Your first home renovation in Australia is equal parts exhilarating and nerve-wracking, and the list of do's and donts is fairly long for first-time home renovations not beacause there are too many but because not knowing what to do is the problem. According to the Housing Industry Association (HIA), Australians invest more than $33 billion annually in home renovations — a figure rising steadily as soaring property values make improving an existing home a smarter play than s