup.
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