Home is where the heart is, they say, but what if your heart is torn between staying put and seeking new horizons? The decision to move or improve your current home is one that many of us face at various stages of our lives. It’s a conundrum that involves weighing countless factors, from financial considerations to emotional attachments, from practical needs to aspirational dreams.

Knowing whether to move home and when to just improve your current home, can leave you undecided. Do you find yourself browsing Right Move or Zoopla? Considering moving home? Do you know when it’s best to move and when to improve? I know I do. Quite a lot as it happens.

In this blog, we’ll delve into the age-old dilemma of knowing when it’s time to pack up and move to a new place, and when it’s best to roll up your sleeves and invest in improving your current abode. From assessing your current situation to envisioning your future, we’ll explore the key considerations that can guide you toward making the right choice for you and your family.

Move Or Improve Your Home

Sometimes I am just curious how much a local house has gone up for sale. I actually look to consider moving and sometimes I am just looking at how other people decorate their homes. Having some home inspiration is a great thing to research before you start DIY or having any renovation work started.

I am currently renovating, but no harm in looking right?

There are some less extreme ways of improving your home. Painting a few of the walls in a new colour, or putting up cute wallpapers in various rooms. Laying some Engineered Wood Flooring to make the rooms feel fresh and clean. This is a lot cheaper than moving however, it might not be the answer you are looking for.

Move To A New Home

Moving home can be expensive. Buying and selling fees quickly mount up and then you have the extra un-planned costs to consider too.

However, if you live in a neighbourhood or road that you do not like, then moving to somewhere else will solve that problem. There are still no guarantees you are going to like your new road until you are living there.

Your home is too small. You have already extended out to your quota of space allowed. You have that attic conversion already and you simply can’t physically make the home any bigger.

This is something growing families tend to find, they simply out grow the home and no amount of improvement or developments will help make the home any more suitable.

If this is the case for you and moving seems like your best option, then click here to see how happly removals can help.

But have you ever thought that you just need a change?

Improve Your Home

You absolutely love your road, and your neighbours are your best friends. You are conveniently located for schools, work, shopping and your and your family’s social activities. But you are running out of space.

Each dwelling is entitled to extend onto its property in some way. As long as the ground area covered by the extension and any other buildings within the boundary of the property, excluding the original house is not more than half the total area of the property. That is without planning permission.

If you want to expand bigger than 50% of the original property footing you will need to seek approval from the local authority first. Look at ways to maximise the space in your home without extending first, whether that’s by installing bifold doors north east (or those elsewhere) to make your space feel bigger and brighter, or by repurposing wasted space.

Maybe you have lived in your home a long time, you might be fed up with the layout, you could try and open plan your kitchen and dining room into one room. An easy way to plan this out these days is to use a kitchen design application to put together a layout which works based on the floorplan of your home. Approaching a kitchen renovation company with your proposed plan can speed up the planning process, meaning you’ll have a transformed space in no time!

This will give you the opportunity to redecorate, which will change how you feel about your home.

These are your two options and if you do plan to extend take a look at 4 ways to destress while renovating

Knowing when to move and when to improve can not always be an easy decision.