How not to Improve Your Home: The Pitfalls to Avoid

Renovating, extending, improving. We Brits love our homes

If we’re not in the middle of a building project, we’re thinking about it, talking about it or reading those home interest magazines. It’s certainly a great feeling when friends step through the door and gasp in admiration at your open plan kitchen, light filled conservatory or designer bathroom.

But here’s the rub. When the builder disappears, the plaster starts to crack and the bills become unmanageable, you might be more disaster zone than show home.

So, if you’re thinking of extending, renovating or improving, be smart and listen to the organisers of the Homebuilding & Renovating Shows, who’ve put together the top mistakes to avoid.