6 Ways to Ready Your Home for a Renovation

A large kitchen with a fill wall of blue and white tiles behind the range, and white cabinetry on the other. There's a white island in the middle with large black pendant lights overhead.

Photo by Pieter Estersohn

Preparing for a home renovation is an undertaking — no matter how big. But there’s an aspect to the before-and-after process that can feel particularly uncharted, simply because pre-reno prep goes by the wayside. And we’re not just talking about all the clean up

Decision fatigue is hard enough without having to navigate home renovation chaos. “It can be hard enough to plan the design, let alone have the mental capacity to make a plan for how you are going to live during construction,” says Jessica D’Itri Marés, a designer from Thousand Oaks, California. “You don’t want to have a design decision be influenced by the energy it took to get to your clothes.”

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