While most people can’t afford to live a completely luxurious life, many can still have enough money for the essentials while splurging on a single luxury thing every few years. Some people will purchase a high-end luxury car; perhaps they’ll use their money to get an old painting that they love restored. Others will spend their money on something that will last a lifetime. They will have their home, or a part of it, renovated luxuriously. Not many people know where to start with this. Let’s dive into our guide and go over how this can be used to make your own dream home.
Assessing Your Needs and Wants
It’s very important to write down everything that you need from your new luxury renovation, and anything that isn’t 100% necessary but that you’d really like having. Most of the time when you have ideas and plans for a project such as this they will be an incredible mess in your head, so you will need to write them down in order to actually go through them and verify what is realistic and what isn’t. This is why separating all of your ideas into needs and wants is a good idea. This way you have a shorter list of things to eliminate if they aren’t realistic instead of having to go through your needs as well, those should be taken care of already.
Take Your Location into Consideration
One of the most important things to consider when going for a large and/or expensive renovation is the fact that your location really matters. There can be massive differences in material prices, labor prices, local construction laws, and various other things between two different places. Some French cities may have very strict laws, while for example in terms of home renovation in Calgary, it is a lot more relaxed and may even have better prices than other places. Make sure to do your research and understand all of the laws you need to be compliant with and ensure that you are aware of any other limiting factors that may be in play.
Hiring the Right Team
This isn’t something that you can do on your own, which is why you’ll need to hire some contractors to actually do the work for you. Of course, pretty much every place on earth has many to choose from which can complicate things. The main traits you want to be looking for are experience with renovations or related work, transparency in their communications, good reviews either from people you know or people online (both are ideal), and of course that they’re within your budget. The last part may not be as important when you’re splurging on a luxury renovation but it’s still something to keep in mind when you’re already running so many comparisons between different teams and people, might as well compare that too while you’re at it.
Designing the Space
Another part that you likely may not be able to do yourself, so you’ll need to collaborate with a designer to actually put the concept on paper and be able to present the contractors with it. Discuss your needs and wants with the designer and they will likely be able to give you a good plan for things. You can also discuss other details like adding certain luxury materials in some places and we’d recommend using this time to ask them any other questions about things that you could do with the renovation while you’re at it.
Incorporating Luxury Features
Considering that you’re doing a luxury renovation you may as well add some other luxury features that could add a lot of quality of life to your home and make things simpler. There are various things that fall into this category, but some of the most popular ones include adding smart home features and integrating everything from your lights to the sound system with it. Perhaps you don’t like the sound of that, maybe you’d instead like to get some custom-made furniture. You can get some beautiful, incredibly well-built designs out of the highest-quality materials in order to make your home feel even more comfortable and ensure that everything is made to measure as it should be.
Conclusion
Luxury renovations aren’t easy on the wallet, but they also aren’t easy on the mind either considering how many different things you need to take into account before you can even get started with the process itself. Hopefully, our guide has helped you more easily do this, and perhaps even made you consider something that you may have missed.
