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Orange County Kitchen Remodeler Kitchen Design Tips

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It’s the job of your Orange County kitchen remodeler to create a functional space. It’s easy to get excited about fabulous finishes and amazing appliances, but if your kitchen isn’t functional, it’s a waste of space and money.  Cooks want beautiful and functional kitchens. Inspired Remodels, the design and build Orange County kitchen remodeler, designs for high style and function.  Here are a few of their tips for designing a kitchen that looks fabulous and makes cooking easy.

contrasting cabinets in kitchen

This kitchen features multiple workstations

Consider the Cooks

Most kitchen designs accommodate a single cook in the kitchen. The work triangle (sink, refrigerator, and stove) design keeps in mind one cook and allows the single cook to move efficiently.  

But modern Orange County kitchens often host more than one cook at a time. Contemporary kitchens serve as a gathering place where families and friends come together to create great food and enjoy good times. When multiple cooks work in the kitchen focus on creating workstations.  Workstations for prep, cooking, and cleanup replace the kitchen triangle. Organize these work areas around any appliances needed and create plenty of room to work.  

Maybe your cooking style relies heavily on the toaster oven and air fryer and not the full-sized oven. If that’s the case, skip the double ovens and add extra counter space for your toaster oven, air fryer, or pressure cooker that gets a daily workout.

If your home serves as a holiday meal central, extra wall ovens and warming drawers make cooking for a crowd a breeze.  

Island offers seating in the kitchen

Social Butterfly or Family-Focused?

Is entertaining an important part of your lifestyle or do meals look more like cereal, grilled cheese, and microwave noodle dishes?  If your entertaining style goes beyond light appetizers, you need room to cook for a crowd.

On the other hand, if most of your meals are made quickly and eaten even faster, you need kitchen seating that lets you chow down, clean up, and get out quickly. If the family rarely uses the dining room, the kitchen must provide room to cook and eat.

Do you enjoy guests while you cook? An island offers space for you to chat and be social while preparing your spread.

If formal entertaining is more your style, make sure pass-throughs and doors make it easy to carry loaded platters and plates from the kitchen to the dining area. Skip the doorknobs and use levers or swinging doors.

Open concept kitchen

Orange County Kitchen Remodeler Designs Too!

Inspired Remodels is much more than a standard Orange County kitchen remodeler. They offer complete design services as well. This means they understand the elements of good kitchen design as well as they understand the elements of proper plumbing. 

They go way beyond discussing flooring and countertop finishes. They want to know how you use your kitchen and why you use your kitchen.  The answers to these questions offer keen insight into how your kitchen should be designed.

All great kitchens begin with a great design.  When Inspired Remodels is your Orange County kitchen remodeler you know your kitchen will look amazing and function splendidly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Custom Cabinets Personalize Your Space

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The cabinets you select for your kitchen or bathroom remodel offer an opportunity to put your mark on a room. And when you select custom cabinets, you get more than just wood boxes fitted with doors, shelves, and drawers.  

You get storage solutions that set the tone for the rooms and that have been personalized for how you use the space. Enjoy custom cabinets in the kitchen, bathroom, living areas, and even outdoors.

Let custom cabinets make your odd-shaped spaces usable and maximize the space available for your specific needs.

Custom Cabinets Built for You

The cabinets sold in home improvement stores limit your possibilities. Those stock solutions fail when it comes to customizing a space.

But custom and semi-custom cabinetry installed by Inspired Remodels offers the look and benefits you want. You won’t be limited to a small number of finishes or door designs.

Get custom cabinets built to the height you want. Stock cabinets accommodate the height of the average person. Not great news if you are exceptionally tall or short. But custom cabinets let you set the countertop height at the height you want.  

blue custom cabinets have small space for wine storage

Orange County residents love wine and Inspired Remodels installs cabinets for wine storage in the kitchen, butler’s pantry, or dining area. You can even add cabinets built to display crystal barware or other decorative items.

Use custom cabinetry and turn a living area into a personal library to store and display your treasure trove of tomes.

white custom cabinets in laundry room over the washer and dryer

Custom Cabinets in Irvine Laundry room

Custom Cabinets by Design

One of the most important components in a kitchen or bathroom remodel is the selection of cabinets.

Before you think about countertops, sinks, doors, drawers, and finishes you must think about how you want to use the space.

The Inspired Remodels designers not only help you determine the overall look you want to achieve with the remodel, but they will also come up with a room layout that meets your needs.

Tell them about how you want to use the room. What storage needs do you have? Are you a casual entertainer or a gourmet chef?

Custom cabinets make the best use of the available space, squeeze out extra space, and personalize the room. And when it comes to making sure rooms flow from one to another, the designer can help you select finishes for a seamless flow.

This Orange County remodel uses custom kitchen cabinets to coordinate perfectly with the cabinets by the fireplace.

Enjoy Inspired Custom Cabinet Design with Inspired Remodels

When it comes time to remodel the kitchen, update the bathroom, or bring new life to a tired living room or bedroom, be sure to incorporate custom and semi-custom cabinets.  

If you need some inspiration, check out the Inspired Remodels portfolio of work. Inspired Remodels has been installing custom cabinetry in Orange County to the delight of homeowners. Inspired Remodels is a complete design and build construction firm. They can take your remodeling dreams and turn them into reality.

Call (949) 716-1938 and turn your home from meh to marvelous.

 

 

Four Advantages of Custom Kitchen Remodeling

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Are you thinking about remodeling your Orange County kitchen, but still sitting on the fence? Now is the time to move! Custom kitchen remodeling brings an entirely new look to your living area, makes the best use of space, and offers a great opportunity to add elements you dream of.

When you incorporate custom kitchen cabinets as part of the kitchen remodeling project, you end up with quality cabinets to last for years.

Here are four advantages of custom kitchen remodeling for your Orange County home.

custom kitchen remodeling adds white shaker cabinets and brushed nickel faucet

Open Concept Transforms the Living Space

Orange County homes liberally make use of the open concept in building and remodeling. So, when you transform your kitchen with a custom kitchen remodel, the transformation spills over into the adjacent living spaces.

Adding white kitchen cabinets not only makes the kitchen look larger but also makes the connecting spaces look larger as well.

When you improve kitchen lighting or seating, you improve the dining options or usage of adjacent spaces.

Orange county custom kitchen remodeling uses white upper cabinets and dark lower cabinets

For example, this Irvine custom kitchen remodeling added extra light to the dining area and tied the two spaces together with wood flooring.

In this custom kitchen remodel, the kitchen opens up into the living area. Light spills from the kitchen to light the hallway, stairs, and living area too.

custom cabinets display stemware

Custom Kitchen Cabinets Are Higher Quality

No Orange County custom kitchen remodeling project would be complete without updating the kitchen cabinets. Remodeling affords you the opportunity to upgrade your kitchen cabinets.

If you have stock or builder-grade cabinetry, now is the time to upgrade to custom or semi-custom cabinets. Custom cabinets are more affordable than you think.

Orange County custom cabinets in two tones in Cosa Caza kitchen

You won’t find particleboard construction in your custom kitchen cabinets. They are made to last. Not only is the cabinet construction superior, but the hinges, drawer rails, and glides are of higher quality as well.

In the future, you can paint or reface wood cabinets if you decide you want to update the look without updating the entire kitchen. That’s not possible with stock and low-grade kitchen cabinets.

 

Custom Kitchen Remodeling Maximizes Space

Speaking of those custom cabinets, custom kitchen remodeling allows you to maximize the space in your new design. Ingenious custom cabinets provide new ways to store common items.

The move from cabinets to drawers provides more storage in the same space.

With custom kitchen remodeling, you get the space where you want it in your Orange County kitchen. Whether it’s pantry space or pull-out steps, custom cabinets in your custom kitchen put the items you want at your fingertips.

Remodeling Incorporates Missing Elements

When you built or purchased your Orange County home, you settled for the house that gave you the most of what you wanted at the time.

But over time, your wants can change. Kitchen remodeling is the perfect time to incorporate those new wants or add in the elements that have been missing.

custom cabinets make use of space in corner

Maybe you wanted a warming drawer, wine storage, or a beverage bar.  Remodeling affords the chance to take a space and make it your own.