How do you know you if renovating is the best choice? A question we get asked daily from clients is “What should I do to my home?” Should you stay and renovate, knock over and start again or find something new?
When renovating you must always take the challenge head on! You need to think out side the box to create your dream Hamptons home. The image you’ve created in your head has to be brought to life; you must always think literally and creatively. Remember, things don’t always go to plan when you renovate, it is like peeling back layers of an onion. There is always a flow on effect so you need to be on the ball at every moment, ready to re-create. When building, however, it is very easy to create your dream Hamptons home and you can plan every aspect and have sizes as you want, make it as livable as you want, rooms where you need them and the look is fresh rather than re-faced. Building new opens up a Pandora’s box of ideas.
When creating a new home, a few things to keep in mind are how you want to live, do you like open plan or do you prefer separate rooms? Are you an indoor or outdoor person? What rooms do you spend most of your time in? What is your style? It is a huge decision that takes much consideration. I have 4 questions I always ask our clients and each of these serve to provoke their thoughts and allows them to think about things objectively.
Top 4 Questions
Once you have considered all of the above, you get to the fun part! Start looking at Instagram, Pinterest, cut out your favourite looks in magazines and start collating a mood board of images. Sometime you don’t even know what you like in the picture but it may just feel right. The feeling you get when you look at you mood board is what you are looking to achieve. When all the images are placed together you can start to see a style coming through and without even releasing, voile you have your style. No doubt if your reading this article, then your style is classic, coastal and all about the Hamptons.