Dream the DREAM Home.

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Before you grab your hard hat and your home becomes a building site, you need to start dreaming about your dream home.

Just like any dream sequence, it doesn’t need to be “to scale” or make any sense. It just has to tap into your wants and needs, as they are at the core of any home improvement.

To get started, gather together the following items:

• Magazines – ones that you don’t mind tearing pages out of;
• Construction paper;
• Good pair of scissors;
• Sharpie markers in black, red and green;
• Box of crayons &/or coloured pencils;
• A scale ruler;
• Tall glass of beer or a wine cooler!

You probably think it would be easier to Google a program that creates floor plans. But, at the start of any home improvement, you really need to know what you want from each room before you can figure out locations or design, let alone HVAC, plumbing or utilities requirements.

Concentrate on one room at a time, asking yourself the following questions:

• How big do you want/need this room to be?
• What storage does it need?
• How much sunlight do you need?
• Do you want a window that opens?
• Is it a room you will use year round? In winter, do you need it to be comfortable?
• What pieces of furniture must fit into this room?
• Does the room have only one purpose, or does it have a second function?
• Is there another room you would like to connect to this room?

It is the arrangement and accessibility of its rooms that make a house into a functional home. So look into your house and assess what you should do. You may discover your wants and needs require you to finish the basement, convert a few rooms, build an addition or perhaps you have to build a whole new house.

At PROBUILT by Michael Upshall, this is how we begin to DREAM in RENOVISION®

Click here, and start planning your Dream Build/Renovation with PROBUILT.