Unnecessary Renovation Errors

It can be said that most of the possible mistakes have already been made in the world of renovations, and the way to avoid them is not particularly complicated. What are the mines you should be careful of before embarking on the renovation adventure?

Do not measure, or measure inaccurately

The matter of measurement is critical at the millimeter level, when it comes to showers, carpentry work, and especially kitchens.

However, even choosing a sofa in the store, based on your memory and appreciation of the size of the apartment, will cause a mistake that will make your space look too crowded or too empty.

There is a very easy solution of scattering newspapers the size of the furniture on the floor in the area where you would like to place it. It is very helpful to understand the proportion.

There are more advanced means of measurement than a film (using a laser), and it is important not to be satisfied with manual and amateur measurement, but to use a skilled surveyor. It will save you a lot of money, compromises, repairs and heartache.

Even if it feels tedious to you, even when calculating the dimensions of parquet, wallpaper and pictures, this is what makes the difference between choosing an item for a home that is an accurate and harmonious size, and going out of proportion.

1. Sacrificing your comfort for visibility

The design of the handles and windows you may forget after a period of living in the house, but not how comfortable to use them.

Practicality, convenience, thinking about human engineering – all these and more how we will shape you. Apparently, many people who dreamed of a hot tub at home, in the renovation that followed replaced it because they did not take into account the difficulty of cleaning it.

The same goes for dirt that stands out on light and smooth tiles, sockets and switches placed in places that furniture interferes with getting to, and so on.

Do not rely on professionals who will often worry about their comfort and installation habits. It could very well be that you are not like everyone else, and that you have different requirements from others. If you shower with your face or back to the wall, it will affect the angle of the hand grip.

The house is yours, not that of any designer or magazine reader. The picture, will be forgotten. The long years you will be sad about the costly mistake you made, are not worth it.

Therefore, first choose practicality, and only then design. You’d be surprised, you can definitely combine the two, and you usually won’t have to choose just one of them. Nor are they always price considerations, but simply making the right decisions that take both of these considerations into account.

2. Translation results

Do not order extra of materials for the future

One day a heavy bowl will fall to the floor, water will spill on the parquet or you will find moisture in the wall that will require disassembly of panels. And what will you do then? Will you run to the showroom and find that the series is long out of stock?

Everything that is fixed in the house, should be within your reach, with enough stock for required repairs in the future. Otherwise, you will find yourself compromising on patches, or having to replace the flooring of the entire room, or living room, because you did not find matching tiles and did not worry about reserves.

3. Being too trendy in things hard to replace

Not only are there many who forget the practicality and prefer the design, there are also those who choose trends that are the latest craze, only to find that after five years they are completely façade. Remember, good design, lasts for decades. On the other hand, a trend that is too loose and obvious can get tired.

It’s okay to make a mistake on a sofa or rug, but to make a mistake in the kitchen that costs NIS 100,000 is already much more annoying. If you are not completely sure, go for something more conservative, and go wild with items that are easy and relatively inexpensive to replace.

By the way, yellow kitchen is also fine, if you are crazy about yellow, and if it does not cost you a lot of money to replace its facades if you regret it.