Make no mistake: renovating your home is a complex business, but if you're aware of the pitfalls, you have a headstart, writes Sarah Pickette.

In theory, renovating your home should be a creative and satisfying experience – you're customising a house to turn it into your ideal home. In reality though, a renovation is time-consuming, expensive and never as effortless as it appears on television. Armed with the right knowledge, however, you can emerge from the renovation process unscathed and with few regrets, as the owners of this month's featured houses will attest.

Identifying the potential pitfalls is key. Here, we've put some industry experts on the spot so you don't have to discover things the hard way.

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