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Before you start a DIY Project - Think Aesthetic

When embarking on a DIY project, the first thing you want to do is jump in with a hammer and start making mess! But this usually means you will end up shopping for the elusive "money tree".

In other words, leaping before you have planned can be very costly!

There are many questions to be asked, and these can be grouped into four areas:

Practical, Budgetary, Aesthetic and Maintenance

Aesthetic

Do you have items of furniture, artwork, carpets, that have to worked around, or which could be the basics of your scheme?

Save racking you brains for a place to start, think about what you already have around you that you love, and work from there.
Does the exterior of your building, set the parameters for your interior?

You don't have to follow the exterior, especially if you are in an apartment complex, but if you have a Victorian Villa for example it is often nice to keep some of the detailing even if you are updating the interior.

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It is good to keep some of the detail from the house following through into the interior as shown here with the cabinetry emulating the window panes.

Do you have a tendency towards any colors? Do you hate any colors? Also the intensity of color.

Get this down on paper now as once you get into a project you will be so busy worrying about everything else that your common sense may goes out the window and you don't pay enough attention to the finishing ie the color. Also your love for a color may not be the same as the rest of the family who have to live in the house. Paint up some large pieces of card and prop them up where you will be renovating, you will start to get used to them and wil soon figure out which ones work in your space and which ones don't.

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