Time-Sucking Remodeling Mistakes You’ll Wish You Could Erase

You’ve got your remodel scheduled right down to the housewarming. You’ve even built in time for any unexpected disasters lurking in your walls. But what about potential delays you, as the homeowner, might cause because you don’t know you’re screwing up?
It’s that old axiom: You don’t know what you don’t know.
Until now.
Here’s a list of time-sucking mistakes homeowners often make (so you don’t have to).

Designing Before Budgeting

You think you can afford that luxurious marble countertop — until you talk to the fabricator. It’s $2,000 over budget, and there’s no room to squeeze. If you’re already past the design phase, that’s a brutal discovery requiring a serious re-think — and extra time you don’t have at this stage of the game.
“There are an infinite number of design possibilities, but as soon as you pick a budget, seven-eighths are gone,” says Charles Rinek, who owns a remodeling and custom construction firm in Palm Coast, Fla. “Concentrate on the eighth that is appropriate with your budget.”
Know your budget. Then follow your dreams.
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