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Natasha Brinsmead

5 Things People Always Regret Skipping During a Renovation — They Might Seem Small but They Make All the Difference

Mid-century living room with window shutters.

It's a funny thing, but given how big of an undertaking a house renovation is, both from a cost perspective as well as in terms of the amount of disruption it can cause to daily life, a huge number of homeowners find themselves at the end of their project feeling rueful about all the things they wish they had included but didn't.

Home renovation projects can be stressful and messy affairs, and this might go some way towards explaining why it is so common for people to miss out features, fixtures, and details that they later regret. They rush through the stages, keen to get the disruption over with, and may also feel overwhelmed by how much they are spending, so try to scrimp in the wrong places, only to have to put their mistakes right later down the line — at extra cost.

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