Home Renovation and Sustainable Building Design
The Benefits of Home Renovation and Sustainable Building Design
- Increase the comfort and enjoyment of your home
Your comfort and enjoyment are the primary reasons why you should renovate. Your changing lifestyle, including the growing WFH movement, requires spaces that nurture and support your working and living needs. Many couples also buy a home that must grow with their expanding family.
- Improve the efficiency of your home
As the price of electricity increases, it’s vital to ensure that your home is as sustainable as possible. New windows, solar, and added insulation are improvements that can decrease energy costs and pay for themselves over time. More efficient homes are also more attractive to buyers if you want to sell since they know costs will be lower on an energy-efficient home.
- Multiply your home’s value
If you plan to sell your home within the next few years, you may want to renovate some or all of it to ensure you get the most you can when you put it on the market. Some projects that create the best immediate return are opening up the main living space, replacing the front door, and updating the kitchen or bathroom.
- Fix safety issues
Some home renovation projects just can’t be put off. Electrical problems, roof leaks, or a crack in the foundation could be the reason why you must renovate. Transform this bad luck into something beautiful that not only keeps your family safe but improves your quality of life.
- Update your home’s style
As the generational transition of home ownership continues to shift, design trends loved by some have lost their charm. An older home can have a dated look that makes it less attractive to buyers and even owners. Updating your home’s style can be a much-needed upgrade based on new trends or a way to prepare a house for sale.
- Prepare the house for sale
While this might seem counterintuitive, positioning your home as the “best on the market” will benefit you in spades financially. With the main objective of sale, home renovations should focus solely on increasing value and positive buyer perception. Neutral colours, upgrades that add worth, and fixing cosmetic or functional problems will help get the house in tip-top shape for sale.
- Pools, decks & pergolas
- Additional space & rooms
- Subdividing an existing residence
- Adding amenities to an existing building
- Changing the style and look of the home or building
Why Choose Sustainable Building Design for Your Home Renovation
Sustainability is a win-win solution for home renovation and building projects. Not only does it reduce negative impacts on the environment and improve building performance—but it also improves your health and comfort. The basic objectives of sustainability are to:
- Reduce consumption of non-renewable resources
- Minimise waste
- Create healthy, productive environments
Adapting a sustainable design ensures that each phase of the design process reduces negative impacts on the environment and the health of the occupants, without compromising the bottom line.
How We Can Help With Your Home Renovation Project
With over a decade of experience, Form to Function Building Designs incorporates balance, contrast and proportion into each of its home renovation projects. Guided by function, the shape and design, or the form influences the overall design.
If you don’t know where and how to start an application to Council, but have a general sense of what you want to design, contact us today. We design and draw plans to code and help you submit them to the relevant authorities.
Our attention to detail, knowledge of the building code, council planning policies and sustainable building design practices provide you peace of mind.
Our designs adhere to:
- The Building Code of Australia
- The National construction code
- Australian Standards
- Local environmental planning policies
- Development control plans
- State environmental planning policies
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