: How you can prepare for a renovation?

All you need to do is before making any big change plan in your home, you have to be clear on these big questions.

Ready, set, wait! Before you could make any big changes to your home, you are requested to ask these big questions to yourself.

Q: How long you have planned to be living in your house after the renovation?

The longer you have planned to live in your home, it gives you more opportunity to be creative with your ideas. But if you have planned to sell your house in the next five years, then keep some of the potential buyers in mind whilst applying your ideas. It would be more appropriate to use the neutral colors for kitchen renovation Melbourne and bathrooms as well. The maple cabinets are more advisable to be used for the same purpose in order to use the neutral colors. Maple cabinets are more adaptive for everyone in a conventional style. Everyone has its own opinion about the material used for the cabinetry. Many people hate oak and some people hate cherry, but the majority of the people can live with maple.

Q: Is the renovation is going to be based on cosmetic fixes, or all out overhaul?

It is more preferable to make small changes at one point of time, but think about the long-term plans as well. If you want to buy a new kitchen sink, it would be suggested to buy one with the enough holes in the deck for the faucet, soap dispenser and sprayers that you will be needed to add later on. Whereas cutting the holes in the stainless steel or porcelain is another tough job. And if you are planning to buy the new cabinets later, then it's not suitable to replace the countertop with an expensive granite, there would be no chance to reuse the granite countertop once you have changed the cabinets. Either it breaks when you try to remove it or it doesn’t go with the footprints of the new cabinets.

Q: Have you prepared yourself for a long term chaos?

Have a realistic approach for about how long these changes might take. Renovation process can prolong for months, so have to prepare yourself to do without that bathroom, kitchen or the bedroom. When you are checking for the references, the most considerable question is to ask whether the contractor is going to finish your work on time or not? You will be surprised that how quickly the week will be turning into the month.

Q: Is the renovation keep the style of the home or not?

Before you could make any big changes in your home inside reflect what will be the future buyers of your home will expect from the outside. If you live in a house in Victorian style then you cannot make it into contemporary. Do not try to change the Victorian floors and woodwork because people who see the historical interior will expect the historical exterior as well. This can also be applied to the modern homes where the buyers do not expect the old fashioned details like antique crown molding.