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Home Remodeling Coaches – Three Ways DIY Remodelers Save Big Money Using a Home Remodeling Coach

Are you thinking of remodeling your home? Do you plan to manage the project yourself? DIY (do-it-yourself) remodelers can save money doing things themselves but there is a catch. What if you miss something? What you don’t know could hurt you.

“But, I’m a DIYer, I can’t afford to hire someone to help me manage this!”

Too often in life we focus on the cost of services over their benefits. We bemoan the cost of an accountant when we should value the tax savings and time freedom we are gaining. The question really should be: What is this expense going to save me in the long run? For most people, the truth is, they can’t afford not to hire a coach.

What Is a Home Remodeling Coach?

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Tips For A Successful Kitchen Home Improvement Project

Next to bathroom home improvements, kitchen home improvements can provide the best return on investments for improving the value of your home – where every dollar spent in the bathroom increases home sale price by about $5, nearly every dollar spent in the kitchen increases home sale price by about $3. As kitchen home improvements can range from the simple to the extravagant, this is something that needs to be targeted carefully.

First, decide what you dislike about your current kitchen. It may have a truly horrible work flow, with counters and appliances set around in odd locales making it hard to work productively. Maybe you want to have an island counter for staging food preparation, or maybe you’ve developed a deep aversion to harvest gold or want more shelf space to work with.

If your desire for kitchen home improvements is simple, the first and often times most often overlooked aspect to try is refinishing the kitchen cabinets. Take a moment to consider this – if your kitchen is too dark, sanding down the finish off your cabinets, installing maple or light oak trim and a new varnish can often be done in under a week, and without expensive contractors coming in. (You may have to eat out for a week while everything is curing…) The best part about it is that as anyone who’s ever gotten contractor quotes on a kitchen can attest, getting professionally fitted cabinets is expensive. Everything has to be custom fitted, and lathed and put together, and budget can get blown out the window, and fast.

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How to Make Your Kitchen Renovation Project a Success

If you are even thinking about selling your home and decide to speak with different realtors, chances are you’ll hear the same question over and over: “How new are your kitchen and bathroom?” In order to get a comparison for your home, something on which to base the price, they must assess the state of these two essential rooms.

Whether or not you want to sell, renovation projects always make a home more livable, more comfortable — at the end of the day, a home to which you want to return. Because the concept of home is really a psychological state, you want to tuck away as many uncomfortable aspects as possible. The bathrooms of your house can be a little tricky to handle, especially if you want to save some money and get the project going with minimal paid help. Some home improvements in the kitchen are possible on your own, if you can handle a paintbrush and have some experience. Refacing the cabinets, for example, is a way to upgrade and improve considerably without a wholesale change.

Instead of investing in a new product, you simply strip away the surface and keep the interior as it is. Of course, this line of attack is not advisable if your cabinets are truly not presentable when they are opened. However, if normal wear only is evident within, you can clean and refinish. Outside, adding a wood veneer will add the luster and look of a new product. Pick a color that will enhance the overall scheme of your kitchen.

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