Home Renovation - Expectations Versus Reality

If you are planning to remodel your home then certainly there must be a lot of expectations in your mind. You must have done a lot of research too, how your home should look like. However, unless you do proper planning, your expectation can never become a reality.

People even say that you must not start trusting those reality shows related to home renovations, which are shown in HGTV from time to time. 

Naturally, when you are going for the home renovation then there will be many expectations that are based on your own ideas but while you go ahead with your project, you can expect a few surprises too. Some of those surprises may not be very pleasant too.

Let us see some of the expectations that most of us may have while we conceive the idea of going for our home renovations.

DIY house renovations can save you money

For any minor home repairs, going in a DIY way is a good idea, however, house renovations can be a totally different thing. These days you can get plenty of DIY ideas for home improvement online.

However, in reality, your home repairs can be successful in a DIY way to save some money but DIY renovations Australia may often disappoint you. 

Everything will happen as planned in the original schedule

Many of us often tend to think that we have planned well and hired the best contractor, hence my renovation work will complete as planned. 

For any minor home repair services you may have met your expectation, however in any medium-sized project, any unexpected thing can happen and you may get behind schedule despite your best efforts.

You have sufficient money available as budgeted

Even the best renovation builders often cannot complete any project as per the budget. Often the cost of materials changes or certain unforeseen problems can occur that may derail your budget.

So you must always keep some allowances in your budget that may be anything from 10 to 30 percent of what you planned. 

You don’t need someone to monitor your progress

It is very essential that you must make someone responsible to monitor the progress of the project. Quite possibly some of your home ideas may not be feasible or your renovation builders must have failed to understand you. 

If someone is regularly monitoring the progress and also expense can keep a proper track. Otherwise, reality will go far away from expectation.

You will resist every temptation

While going particularly for home decoration during any home renovation project you may get plenty of new ideas. 

For example, you must have planned initially to go for laminate flooring, however, while you visit the market you may come across certain attractive-looking hybrid flooring at a very good price and you could not resist the temptation.

Your partner will agree whatever your ideas are

Never assume that whatever idea about the home renovation project that you have conceived will be agreed upon completely by your partner or all other members of the family. 

Therefore, it is very essential that during the planning stage itself you must involve every one of your home who matters so that at the end there should not be any dissatisfaction.

You will find everything in one place

Often people tend to think that if they visit the best flooring companies of their town, they will find all kinds of flooring options. Everything will be available in a single place. There is a possibility that the local store you visited does not stock any material for say vinyl flooring. 

Maybe you have to travel an extra 10 kilometres to find another shop to get the required flooring material that you are looking for.

You can execute your plan remotely

Often most of us tend to think that if we have hired the right contractor and given him all the materials needed for the project, then all the ideas will be executed as planned if you are living in a different city. 

It is very essential that you must regularly visit the project site and give him feedback regularly and monitor the progress.

You will win by using materials obtained at discounted price

Don’t rejoice if you have got any material in the market where a supplier has agreed to offer you a heavy discount. However, you must ensure the quality of the material, which is your priority.

Don’t think that you will have the last laugh if you could save money during your purchase. The supplier must have given a discount for some good reason that you will come to know after a few years. 

Hiring an architect is the best option

You may have hired the best architect who must have shown you the beautiful plan. However, at the end of the project don’t get surprised to find your bathroom is not perfectly square or the kitchen slab is not as straight. 

Conclusion

What you see on TV shows may not be reality but you must hire a good contractor whom you can trust. You must discuss with him all your ideas and seek his opinion while planning your expectation. Also, regularly monitor during project execution to meet most of the expectations.