Renovate ... without leaving anything to chance!
Rather than building your house, you preferred to buy. You have fallen in love with an old building or a house that offers great opportunities for transformation. When it comes to renovation, today everything is possible, or almost. Old huts were able to find a new cachet thanks to some small or large well-thought work. In an existing building, new spaces can be created by striking a wall or arranging the walls and furniture optimally. Ready to consider change? Here are some keys to revolutionize your home.
Set your goals and needs
A renovation, before anything else, should allow you to adapt your home to your needs or your desires. This can involve a lot of things! You can renovate to improve the energy consumption of your home, to capture more natural light, to create new spaces, different atmospheres or simply because you want to change.
A renovation, however, often requires more than just a few brushstrokes. Also, it is better to mature your project upstream and, ideally, if the changes you want to bring are consistent, be accompanied by an interior designer and professionals. Better than anyone, as a professional space planner, the architect must help you rethink your interior , redefine the functions of the rooms, according to your needs, to consider all the possibilities while trying to answer in the best way to your taste.
Because, if everything can be envisaged, if one has the creative spirit, all is not possible, feasible, feasible ... Before cutting down a wall, it is better to ensure indeed that it will not destabilize not the carrying structure of the house. Budgets, moreover, are not extensible.
We do not do what we want, as we want
Still poorly considered, because too often equated to that of decorator, the function of interior designer is essential. As a good professional, the architect must also help you in administrative procedures but also coordinate the various trades that will intervene on the site.
According to the proposed works, a permit may be required, especially if we touch the structure of the house, if we consider enlargements or redo the facade or the roof. A license defect can result, purely and simply, the work stoppage. Embarrassing. Especially if you do not know where to sleep.
See long-term
According to the project, the renovation project will be more or less pushed. An old building may require major sanitation, cellars to the frame. The more important the work, the more interesting it is to be able to establish a long-term vision.
Indeed, if you are thinking of big changes, so much to take advantage of implement or prepare the structure for all the projects, wishes, wishes envisaged. If the frame is to be redone, is not it interesting, now, to consider the development of rooms in the attic? If the south-facing wall needs to be sanitized, is it not advisable to replace a small window with a bay window that will bring natural light into the living areas? The important thing for moving forward in this kind of consequent project is therefore to be well prepared and well organized.
Considering a renovation involves first asking the right questions. These are those relating to the needs, uses, habits of those who make daily use of the house. What does everyone need? What does he want? Which spaces for which uses? Should the kitchen be limited to the preparation of food or should it also accommodate the family to eat? Do we need one or two bathrooms? For families, it is also an opportunity to consider the needs in the medium term ... Children, for example, will not be able to share the same room until their eighteen years.
Under walls and false ceilings
The number of electricity outlets, lighting should also be taken into consideration. As old false ceilings should be torn out and replaced, all electricity and lighting can be redesigned. And if you decide to get rid of the parquet or tiling, why not consider replacing the heating system by another newer and more efficient?
It is by starting from the main needs that one will be able to establish, in the best way, his project of renovation. Obviously, the tastes of the household will intervene quickly. Do we prefer open spaces or, on the contrary, cramped and more intimate rooms? Do we want a design interior and purity, where do we want something more traditional?
Improve energy efficiency
The renovation project must also improve the energy efficiency of your building. Candidates for renovation will not hesitate to consider the different possibilities that will allow them to reduce their energy consumption or, better, to produce their own energy.
The frame must be redone? This is an opportunity to effectively isolate and even consider the installation of solar panels. Why not change the frames and windows? Chassis efficiency today can significantly reduce heat loss. If you plan to renovate the facade, it could perhaps benefit from an additional insulating layer. Is it possible to place heat recovery units, to circulate the hot air better through the rooms? The array of green solutions, and their combination at the heart of your renovation project, can help you create a sustainable, healthy environment in which to live a clear conscience. In addition, public assistance to improve the energy of your home could give a boost to your budget.
However, it is not easy to navigate when you want to improve the energy efficiency of your home. It is therefore advisable, before starting to integrate all-round solutions, to proceed to a small thermal assessment, otherwise called energy audit, which, with just recommendations, will allow you to make informed choices.
Ready to break? Think about planning
Only once the project is well established can we begin to ... break to rebuild according to his needs, his tastes. Soon, you will live in an interior that suits you, but in the meantime, at work! Of course, a renovation project can spread over time. Planning your projects well and leaving the door open to various possibilities is a luxury that we will not fail to afford, provided we are well advised at the base.
Before you embark on each step of your renovation project, in the absence of a prime contractor, Be rigorous in your organization and site monitoring. Establish a precise planning of the envisaged realization, with the dated intervention of the various trades, in consultation with them. This will avoid a real imbroglio, considerable delays, anticipate the inevitable hiccups, and, because it can happen, having to start again because everything has not been done in the right order.