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We all love a good gut renovation—there’s a reason total-home renovation shows are eternally popular—but in real life, with real budgets, a full renovation sometimes just isn’t an option. Tearing your home down to the studs, as they say on those shows, costs a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean you’re stuck with a space that doesn’t serve you if you don’t have the funds for a full renovation. Enter: the No-Demo Reno.
Smaller-scale home updates are always a great option, whether you’re biding your time until you can afford a larger update or you simply want to take your time sprucing up your space—and the right ones can make an enormous difference in your enjoyment of your home. Better Homes & Gardens spoke with Bobby Berk (yes, that Bobby Berk) for his top tips for affordably increasing the value of your home—and, more importantly, loving it.
Bobby Berk is a design expert and TV host. He is the author of Right at Home: How Good Design Is Good for the Mind, an interior design book published in 2023, and was one of the stars of Netflix’s Emmy-winning Queer Eye series for eight seasons.
The answer to many of your no-demo renovation conundrums is simple, according to Berk: paint. Painting (almost anything you can) is Berk’s simple solution for an inexpensive and easy way to boost your home’s value and appearance.
“If you’re planning to eventually demo something and are just waiting until you can afford it, don’t be afraid to paint something. Paint’s great,” Berk—who has partnered with home services site Thumbtack—says.
Whether it’s countertops, backsplashes, or cabinets, Berk encourages painting anything that will help you love
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