Living in an old house can be a great pleasure. Sometimes though, the familiar can morph into the boring. It can be tempting to think that your old home will always remain the same, that the atmosphere created by its design is built-in and immovable. However, there are plenty of ways that you can make your house feel like a new environment without abandoning its structure or tearing it apart completely.
Here are four ways you can make your house feel new this year:
Extend Your Loft
Loft extensions give you more space to work with, really helping to give your house a new feeling. The simplest loft conversions still add plenty of space. Many homes in Australia are perfect for loft conversions, with sloped roofs that can be built on at a right angle with very little disruption to your life. More space in the home often opens up the possibility for new design solutions. Don’t just decorate your new loft conversion in the same way as your old house. Let it become a new start!
Renovate Your Bathroom
On average, we spend up to 1.5 years in the bathroom during the course of our lives. The bathroom is a truly important space in any household. It is where you relax in the bath, shave, brush your teeth, and, well, go to the bathroom.
Renovating your bathroom can make a huge change to the general atmosphere of your home. One of the most drastic but totally worthwhile ways in which you can change an old and worn-out bathroom is to convert it into a wet room. Wet room bathrooms don’t contain any shower bases or conventional flooring. Instead, the entire room is tiled so that it can be fully drenched without causing any damage. Wet rooms are accessible and stylish, allowing for bold designs to be tiled into them from floor to ceiling.
Relaxing in a stand-alone bath or brushing your teeth over a daring granite feel sink can feel like unusually luxurious pursuits. Installation of these features can be a little bit disruptive but completely change your bathroom experience.
Lots of bathroom renovation tasks can be done yourself if you are a practical person, but it is strongly advisable to consult a professional when completing an extensive renovation. Here in Australia, plenty of firms offer bespoke bathroom renovation solutions that include consultation on how best to plumb and insulate your flashy new palace of relaxation. Bathroom renovations Perth are undertaken by companies such as Kitchen Capital that have plenty of experience in installing baths, sinks, and wet room conversions.
Go Open Plan
It used to be the case that homeowners coveted the number of rooms they had. After all, the more rooms a house had, the more it was worth. Well, that fact doesn’t quite ring true anymore. Converting kitchens and living rooms into open plan spaces actually add value to many homes.
The reason? Well, open plan spaces can feel far more welcoming and airy than small, cluttered rooms. They also give you plenty of options for letting lots of light in from the outside world. Modern interior design values space and light in the home, and creating an open plan living space can really help you bring these things into your home. Not all houses can be given open-plan conversions easily. You’ll need to consult a specialist builder, who will be able to tell you which of your walls are supporting or contain sensitive electrical or gas pipes. Some people are lucky enough to have thin dividing walls between their lower living areas. These walls can be easily knocked through to create a spacious open plan area. You’ll still need to consult with a trained builder unless you feel very confident in your plastering and structural repair skills.
Open plan areas have lots of potential for the installation of breakfast bars, dining areas, and social spaces.
A Lick of Paint
Sometimes the simplest renovations are the best. Giving your house a new lick of paint can grant your home a new lease of life. Interior designers typically recommend replacing stale old wallpaper with bright, neutral paint. Bold patterns are becoming very popular with homeowners who want to give their old houses a bold new makeover. Be careful where you apply patterns, though. You don’t want to get a headache every time you take a seat in your living room!
