Home is everything you want to return to. Thankfully, you can choose with great care, what exactly you want to return to. Great homes make the burden of our wakeful hours easy. They provide us a cocoon of comfort: at times pure bliss. Thus it is only befitting that we pay due attention to building a new home.
Most of us, with a different degree of ability, can help build themselves averagely good living spaces. However, very few of us know how to avoid each mistake that can compromise the quality of our homes. If you belong to the ‘few’ you can safely give this write-up a miss but others, perhaps a vast majority of readers, can seek the below-mentioned tips to build better homes for themselves.
7 mistakes you should steer clear of:
1. Not planning spaces properly
Vision of genocide is the only analogy that comes to mind. Poor space planning by your designer or architect can really kill everything a home represents. Spaces are getting ever so cramped and high-rises are looking to add vertically in absence of the horizontal spaces.
Naturally, in times of limited spaces, it becomes very important to plan properly. As a first, one should look for multi-purpose spaces; those ones which can allow the same area of the home to fulfill more than two objectives- A mini bar and a laundry room- any takers?
Make sure you have enough storage area but steer away from putting up closets almost anywhere. While it can help you store a lot many things, it certainly takes away from the visual aesthetics of a home. For instance, keep the master bedroom free of closets, pushing those in one of the bedrooms or master baths.
Understanding form, scale, and layout can also help you healthily maximize mental spaces; in other words, creating the illusion of space where none exists.
2. Lighting homes poorly
Smart lighting can so often mean the difference between effusive living spaces and dull, dead ones. You must not have any dearth of light fitting spaces in your home. Another significant addition is windows. There must be windows aplenty, in big numbers in every room.
They allow natural light to permeate into your homes thus giving it the much needed touch of Sun as well as brightness. Point to ponder- Why is LED rated so highly? It is because it replicates natural light most closely. Thus, you can understand how important is natural light to your homes. Curtailing its entry points can be among the bigger crimes a home owner can commit.
3. Ignoring the HVAC system
Molds and mildew- Well! Nothing short of hell breaking loose. This is where you have to be on a stern guard. You must also be careful about the model size of units,. Exceptionally large ones eat away precious energy and the really tiny ones fail to cool or heat the room properly (despite their best intentions one must say).
4. Poor placement of bedroom
Ideally, the bedroom should be farthest possible to the “scream hubs” of the home. A sense of noiselessness helps any bedroom and it is always a smart option to build it away from areas of high footfall. It is also recommended not to build bedroom spaces that share walls with living areas. And yes- must be away from garages (come what may!)
5. Poor placement of kitchen
Heard about a family which had to walk through its entire home in order to put groceries in the right place? So the colossal mistake you must not commit is to keep kitchens in the farthest corners (what’s true for a bedroom is just not done for a kitchen). Build them close to the heart of the home so that you can reach them from every possible area.
6. Poor placement of garage
A garage must be proximal to the mudroom and kitchen area. This way, any dirt is restricted to these areas and the entire home is saved the cleanliness drill every so often.
7. Allowing too Much advice into your ears
Somehow, even if you are a novice, your heart knows which home decor strings to pull. Every homeowner instinctively knows how to build a home best. Yes, research, recommendations and genuine expert advice definitely work but too much of it can simply set you astray. So the best is to follow your own instinct and set your designers to work. After all, the heart is a lonely hunter.
Follow these 7 tips and chances are that you will end up liking what your designer puts up as the final product.
Do you have any mistakes you will avoid next time you build a house?
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