Cole Harris
Home improvement projects are, by definition, improvements made to your home. Not all projects are created equal though and some ill-advised undertakings can actually end up impacting negatively on your home, especially if you might be selling and moving on in the future.
Glossy home magazines are sometimes the culprit here. They print a piece about some hot home improvement project or another and homeowners try to copy it, not realizing that what works in a fancy photo studio is not going to work in their home. Here are a few examples of home improvement trends that you might want to avoid;
Stadium Sized Kitchens – Over the last few years these pictures of stadium sized kitchens have kept cropping up. Suddenly it seems that in the eyes of some designers if you do not have room in your kitchen to host an episode of Masterchef its not a good cooking space.
But before you go looking for a tradesman to knock out your kitchen walls and extend it into the garden, stop and think. How practical would that really be? Wouldn’t it be easier if you had a kitchen that allowed the cook to pivot easily from the roast in the oven to the vegetables in the fridge without having to put on a pair of Rollerblades? The best kitchens have a spacious feeling while still being practical to work in and a good kitchen specialist can help you achieve that perfect balance.
Badly Placed Porches – Adding a porch to your home is a great idea. A nice place to sit and enjoy the great outdoors, even nicer if you screen it in to keeps the biting bugs at bay. The problem with many porches though is where people choose to add them – right in front of the lounge.
Now thew homeowner has a great new porch but now in many cases the view from the lounge is completely ruined. All of that wonderful natural light that used to flood the room is gone and peering out of the window loses all its joy when all you see is a darkened space full of lawn furniture.
