How to Design Your Own Dream Home?

Raseel Gujral
by Raseel Gujral
If you’ve been considering remodeling your home, then this will surely require proper planning and execution. In the first place it’s quite difficult to renovate or remodel a space when you’re actually using it. So any innovative design will fail in execution if there’s an absence of a proper plan. Therefore, to plan and design your dream home effectively, here’s what you need to do:
1) Start picturing your dream house.
It’s quite possible that being the owner of the house, you might be picturing some interesting lifestyle designs or innovative designs for your home. Having a vision helps to kick start the project of remodeling. You can start visiting some of the homes in your neighborhood to get an idea of how different spaces can be used. Collect ideas from magazines, the internet and various websites to get a picture in your mind. Remember that you’re not constructing a new space, rather you’re using the pre-built space. So this increases your homework.
2) Start organizing
Visualizing and picturing your dream home is good, but the next step is to start organizing everything. Prepare a list of things that you would like to change in your home. Pen down how the new look should be. Do you wish to have traditional settings or do you want a modern look? Dedicate some time in describing the changes in terms of structure, wall colors and textures to be used, furniture to be used or replaced and the use of lightings. Once you’ve compiled a complete list of things, it will be easy to convey it to the contractor or interior designer who’ll undertake the work of remodeling. Your contractor will help you in lots of ways and contribute his/her ideas as well in shaping the final design.
3) Prepare budget
Perhaps the most crucial aspect of remodeling. Without a proper budget, you can’t have anything implemented. Preparing a budget would help in knowing how much money can be spent on a particular portion of the house. Say for example, you might be ready to spend more on the master bedroom than on the guest room due to their usage. A budget allocation will decide what all can be used to create what you desire.
4) Finalize everything
Now that you know what you want and have a proper budget, you need to sit down to discuss everything from start to finish with the contractor or interior designer. Make sure to get an idea on how much time the entire project will take, so that you keep yourself available during the renovation period.
5) Final Advice
Once things start getting on track, conduct inspections from time to time. In case you discover some issues, you can stop the work there itself and rectify the execution in the manner as decided earlier. Always remember that this is your idea of a dream home and nothing in it should be a compromise.
About Author:
Raseel Gujral is the owner of Casa Paradox (http://www.casaparadox.com/) and a leading lifestyle designer in India. She skillfully orchestrates her sense of style into various elements of design in all her projects, creating an environment that is reflective of sophistication yet vibrant persona. Her designs are all about magnificence, extravaganza and grandeur.
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