Checklist for Making Changes in Your Home

What to Change First?

If you review your options and decide to remodel your current home, you need to decide what you should change first. In the articles in this month’s issue (May 2021 – New Home!) assume that if you’re staying in your home you’ll feel best about making primarily interior design sorts of changes there and that if architectural modifications seem in order, you’ll pack your bags and move on to a new house!

Also, here we’re not going to talk about conditions in your home that can change from moment to moment, such as scents and sounds, we’ve covered those topics here and here, for example.

Be True to You

If there is something in your home that really annoys you, whatever it is probably fundamentally at odds with your self identity. “Self identity” is psychology speak for how you think about yourself. When something in the space where we live is inconsistent with how we think about our self, then we feel tense. An example will make this clearer.

If you feel that you are quite a neat-clean person, one that vigorously attacks any dust or dirt that finds its way into your home, and your front door or kitchen walls are covered with grime-infused paint, maybe because the people who lived in your home before you were not very interested in keeping spaces clean(!), painting that “super-annoying” front door or those kitchen walls should be first on your to do list! To choose particular colours for particular purposes, you’ll want to look at this page of articles The Space Doctors have written about colour.

Checklist

If there’s nothing in your home that seems particularly problematic, assess current conditions there, in the following order: