As one bright spark recently put it, "it's hard to know what you don't know about" (we'll let that one sink in for a minute). This is especially true for people who are building, renovating or repairing their homes. Planning often doesn't go much further than drooling over pretty pictures on Pinterest or superficial, glossy house mags. Not knowing what your options are leads to confusion, unrealistic expectations and (often) blown budgets.

The solution? Download our brilliant checklists. They're the building equivalent of space food sticks - a wealth of info concentrated into a tiny, tasty morsel of a document, designed to walk you calmy through whatever you're trying to build or improve. Download them for yourself and let us know what you think.

Darcy Wilson
Editor - Build
www.build.com.au