Renovating Your Home: If You’re On A Budget, What Should You Focus On?

If you want to renovate your home in the near future, your budget is going to dictate just how much work you can get done. Sure, you’ve saved up over the past few years and you’ve already made some changes to reduce the bills, but renovations are notorious for needing more money than you’ve got available! So for the sake of your budget, you need to focus on renovating rooms you’re going to get the most use and style out of. Check out the list of our top three picks for that.

The Kitchen

The kitchen is the most obvious place for renovation and it absolutely should be a priority. You use the kitchen more than any other room in the home, with most people both cooking and eating in there, using it to socialise when people come round, and clean ups usually take more time than any other room in the home.

As such, use your budget wisely on the kitchen. Make it as spacious as you can, be sure to keep it up to date over time, and think about turning into a multi-use space. If you have a large kitchen, it can be part family room, part dining room, or even part office if you want to work from home.

The Bathroom

The bathroom deserves some regular TLC from the homeowner, but if you’re looking to renovate right now, make sure the bathroom is at the top of your list. You can invest in Bathroom Suites fairly affordably, rip out all the old fixtures and replace them, and your space will suddenly look and feel a lot more clean, relaxing, and usable.

You can also easily retile the space, add in a new backsplash, and make sure there’s plenty of storage for all your soaps, candles, and towels. Voila – a brand new bathroom that feels bigger, has more function, and is a space you can be proud of. You can also get this work done in around a week and you might not even need more than £1000 to manage it all!

The Attic

The attic is an untapped space in most households. You keep a lot up there, usually in packing boxes that you never quite got round to emptying, and as a result the space is just a waste of storage. Getting up there to clear it out, assess the room on offer, and then thinking about converting it is always a great idea.

Loft conversions are one of the biggest value adders on the market. You gain an extra usable room in the home, you can add heating and cooling and skylights, and if there’s room for a staircase on your upper landing, you can even think about providing easy access. It sounds like a lot of work (and it is!), but there’s a lot of functionality to be found here!

If you’ve got a pretty stringent home renovation budget, make sure you’re using it properly on projects like these.