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How Do You Bring Your Home Up To Scratch?

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Whether you've just moved into a fixer-upper or your home is starting to lose a little bit of its luster, there are plenty of situations where you might look around your home and feel like it's just not up to the standard that you would like. For a lot of people, this can be incredibly frustrating. After all, a new paint job or rearranging the furniture is one thing, but when you're faced with a home that really needs bringing back to life, that's a whole other big job. With that in mind, here are some things that you can do to make it just a little bit easier to bring your home up to scratch.

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Plan carefully

 

The biggest mistake that you can make when trying to bring your home up to scratch is to try and wing it. If you do that then you're going to have jobs half-finished and others finished to the bare minimum standard. You need to make sure that you make a clear list of exactly what it is you need to do and that can give you the chance to order and prioritize the various tasks in the best way possible. Being able to take a methodical approach to things is always going to make a task of this size far easier than it would be if you just ran in guns blazing.

 

Make those repairs

 

Pretty much every home has those repairs. The ones that aren't incredibly urgent right now and you just haven't quite gotten round to dealing with. Whether it's something tiny like a hole in the wall from when you took down some shelves to something more significant like dealing with damp in certain areas of your home. It's easy to put these kinds of things off for a long time simply because they're not that urgent. But doing that is pretty much guaranteed to just give you more work to do in the long run.

 

Don't forget the hidden spots

 

When working on your home, it's incredibly easy to miss certain areas simply because they're hidden. The term “out of sight, out of mind” applies incredibly well to a lot of the issues in many homes. Whether it's having your floors deep cleaned or hiring a home duct cleaning service, paying attention to the parts of your home that you wouldn't otherwise give much thought too can make your home not only a more pleasant place to be but also a safer one as well. A lot of the biggest problems with many homes start out hidden and only become visible when things get serious.

 

The reality is that nothing is going to change in your home unless you're willing to take that crucial first step. Sitting around and feeling frustrated by it isn't going to get you anywhere. The best thing you can do is just to get started, even if you have to really fight to convince yourself to do it. Once you get started you'll find that that was the hardest part of the entire job.

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  1. Eric says

    September 19, 2019 at 10:18 am

    Thanks for the great post! These are also helpful tips when you’re looking to sell your house.

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    • admin says

      October 10, 2019 at 5:44 am

      Eric, yes, I agree. Thanks for reading.

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