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Interior Remodeling with Fireplaces? Yes, Please!

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Cozy time is coming! Our Orange County climate offers cool nights, perfect for cuddling up to a fireplace. Whether you want a functional fireplace for heat or just looking to add ambiance, Inspired Remodels never forgets the fireplace when interior remodeling.

Irvine interior remodel converts fireplace to electric

Surrounded by Design

Too often the fireplace mantle and hearth get all the design love. But this Irvine interior remodeling forgoes both. Instead, of a traditional mantle, wood molding takes its place. The result is clean and classic as a Roman column. While there’s still space to display a few items, the molding combination is the real design element.  And instead of a traditional hearth, the flooring comes right up to the fireplace front. When you aren’t burning wood, there’s no need to worry about embers.  Because the hearth protects from embers, when you get rid of the embers you eliminate the need for a hearth. A herringbone tile front finishes the look.

elements of interior remodeling move outside in Mission ViejoNotice how this patio fireplace retains a gas flame and thus retains a traditional hearth. And that raised hearth really elevates this fireplace. Literally and figuratively. Inside or out, there’s no need for a fireplace to be at floor level.

interior remodeling adds rustic stone fireplace

This rustic, wood-burning fireplace also features a raised hearth. The look of stacked stone is perfect for French Country or Mission-inspired interior remodeling projects. And once again, molding takes the place of a traditional hearth. 

interior remodeling updates fireplace with stacked stone

Interior Remodeling Updates Fireplaces Too!

Maybe you have a fireplace you feel doesn’t fit your sense of style. Or maybe it’s time to update your fireplace. Yes, that’s right – update your fireplace.

Inspired Remodels not only installs fireplaces but can also completely change the look of your existing fireplace. By adding moldings, changing the hearth, or refacing the fireplace your fireplace will be completely transformed.

In this fireplace, a light-colored stacked stone front provides a more modern look. The more traditional mantle gets a facelift with additional molding. And, everyone looks better with a new coat of paint.  This fireplace is ready to keep homeowners feeling the love for years to come.

This fireplace received a similar treatment. New stacked stone, an updated hearth, and fresh moldings and paint complete the look. The fireplace now serves as a focal point for the room, not a tired eyesore.

Sometimes that fireplace gets lonely. This interior remodeling project added custom cabinets on both sides of the fireplace. The entire wall makes a statement. Rustic stacked stone pairs perfectly with the simplicity of the Shaker-inspired cabinet doors. It’s a design that beckons you to take a book from the shelf and curl up in the chair and enjoy a fire.

Interior Remodeling and Design Services in Orange County

From kitchen and bathrooms to patios and fireplaces, Inspired Remodels offers full-service interior remodeling and design services in Orange County.

Inspired Remodels uses a design-build approach to take the hassle out of interior remodeling. You enjoy one point of contact and the assurance of knowing everyone is working from the same playbook.

 

Orange County Flooring Contractor Shares 3 Ways Hard Floors are Better

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Flooring for your home represents a significant financial outlay. Anytime you spend that much money, you want to know you are getting the best product for your home and health. So what floors are the best? Hard flooring in any form is the healthiest choice. Inspired Remodels, a popular Orange County flooring contractor shares why hard floors make the healthiest homes.

cat sitting on carpet

A cat and carpet together are not a good idea

Reason 1 – Hard Flooring Reduces Allergens

Hard floors make healthier floors because they reduce the number of allergens in your home. Place carpets and rugs on your floors and install allergen magnets.

Textile flooring collects dust, pollen, molds, dust, dust mites, and pet allergens. Then, each time a person walks on the carpet or rug, their feet send a cloud of allergens up into the air. Even if you run HEPA air cleaners, you aren’t going to collect all the allergens.

Orange County flooring contractor installs wood look tile in kitchenThat allergen cloud wafts up to sensitive noses and soon there’s sneezing, wheezing, coughing, and watery eyes. Textile flooring might be a good look for the floor, but it’s not a good look for your health.

And these days, everybody is concerned about health.

Wood, stone, and tile flooring refuse to collect allergens. They just won’t do it. That’s because they are easy to clean. This leads us to reason number 2.

Hard floors and cats are a better idea

Reason 2 – Hard Flooring is Easy to Keep Clean

Hard floors provide no place for dirt or allergens to hide. Unlike textile flooring with fibers, nooks, and crannies, hard flooring offers a smooth surface.

Whether you vacuum or damp mop, you’ll remove the dirt. Where vacuuming carpets sends dust flying, vacuuming hard floors with a horsehair brush dislodges dust without making it airborne.

Carpeting represents multiple layers of textiles. Not only does the carpet collect dirt, but dirt falls between the fibers to the padding underneath. Face it, you are never going to clean that padding. You can pay someone to clean your carpet, but it won’t really be clean. And, the padding stays dirty.

Clean a wood, tile, or stone floor and it is really clean. And it will stay clean longer provided you remove your shoes before coming inside.

Orange County flooring contractor installs bamboo flooring

Reason 3 – Hard Flooring Improves Planet Health

For the most part, textile flooring comes from synthetic materials. These materials are carbon-based. Oil and minerals are extracted, refined, processed, and spun to create fibers. It consumes vasts amounts of energy and isn’t renewable.

Compare that with bamboo flooring. Bamboo flooring provides the most eco-friendly option in hard flooring. Any Orange County flooring contractor in the know knows that bamboo beats other hardwoods when it comes to hardness. Bamboo harvested from managed farms renews in 5 to 7 years. You can’t say that for an oak tree.

Ceramic tile is also eco-friendly. Yes, it is mined but unlike carpet, ceramic lasts up to 50 years. So you enjoy many years of use when compared to carpeting or other textile floorings that must be continually replaced.

Orange County Flooring Contractor Knows Flooring

Talk to Inspired Remodels about your flooring needs. Inspired Remodels is the Orange County flooring contractor that matches your lifestyle and budget to the best flooring for your home.

Stop by the showroom, call (949) 716-1938, or Contact Us online.

From flooring to fixtures and finishes, Inspired Remodels is Orange County’s premier home remodeling company.

Psst – need a little inspiration? Check out the portfolio of Orange County flooring projects.

Orange County Interior Remodeling Company Works Outdoors Too

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COVID-19 has everyone in California staying home. Inspired Remodels is the Orange County interior remodeling company upping the look of kitchens, baths, and fireplaces all over SoCal. Now, Inspired Remodels provides exterior design and installation services too. From covered patios and kitchens to little touches like fans and lighting, Inspired Remodels knows what it takes to create a comfortable and desirable outdoor space.

Fantastic Outdoor Living in Foothill Ranch

Foothill Ranch embraces the outdoors. With its proximity to Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park and the Luge Mountain Biking Trails, not the mention Limestone Canyon Park (whoops! did mention it) people who love the outdoors feel drawn to this area.

It’s only natural for Foothill Ranchers to want a great outdoor space at home. Inspired Remodels performs amazing transformations inside, but they work outside as well. They are the Orange County interior remodeling company that is just at home in the great outdoors.

Just take a look at this fabulous dining area and outdoor kitchen. To start with, the stacked stone perfectly matches the natural environment.

Now having a big screen TV outdoors is perfect for watching the USC game or the Rose Bowl, but it still rains in Southern California. And when it does, it pours. Not a great environment for sophisticated electronic equipment.

But this isn’t a challenge for Inspired Remodels. This Orange County interior remodeling company thinks outside the box. The answer creates a means to mechanically lift the screen out of the island for viewing and then store it safely away from the elements when not in use.

Pure Genius!

Mission Viejo Masterpiece

What better way to knock back the night chill than with a little fire. Inspired Remodels creates truly inspired fireplaces indoors, and their outdoor fireplaces are truly spectacular.

Take bricks and create a privacy wall. Next, add wrought iron fencing for the deck railing. Tile the floor with stone and use stacked stone for the fireplace. Using a gas insert means you never chop wood or haul ashes. No risk of a stray ember starting a fire either.

Orange County interior remodeling company creates an outdoor living and dining room in Mission Viejo backyard

Now here’s something different in Mission Viejo. Inspired Remodels created an entire living and dining area outside!

Who wants to be in when you can sit at the marble bar, eat at the trestle table, or lounge by the pool? This outdoor area smoothly transitions indoors as the two spaces become one.

Orange County interior remodeling company creates an outdoor living area in Foothill Ranch

The Orange County Interior Remodeling Company for Your Outdoor Work

Ready for a better outdoor living area? Just call on Inspired Remodels, the Orange County interior remodeling company that’s at home making your home better outdoors.

If you can dream it our design/build team makes it happen.