Don’t Move! Improve your Home for Better Results!
27 February 2024
Did you catch last week’s Love It or List It Australia episode? Homeowners Brett & Anita tasked show hosts with presenting two options – find a new ‘bigger’ home that would better fit their family, or undergo renovations to re imagine their existing home in a way that works for them. From a betting perspective, it felt like the new home option was a sure thing – their home seemed far too small and cramped with a bigger home sounding like the obvious solution.
Their problems with their space were some of the most common issues we hear – lack of flow, wasted space, lack of natural light, and the dreaded toilet / bathroom directly off the living room. Designer Neale Whitaker of team ‘Love It’ uses his expertise and experience to make key changes to the floor plan that remedy the above issues and completely transforms the feeling of the house – and even more impressive, he does so without extending the footprint!
Adding skylights, reworking entry points, and optimizing storage spaces are just some of the tools used to transform their existing home into the space they always dreamed it could be! And although team ‘List It’ put up some strong contenders’, team ‘Love It’ took the win and won us over for good.
Should you move or renovate?
If this sounds like a familiar story and you have some or all of the same struggles in your home consider playing your own game of ‘love it or list it’. Renovating first and deciding whether to love it or list afterward creates great television but is not so practical in real life. Instead why not utilize Pzazz Design’s
3D design services to explore and finesse your design?
We use our experience and expertise to work with you and your floor plan to create a design that meets your brief. We then develop this into a 3D digital model that gives you photorealistic imagery of how your transformed space will look and feel. This combined with a budget estimate or quote from your local Pzazz Builder will give you all the info you need to decide – am I better off to improve the home I have, or find a new one?
3 Reasons to Renovate Rather than Move
More often than not we see customers deciding to stay where they are and there is good reasoning behind this:
1- Renovations are customized to your wants and needs, the chances of finding a new home that has exactly what you want and doesn’t need any work are slim.
2- Moving homes is expensive and disruptive; consider how a different location will impact your daily life and your connections to family and community.
3 - If you have been in your home a while the value has likely appreciated making financing your renovation that much easier, and by renovating you add even more value to your home effectively meaning the renovations pay for themselves.
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