Home Renovation Archives

5 Tips For Installing Gutters and Downpipes

Building a home is never complete without a roof. It shelters the whole property and protects the house from heavy rains and other weather conditions. While the roof is truly essential, you mustn’t forget to prioritize the use of gutters and downpipes as they’re responsible for keeping the rainwater away from the house’s structure, allowing it to be sturdy and well-built.

4 Essential Steps to Restoring Your Home after a Flood

Natural disasters are unpredictable. It can happen anytime, anywhere, and possibly at the most unexpected time of your life. One of these disasters is the flood. That said, you should always be prepared and know the essential actions to take before, during, and after this calamity, especially if you live in an area prone to flooding.

Easy-to-build DIY garage shelves

Our garages were once simply where our cars lived, but today, you’ll see very few garages used to house the family 4-wheel. Indeed, many garages have been transformed into extra bedrooms, hobby rooms, laundry rooms and, in some cases, entire apartments. If, however, your garage is a good old-fashioned working and storage area then you’re probably finding it all a little bit cluttered?

How to Renovate Your Garage to be the Ultimate Man Cave

Since the dawn of time, guys have needed a spot where they can just be dudes. It’s just a fact of nature: a man needs a man cave. It’s a place to hang out with friends, watch the big games or brainstorm new startup ideas.

But deciding on exactly what needs to be done to turn that extra space into a dude-ready man haven can be tricky – what exactly should I do to make sure the boys are able to chill out in my certified man space? Check out this handy list of man-friendly room makeover tips to get your lad space in tip-top shape.

Buying a New House Vs Renovating Existing Home – Which is Better?

While a shiny and new home sounds nice in default, there are more factors for you to consider. In this post, we listed the most likely pros and cons that you ought to keep in mind when determining if you should buy a new house or renovate an existing home.

The Ultimate Guide to Home Improvement and Maintenance

Building or owning your own house can be a very fulfilling experience. But like everything else in this universe, our home also requires periodic maintenance and improvements. Maintaining a home and improving it in certain ways over a period of time can help you increase the value of your home. But if you ignore the maintenance, then the home is going to depreciate faster than you can imagine.

Home improvement and maintenance sounds like a complicated thing to do. But trust me; there are simple yet effective ways to improve and maintain your sweet home. If you have bought or build a new home of your own and you are wondering about how to improve and maintain the house in cost-effective manner, then I have got you covered. Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to Home Improvement and Maintenance

Home Maintenance Tips and Ideas to Increase the Value of Your Home

Having a home of your own is amazing, but to become a good home owner is a little complicated. It takes a lot to build or purchase your dream home, but it is even harder to keep it up to date for years. It requires regular and continuous maintenance and only then you can maintain the beauty of your home. I am sure you are maintaining your home properly and even if the value of your home get depreciated finance wise, you are ensuring that the value of your home is increasing in real life. But if you are clueless and wondering about how to maintain and increase the value of your home, then here’s the post worth checking. Today in this post, I am sharing 12 incredible home maintenance tips and ideas that’ll help you to increase the value of your home. Continue reading Home Maintenance Tips and Ideas to Increase the Value of Your Home

Quick Kitchen Makeover on a Budget – Here’s How to Get It Right

You kitchen should not looking boring, for this is the place where you spend good amount of time, preparing food for your family. No matter how well furnished your kitchen is, over a period of time, you may feel the need to do a quick makeover. But the moment we think of kitchen makeover, the budget comes in our mind. But did you know that it’s actually possible to do a quick kitchen makeover on a minimum budget? Well, I have been there and done that. It’s been over 6 years when I bought my home and did end to end interior designing in the entire house. Naturally, the kitchen used to look a bit old and it needed the makeover. My friend ‘Neeta’ who is an interior consultant, suggested a few quick and simple kitchen makeover ideas which can be implemented even on a budget. And I am happy to share those ideas with you. If you are planning to do a quick kitchen makeover on a budget, then here’s the post you can’t afford to miss. Continue reading Quick Kitchen Makeover on a Budget – Here’s How to Get It Right

Floor Tiles for Living Rroom: How to choose best floor tiles

While designing our brand new home or while renovating it, the room we focus the most is our living room. Why? Obviously because it’s the room that we first enter after entering our house. Hence, we surely need to decorate and design it in the best way possible. What most of us focus while designing the living room is on the walls, decorations, setting of the furniture, and etc. But what about the floors? Don’t you think it is equally important? Even if you have a well decorated living room, a poor quality floor tiles will turn down the room’s complete look. Therefore, it is important to choose the appropriate floor tiles for living room, which not only looks good but has longevity and something that can be maintained easily. Continue reading Floor Tiles for Living Rroom: How to choose best floor tiles

How to Hire an Architect in India for Home Construction and Remodeling

Everyone love their home, especially when they have invested money on building it. But with the passing time it is very natural for anyone to get bored, and think about developing or remodeling their current home. Are you bored as well, and want to develop your residence? Then all you need is an efficient architect who will inspect your home, understand your desires and then work accordingly to remodel your home. But you cannot randomly hire an architect for remodeling projects. Choosing an architect for remodeling isn’t a very easy task; though it doesn’t require any physical labor, but you’ll have to use your brains tactfully and analyze the one that is perfect. There are plenty of things that you’ll have to know, verify and then choose an architect.

Tips to hire an architect in India for home construction

Employing somebody to remodel your most precious possession is always going to keep you stressed. And you are also going to have a neck-wrecking relationship with the architects, because once they start planning and remodeling your home, you can’t stop them. But, if you want to remodel your home well, you will require an architect who is worthy enough to transform your home much better than its current model. But how would you know whether the architect is worthy or not? Don’t worry. Below are some ways to choose an architect before hiring them for remodeling projects.

Tips to hire an architect in India for your construction projects

Here are few things that you’ll have to look for in any architects before you choose one to work on a remodeling project in India.

1. Consult before choosing

If you haven’t ever remodeled your home before and have recently decided to do so, then consult your family member, friends, and colleagues and ask them for referrals. Ask for referrals to the ones who have already remodeled their home, and was pretty much satisfied with their experience. If they were satisfied with their remodeling experience, then consult and connect to the architects they had chosen for their remodeling project. Referrals from a near one gives you a bit of satisfaction, and builds a trust within you.

2. Research about the architect

If you are looking for the architects yourself, then you have to do plenty of research on them before you choose the one. Actually, you need to search for more than two or three architects, research on all of them and finally compare them and choose the one that completely fits all your requirements and expectations. The more you research, the more you get to know about the architects.

3. Ask for credentials of the potential Architects

Before you choose or while choosing architects, one important thing that you’ll have to do is check their credentials. Until and unless you check their credentials you’ll never understand how credible they are. So check their qualifications and achievements, because these things will give you a fair idea about their credibility.

4. Ask about license

Before choosing any services or service provider one must definitely ask them about their license. Unless an architect is licensed, you shouldn’t hire them at any cost! A license is nothing but a proof that the person is professional, expert and has experience. Hence, never give away your house in the hands of an architect’s who has no license and proof that he is worthy to work on any remodeling projects.

5. Check previous works

Checking an architect’s previous works is really important. If they can present to you a portfolio of their previous works, then you can see their work, analyze their creativity and potential to think out of the box. Therefore, if you want your home or any other project to be completely different from others, then check their portfolio and choose the one who is better.

6. Check the rates

Budget is something that worries everyone. Before taking out the wallets, one has to think several times and then finally take out the money. Similarly in case of hiring architects we need to know their charges. We also need to question them about the basis on which they charge. One thing that’s for sure is, great architects might cost a little more than an average one, but the amount of value added to your project could be worth it. Therefore ask the architects about their charges, and then choose accordingly. You can later negotiate too.

Key take aways

So before you appoint an architect for your remodeling projects, do look after certain things that are listed above. If you keep these six things in mind and accordingly choose an architect, then your remodeling projects will surely be successfully remodeled into something really ravishing. And along with a successful remodeling, you will feel that you have invested on an architect who is truely worthy. The client-architect relationship has to be very personal involving discussions of habits, hobbies, and tastes. So research, scrutinizes and choose the one that is best, so that you don’t repent later after pouring money designing and furnishing your home.