lessons learnt

“We didn’t put enough time into planning our first bathroom and ended up replacing the cabinetry and stone tops. Always go for the highest-quality finishes or you will end up replacing them”

“We also naively thought that our previous renovation experience — on our three-bedroom apartment in Sydney — would prepare us for this one. Wrong! Initially we tried tackling sections of the work bit by bit to control the budget and chaos, as we had done on our apartment reno, but soon realised that we had to move much faster on a larger-scale project to get through the jobs and meet our timeline. And this time we had to juggle a lot more balls at once.”