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Assessing Your Space

Every building is different. Its shape, size, age and architecture give it a distinctive character that needs to be taken into account when you are planning how to use it.

Give yourself time to get to know your home before you start imposing your design plans on it. This usually means waiting for a few weeks after you move in (or preferably a couple of months) while you feel your way around.

Establish which rooms feel most comfortable at different times of day-which are the lightest, which are the quietest, which have the best views and which are overlooked? Trust your instincts and take note of which spaces you tend to avoid and which you gravitate towards. Consider how you can make the most of your preferred areas, and think about the other parts that need to be rearranged in order to create more usable space, perhaps by moving doorways or knocking rooms through into one another.