You've found the perfect home in Baltimore, made an offer, and been accepted. Closing has gone through, the old tenants are out, it's time to transfer all your furniture in from your old place at Brampton Condos, right? Slow down a minute! You have a unique opportunity to design you new space from the bottom up, so don't waste it by being hasty. Before you fill your house with your things, plan out how best to make use of your space.

Step 1: Renovations

It is much faster and easier to renovate an empty house, so do a walk through and see if there's anything that needs doing. Does the hardwood floor need to be refinished? Do you want to knock down or put up any walls? Are there drafts in the windows and doors? Toronto contractors and their Baltimore counterparts can get these renos done in a few uninterrupted days if your budget can handle it. Even if you can't store your stuff while it's going on, it at least helps to have a plan to go forward with.

Step 2: Color Scheme

Right now your house is as the previous owners left it. With the colors they liked on the walls, the house looks like it belongs to someone else and if the paint has not been recently refreshed it may seem old and dingy. A new coat of paint fixes everything, so consider painting inside and out before there's a lot of furniture to get in the way. This gives you the chance to use that color scheme from Pleasant Valley NY Homes you liked, or to perhaps copy those catalog colors.

Step 3: Furnishings

Once the paint is dry its time to move your stuff in. However, before you lump everything in and drop it wherever you happen to be, take a walk through and make notes on a floor plan which items would look best where. Perhaps you have a set of shelves to compliment the bathroom furniture vanities or your old living room sofa would look better in the family room. It doesn't have to be exact, just sketch out some ideas while the palate is blank.

Step 4: Decorative Accents

And finally it's time to unpack and make the home yours. The decor you bring with you or buy to compliment your color scheme should be put up all at once to avoid a piecemeal look. You might allow you daughter to decorate with words on her walls or hang some of your quilt squares up as tapestries. As with the furniture step, you may want to leave it in the box until you've got a plan of where you want it to go.