10 Signs it’s Time to Stop Procrastinating About Renovating
You’re full of big plans for your home, but is chronic indecision stopping you from making progress?
Are you prone to thinking about decorating decisions for months, often without getting anything done? Do you fear messing up your home if you act impulsively? Yes? Then you may be letting procrastination hamper your progress. Renovation requires impetus, as well as considered choices. And unless you’re particularly disastrous with DIY, most wrong decisions can be reversed – walls can be repainted and furniture can be returned or sold – so there’s no excuse for letting fear hold you back.
Put off the to-do list for a few more minutes, however, to see if you recognise any of these warning signs of procrastination, then let these beautiful – and finished – spaces inspire you to finally take action.
Put off the to-do list for a few more minutes, however, to see if you recognise any of these warning signs of procrastination, then let these beautiful – and finished – spaces inspire you to finally take action.
You’re drowning in samples
The sea of swatches taking up every inch of wall space is making your home resemble a 3D quilted blanket. You know it’s time to bin the testers and move on to full-size paint pots, but what if that grey really is too blue? Perhaps you need one or two more samples just to make sure…
Want the perfect finish with paint? Check out these tricks of the trade
The sea of swatches taking up every inch of wall space is making your home resemble a 3D quilted blanket. You know it’s time to bin the testers and move on to full-size paint pots, but what if that grey really is too blue? Perhaps you need one or two more samples just to make sure…
Want the perfect finish with paint? Check out these tricks of the trade
You need a new bathroom
Despite everyone’s best efforts to slow the decline, your bathroom is disassembling in the manner of a clown car. More tiles pop off the walls each day, and flushing the toilet now requires full cistern access and a coat hanger.
Planning a new bathroom? Here are 10 design don’ts you need to avoid
Despite everyone’s best efforts to slow the decline, your bathroom is disassembling in the manner of a clown car. More tiles pop off the walls each day, and flushing the toilet now requires full cistern access and a coat hanger.
Planning a new bathroom? Here are 10 design don’ts you need to avoid
Your windows are in need of attention
All of your curtains resemble either too-short trousers or pooling bell-bottoms. You’re in the process of choosing between hemming the old ones, replacing them with shutters or ordering blinds, but it’s taking longer than you imagined to fully commit to any of these solutions. Maybe the bare window/industrial warehouse look could work in a country cottage after all?
All of your curtains resemble either too-short trousers or pooling bell-bottoms. You’re in the process of choosing between hemming the old ones, replacing them with shutters or ordering blinds, but it’s taking longer than you imagined to fully commit to any of these solutions. Maybe the bare window/industrial warehouse look could work in a country cottage after all?
You never finish anything
Each room in your house reveals a different, long-abandoned DIY project – from armchairs in need of reupholstering to shelves still in their packaging. In fact, tackling ‘the unfinished project list’ has become something of a project in itself.
Each room in your house reveals a different, long-abandoned DIY project – from armchairs in need of reupholstering to shelves still in their packaging. In fact, tackling ‘the unfinished project list’ has become something of a project in itself.
Your clothes are homeless
Due to chronic indecision, you never did decide between built-in wardrobes or freestanding cupboards, leaving you stuck with the clothes rails you bought on impulse when you first moved in. You don’t dust them as often as required (which is hourly), and have started to experience worrying flashbacks to your second-year uni bedroom.
Due to chronic indecision, you never did decide between built-in wardrobes or freestanding cupboards, leaving you stuck with the clothes rails you bought on impulse when you first moved in. You don’t dust them as often as required (which is hourly), and have started to experience worrying flashbacks to your second-year uni bedroom.
Your walls are bare
Your house is entirely devoid of wall-hung decorations, but you do have an expertly arranged selection of propped-up frames on the mantelpiece/floor/windowsill. You’ve hidden the hammer from your other half, who’s threatening to go on a hanging rampage. Making holes in the walls just seems a tad too permanent for your liking.
Your house is entirely devoid of wall-hung decorations, but you do have an expertly arranged selection of propped-up frames on the mantelpiece/floor/windowsill. You’ve hidden the hammer from your other half, who’s threatening to go on a hanging rampage. Making holes in the walls just seems a tad too permanent for your liking.
You’re never the host
Nobody outside of the family is welcome in your house beyond 9pm because you’re waiting until the bedrooms are fully decorated and equipped, sporting Egyptian cotton sheets and matching bedside lamps, before you’ll even consider inviting ‘overnighters’.
Nobody outside of the family is welcome in your house beyond 9pm because you’re waiting until the bedrooms are fully decorated and equipped, sporting Egyptian cotton sheets and matching bedside lamps, before you’ll even consider inviting ‘overnighters’.
You don’t fix broken things
You no longer notice (or think it strange) that you have to lever open your kitchen cabinets from underneath after the handles fell off three years ago. There was no point fixing them, as you’re about to replace the kitchen… any day now.
TELL US…
Which signs of indecision do you most relate to here? Share your procrastination pain with us in the Comments below.
You no longer notice (or think it strange) that you have to lever open your kitchen cabinets from underneath after the handles fell off three years ago. There was no point fixing them, as you’re about to replace the kitchen… any day now.
TELL US…
Which signs of indecision do you most relate to here? Share your procrastination pain with us in the Comments below.
The arrival of tradespeople prompts prickles of embarrassment as they glance around your house and inevitably ask, ‘Have you just moved in?’ That gap where the not-quite-ordered-yet second sofa should go isn’t getting any smaller, and those ‘temporary’ book stacks/tables aren’t creating the lived-in look you were hoping for.