Planning renovations

By Metro Creative

Planning plays an integral role in the home improvement process, and it’s perhaps a more time-consuming component of renovations than homeowners realize.

According to the “2024 U.S. Houzz & Home Study” from Houzz Research, homeowners spent almost twice as much time planning their kitchen renovations in 2023 as it took for the projects to be completed.

The researchers behind the report found that the average time spent planning a kitchen renovation in 2023 was 9.6 months, while the building took 5.1 months.

Additional projects featured a similar disparity between the time to plan and the time to build. For example, homeowners spent 8.1 months planning living room renovations, which then took an additional 4.1 months to complete.

Even smaller projects like closet renovations required ample planning (6.5 months) that more than doubled the time required to complete the project (3.1 months).

— Metro Creative