Spacing up Your Space with Style:
Home Remodeling Ideas

• House remodeling begins with a plan, budget and a clear goal.
• Visualization, referencing, and research are key!
• Enhancing different parts of your home.
• Design inspirations, trends, and more.
• Executing a complete revamp: A quick guide.
• Key mistakes to avoid: Things you wish knew sooner.

• Pick up your diary! Remodeling a house is planning as much as it is execution. Without proper planning, the outcome may not meet your expectations and bring you disappointment. Make sure you analyse where you are, what aspects you’d like to change, what can you actually change and how do you imagine it to look like after remodeling. You can create a mood board and then speak to an interior design professional to utilize your space well and ensure the elements you want are brought to life in the best way possible. Every idea looks simple on Pinterest but bringing it to life is another game altogether. Allocate funds to the project and translate the ideas you have to monetary terms to know how practical they are. Lastly, a defined goal or visualization of what your home would look like after the remodeling is important.
• Let your imagination unfold! Verbalising having an idea and what it visually looks like might be completely different things. Pick up that pen, draw a rough map of your room/space and label items like you did at school. Making sense of it all and imagining your space in the evolved space helps you translate them to reality more efficiently and also communicates them well to the contractors and the people sharing the house with you. It can get quite complicated to explain what you need which is where visuals, referencing or mood boards come into use.
• Every element speaks a story: Different parts of your home have different personalities. You could improve your kitchen by reducing the number of things on the shelves, creating hidden cabinets, upgrading to energy-efficient appliances or ensuring better space utilization. Bathrooms could be improved awith utomatic lights, vertical storage and vanities, and large mirrors to create a grandeur effect. Bedrooms can be enhanced by displacing the way items are laid out, minimising the size of the furniture, adding plants and using the effect of lights that create a soothing and calm environment for yourself. Living rooms can be improved in the seating capacity, accessories like carpets, cushions and decor items while also levelling up the aesthetics of the place.
• Design trends you don’t want to miss on: The way to go today is minimalist luxury. Eco-friendly decor is also taking a lead as people become more climate-conscious and want to reflect a piece of nature in their homes. Elaborate wallpapers with pastel colours, signifying nature are also making their way to a lot of classic but chic homes. A combination of earthy and neutral colours with vibrant, lively and bold accents makes an interesting contrast and gets your attention to exactly what you want to highlight. Sustainable woods, textured tones, and neutral layering premium tiles are increasingly being installed in homes to give a contemporary yet sophisticated feel.
• A 360-degree revamp: If you’re looking at your entire space as one big project, you have greater flexibility to move things around the way you like. Sit with a map of your home or just a walkthrough to visualize unnecessary walls/sections and spaces that could be put to better use. Open floor plans can help you reorder rooms that may exist a certain way just because you saw them like this when you started living in the house. To level up, smart installations could be added or things like circulated heating/cooling systems could be installed- things that can only be changed if you look at the space in totality. Reimagine each room and see if there is anything you’d like to change or utilize a space better.
• Things you wish you knew sooner: A lot of people allocate their best budgets and end up overspilling on their capacities and regret it later. Make sure you account for unforeseen costs at the last minute. Choose a reliable contractor preferably through a source like a friend or neighbour so you can see their work in real life before committing to them. They may verbally assure you that your ideas will be perfectly brought to life but pre-analyzing their finesse and details is a good way to check if they live up to it. Factor in for any delays in the completion of the project and start well in advance if you are remodeling your house before an occasion or event. It is good to allocate a few extra weeks mentally to the process in case there is a delay.

Remodeling your home is a medium of reflecting your personality as much as it is a task at hand and revamping your space. Make sure you stay involved at every step of the process, draw practical plans and convey your ideas clearly before the contractor begins working. It is important set your expectations right and understand what can and cannot be done within the given constraints. Prioritize spending your budget on high-value areas like living rooms, bedrooms and kitchens and do a step-by-step analysis on what you’d like to change and how. Keep in touch with design trends while staying true to a timeless aesthetic because home remodeling is not something you would do every other day. Make sure you invest your time and money wisely and create magic in your homes with your remodeling journey!

Begin with deciding the areas that you’d like to revamp, make a plan, allocate budgets, visualize the end results and get in touch with reliable contractors and discuss every element in detail before execution.

The time needed to revamp a space completely depends on the scale of your renovation. While changing a few elements in the house or a small kitchen or bathroom can take 2 to 4 weeks, larger spaces and bigger revamps can take several months. It is important to align expectations with your contractor and budget for delays as well.

Creating a budget in advance, taking multiple quotes and deciding basis a value-for-cost method of thinking can get you the best returns. Make sure you have a contingency fund for unexpected costs, breakage, or spoilage.