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I Hate My House! What Can I Do About That? 
I'm Not Happy with My House anymore! But, What Can I Do About That??
You have four choices when you realize there’s something about your house that you don’t like: Live with it; put a Band-Aid on it; move out; or remodel it.
Option #1 | Live with it!
You may not be happy with your home, but as long as it's safe to live in, doing nothing is always an option, especially when money is tight. However, if you don’t occasionally upgrade and update your home, you can diminish its value. Even if you have no plans to move and sell your home now, your plans might change. Keeping your home in good shape—so it looks nice, operates well and runs efficiently—will make living in it more comfortable and convenient, and can save you the expense and time it will take to do it all at once if you ever decide to put it on the market.
Option #2 | Put a Band-Aid on it.
Simply redecorating and making minor improvements can solve some of your problems. Consider the following toughups that will leave your space looking updated and cared for.:
- replace the drapes and other window treatments
- choose a different paint color and freshen up the walls, doors, cabinets, etc.
- switch dirty, old cabinet handles and drawer pulls with stylish new ones
- update lighting fixtures
- move or update your furnature and/or assessories
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Option #3 | Move out.
Before you hang that for-sale sign, consider a few things. If your house suddenly seems too big because your children have grown up and moved away, or too small because you’re adding to your young family, you might be able to redesign the space you have instead of moving to a new one. How about adding on a nursery, playroom or mother-in-law suite if you need more room for more people? Or, if you have too much room, you might rethink how you use the ones on the main floor. A little-used formal dining room can become a first-floor bedroom, for example, and an empty child’s room can have new life as a craft room or upstairs laundry room. Base your decision about where to live on lifestyle. Know how you want to live in your house before moving from one to another. If you are thinking about moving, though, consider how your home might look to potential buyers. The things you don’t like very likely will turn others off as well. As you fix up your home to ready it for sale, you might find that the newly renovated space works could work well enough for you that you don’t have to move after all.
Option #4 | Remodel it.
If your budget can stand it, you can change almost anything in your home to make it suit your lifestyle better. Not enough closets? Knock down a non-load-bearing wall and create a giant, walk-in closet from a spare bedroom.
Feel isolated from the family while you’re cooking in your closed-in kitchen and everyone else has congregated in the family room? Open up the space so the family room becomes part of the kitchen and the cook can be part of the group, even while stirring at the stove.
Having trouble getting into the shower because it’s part of a bathtub that you never use? Remove the bathtub and fashion a roomy, stand-alone shower in the space.
It costs little, if anything, to bounce some ideas around with an architect or remodeling contractor who can tell you what’s possible within your budget, offer solutions you hadn’t thought of and help you figure out how to re-create your house’s layout so it feels a lot more like home.
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Tune-In! We talk about the Most Asked Question Of The Week: I am not happy with my home. What should I do? We discuss the above ideas and more to see if it's worth remodeling or moving out altogether. Plus, we take a call from a person who has luxury vinyl flooring planks coming up off the floor. The installer and others associated with the floor can't decide on the proper repair and it's really confusing! Tune-In to the rest of the broadcast.
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