Surviving Home Renovation While Living in the House: Your Essential Guide

Your home renovation just got a whole lot easier! With smart planning and moving containers and storage to keep your belongings safe while all the renovating work is being done, you will soon be one lucky owner of a whole new house!

Let’s map out how you can still live in your home and maintain your sanity during a home renovation, shall we?

Key Considerations Before You Start Renovations

1. Plan and Time Your Renovation

When it comes to this type of renovation, make no mistake: you are at war, and you are a general who needs to have a plan to survive it. If it’s only you you have to worry about, great – you can find some storage to keep your belongings safe for the time.

But if you have family, you have to consider how the renovation will affect them and how to work with them. If you have kids, maybe consider doing the renovation in their summer holiday. You can send them to their grandparents and get them out of the way.

2. Selecting A Professional

Before you get that pen-pencil-pen moment on, ask your prospective contractors if they have ever had a gig as “The Renovator-While-People-Are-Home.”

If they have, they will be able to handle it better than a duck in mouse-infested waters, and they can probably also give you a few tips on how to navigate this precarious path of moving into your house instead of out of it — for 4–8 weeks

3. Declutter Your Home 

With a home renovation, you must move some stuff around and store it in unusual places or get a PODS storage container. Now, this could be difficult if you have a ton of stuff.

So, the first step should be to get rid of all unnecessary clutter!  There is no room for sentiment here! If there are things you have not seen used or touched in quite a while, trash, sell or donate them.

4. Health and Safety First

Construction zones (which your home now is) have a lot of dust and other not-so-great particles floating about, so make sure you ventilate the space by always opening the windows and maybe installing some air purifiers around.

On top of that, also think about the health of those inside the home, specifically children, the elderly, and pets. They cannot be exposed to construction materials and bad things like the fumes from paint. 

5. Where To Store Your Stuff: Calling Up PODS 

While covering up your furniture is good – finding somewhere outside to put it away from the dust and dirt of the construction work is even better. Enter PODS containers — essentially a portable storage solution that really will make your life easier!

These storage containers do what no other storage solution will do, and they are easily accessible at your beck and call in your backyard. 

All you need to do is call up PODS and tell them you need a container and how long you need it. They will send it right over and drop it off in your backyard.

And just like that, you have somewhere to store your stuff. Now, this is not any old container; it is a highly secure and safe portable storage unit.

This means you can store your valuables like your TV and furniture, but you can also store stuff that will get affected by the weather and elements and keep it safe. Your home renovation cannot be done without a PODS container!

Living Through the Renovation

1. Communication is Key

Talk to the crew working in your house about your schedule and ask them about theirs. This way, you won’t bump into their work process, and neither will they bump into yours.

2. Set Up Temporary Living Spaces

So you can’t use your regular dining room? No problem! Set up a new one somewhere else and make it fun! You can do the same with the kitchen and the living room. Doing this will help your house still feel like home even when everything has been upended.

3. Clean, Clean, Clean!

You are probably thinking, why are we wasting effort to clean a place which is going to get dirty anyway? But Dust, Hello! Dust is absolutely everywhere whenever you renovate something.

Also, you can’t unsee dirt; you just can’t. Conjuring up more reasons to get rid of dirt and, once in a while, make it mentally organized!

4. A Grounded Routine

Nothing is worse than having strangers disturb the peace of your house with loud noises (because it’s a quiet environment for you. But still, you can find ways to bring normalcy to your life.

First of all, get your mind, body, and spirit ready for the incoming renovation. & Possibly have a vision board or rather a mood board on how you would like your house to look after all of this mess.

After that, just try to continue your life like you normally would, but only with a messed up lifestyle, dealing with the aftermath of construction work going on in your house.

Awaiting Your Next Home Renovation Adventure

So you can’t always go around frolicking out of your house while renovation is happening. Sometimes, you’ve got to make do with what you’ve got.

The good thing is, with all these tips and tricks here, you’re gonna be so excited about your renovated house you might even plan a road trip to kill time!