Many of you may be a proud home owner but how many of you really built your home from the ground to the up? Not a lot or many only a handful of people. But if you still did home improvements then carry on reading. When you first decide on whether or not if you want to improve your home the best decision you can and could make here is from the start.

From the moment you see your home before you’ve even bought it you should have a vision if you want to expand your home. Because you want to really reap the benefits of an expansion to your home and you can only do this when you have young kids so that they can to enjoy a bigger and a better home.

Once you decide you want to expand your home you then go onto decide how big you want it and how many additional bedrooms you will have. The best thing to do here is call an architect because these professional people draw people’s homes for a living and they can give you the best advice on how big to do the extension and how to get the maximum space in the new building.

You should also start looking for a good builder. By a good builder I mean a builder that has done projects that you can see and you can then talk to other project owners and get feedback of them to see how the builder was. There has been in recent times of cowboy builders and although these sorts of builders are cheap it’s not worth the time chasing them and the stress they leave afterwards is something I can’t begin to think.

When talking to the prospected builders you should outline that you will not pay upfront and only weekly. This ensures that if something has not gone according to the plan the builders can’t run away with your money. So let’s think that the builders have now built what we call in the industry as the shell. You then need to plaster the whole house and need to buy plasterboards and need to find a good plasterer. These sorts of tradesmen don’t come cheap, let me tell you. Quite literally because it’s a skill that not a lot of builders can learn. You’ve either got to have the hand or you don’t. You need to invest in a good plasterer because it will help so much on the decoration part of the job.

So let’s say you have the extension built and the decoration is done and you’ve got a great looking kitchen and bathroom.

The next daunting task is persuading your other half in what bathroom mixer taps you need for your bathroom. This is the hardest thing because one partner always wants something different for their personal needs without telling the other partner what it is. The male partner may want to buy something cheap and cheerful saving his back pocket but the female partner may require something more extravagant so that they can show it off to their friends to show how their home was built and what it has become.