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7 big renovation mistakes (and how to avoid them)

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October 22, 2013
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7 big renovation mistakes (and how to avoid them)

Thorough planning and preparation will help you avoid most renovation hassles – but there’s always some barely-significant thing to overlook when you’re renovating. A few millimetres of mis-measurement here, a lapse in judgement there… Anyone who’s gone through a rough renovation can testify to this – and sometimes, to just how big and expensive a ‘small’ problem can become!

We’ve put together a list of a few of the problems we hear about quite commonly from seasoned renovators – but we’d love to hear yours too.


Thorough planning and preparation will help you avoid most renovation hassles – but there’s always some barely-significant thing to overlook when you’re renovating. A few millimetres of mis-measurement here, a lapse in judgement there… Anyone who’s gone through a rough renovation can testify to this – and sometimes, to just how big and expensive a ‘small’ problem can become!

We’ve put together a list of a few of the problems we hear about quite commonly from seasoned renovators – but we’d love to hear yours too.

If you could give one piece of advice to someone renovating for the first time, what would it be?

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