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Bathroom Renovation Company Gives Tips for an Inviting Guest Bath

By Inspired Remodels / Bathroom Remodel, Home Improvement / Comments Off

The holiday season is upon us. If you had guests over the Thanksgiving holiday, did you make them feel welcome in every room of your home? Inspired Remodels, the Orange County bathroom renovation company that designs and builds master bathrooms, guest bathrooms, and spa bathrooms has some tips on how you can make holiday guests feel at home in the bathroom.

Start with a Clean Slate

Start out with a squeaky clean slate. Even if a bathroom doesn’t get used often, it does get dirty. Dust collects on fixtures and on rugs and towels. Make sure the bathroom is freshly scrubbed and scoured before your guest arrives. Even if you don’t have the time or inclination to do the scrubbing yourself, hire a service to clean the bathroom. Many cleaning services will perform one-time cleaning services. If you are busy, this is a great task to outsource and Groupons are often available for cleaning services.

scrub and remove clutter

If you do the cleaning yourself, be sure to clean behind the toilet, where dust collects and replace linens. Evaluate the shower curtain liner. If it looks dirty or dingy, many vinyl liners can be cleaned in the washer with a bleach solution to remove mold and mildew.

Remove all personal items and store them out-of-sight.

Set Out Deluxe Linens

Invest in a set of luxury bath linens. This is a splurge that will pay off for years to come. High thread count, thick bath linens will make your guests think your home has a spa feel every day of the week. You don’t need to tell them otherwise.

Two-ply towels are more absorbent than one-ply towels. Don’t use fabric softener on your towels. Fabric softener leaves a coating that reduces the absorbency of the towel. For fresh smelling, soft bath linens, use a fabric softener sheet in the dryer instead.

Think of Everything

These days, travel by air means leaving behind razors, tweezers, and full size toiletries. Stock up your guest bath with everything your guest may have left behind or need during the stay. They will appreciate your thoughtfulness. Items to stock include:

toothbrushes
mouthwash
hairbrushes
razors
tweezers
shampoo
conditioner
body lotion
cotton balls
cotton swabs
ibuprofen
antacid
multi-symptom cold medicine
feminine hygiene products

Your guest will appreciate your thoughtfulness and be happy to skip an emergency trip to the store

Spa Experience on Dollar Budget

Stocking your guest bathroom doesn’t have to cost a fortune. The dollar stores are filled with loofa sponges, bath salts, perfumed lotions, body brushes, and other spa-like bathroom supplies.

Set a basket with spa supplies on the edge of the tub to encourage your guests to soak travel stress away.

Stock Up On Spa Supplies

Repair and Replace

If you have been putting off replacing worn or leaking faucets or shower heads, this is a great time to make those repairs. Some leaky faucets just need a new washer. Here’s how to make this simple faucet repair. Shower heads can be replaced in just a few minutes. Leaks waste water and money. Leaks also add to hard water deposits. If your toilet leaks, check the fill valve and the flush valve. These parts are also easily replaced.

Leaks waste water and money. Stop leaks.

Bathroom Renovation

It’s too late to renovate before your holiday guests arrive. But it isn’t too late to start planning for a bathroom renovation. You will be ready to start the new year with a new look for your guest bathroom.

Inspired Remodels is the bathroom renovation company that will work with you to create a guest bath to wow even the most finicky guest.

Call (949) 716-1938 to get started today.

Kitchen Renovation Ideas to Fall in Love with this Fall

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Thinking about renovating your kitchen before the holidays? Inspired Remodels, the premier kitchen renovation company, has some ideas for touches that will give you a kitchen to fall in love with this fall. Just take a look.

Use Patterns in Your Kitchen Renovation

Chevron patterns are everywhere. We are finding them in upholstery, wallpaper, textiles and now they are even showing up in tile. Check out this chevron pattern we recently installed on a backsplash.

Chevron Tile Pattern installed by local kitchen renovation company

Backsplash Tile in Chevron Pattern

This is tilework is practical, easy to clean, and adds timeless style to the kitchen. Notice the use of grey? Grey is the new white in interior design.

Another popular pattern is achieved with subway tiles. These traditional 3 x 6 tiles are available in an incredible color palate and their appeal is timeless. Your kitchen renovation should be about creating a kitchen that you will fall in love with again and again.

gray glazed subway tile used for backsplash in this kitchen remodel

Grey glazed subway tile has timeless appeal

When you stay with classic colors and lines you get a kitchen that is ageless. Simply update the fixtures, lighting, and cabinet hardware when you are ready to freshen thing up.

Task Lighting to Love

Your kitchen needs to be more than beautiful; it needs to be functional as well. Having enough light to tell the parsley from the cilantro makes a real difference in the way your food tastes!

You can make the most of natural light and augment it with lighting for ambience but the key to a kitchen you love is task lighting. Task lighting gives you the light you need to get the job done. Chopping, kneading and mixing are easier and safer when you can see what you are doing.

Lighting mounted under the cabinet is a way to add light to your work areas. Notice how this kitchen renovation gets a lighting lift with under-cabinet lights.

Lights under the cabinets and pendant lights provide task lighting

pendant lighting used in kitchen renovation to provide task lights

Pendant lights provide task lighting

Pendant lights are another fabulous way to provide lighting over an island or prep station. Pendant lights direct the light exactly where you need it. They are also available in a wide variety of finishes and shades to match any décor. When you are ready to update, just change the shade and it looks like new lighting.

Little Touches – Big Impact

Sometime it’s just the little things that make you fall in love with your kitchen. Cabinet door knobs and drawer pulls are more than just a way to open the door/drawer they are an inexpensive way to highly customize your kitchen and make it yours.

Cabinet Hardware. Just take a look at this drawer pull. Yes, it is functional, but it is beautiful as well. Same for the cabinet door knobs.

Pulls and knobs are like jewelry for your cabinets

Personalized Storage. Make sure your kitchen renovation company understands your cooking style. Incorporate storage where you need it most. Do you like to stand over a simmering pot, stirring, tasting, and adding a dash of this or a touch of that? If so, the unique storage drawer have you falling in love with your kitchen every time you cook.

Pull Out Rack Keeps Spices Close at Hand

Storage can also be used to transition from the kitchen to the living area. This kitchen remodel included a transitional space that provides storage and display space and doubles as a wine bar too. Perfect for the family that entertains from the kitchen area.

Renovate Your Kitchen this Fall

If you are ready for a kitchen renovation that will give you a kitchen to fall in love with this fall, pick the kitchen renovation contractor that designs and builds. Pick Inspired Remodels.

Inspired Remodels will help you come up with a personal design that provides timeless appeal and can be easily updated in the future. Need some inspiration? Talk to one of our designers. They are experts at listening and turning dream kitchens into real kitchens.

Call (949) 716-1938 or Contact Us to schedule your consultation.

Grey is the New White for this Renovation Contractor

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When renovating, updating, or remodeling your home you walk a fine line between picking a palate and style that is current and fresh yet will have timeless appeal. A professional renovation contractor that also provides design services can help you navigate dangerous waters. Inspired Remodels, an Orange County renovation contractor explains why they think grey is the new white for remodeling with current style and lasting appeal.

Grey is Calming

Gray, grey, gris: it doesn’t matter what you call it; grey is a calming color. The first hints of grey in home design started to show up a few years ago. What started as a trend for neutral wall coloring spread to accent pieces, furniture, trim and then on to flooring and countertops. These days even cabinets are being painted grey.

In a world of conflict and chaos, grey stands as the perfect balance between black and white. It doesn’t take sides. The closer you move to black the bolder is gets. The closer it shifts to white the brighter it gets. No matter the shade, grey remains neutral and calming.

Grey is never in your face. Grey is always ready, willing, and able to play a secondary role in your design. Grey doesn’t ask to take the lead; it asks to be the supporting role.

Grey Sets the Stage

Renovation contractors in the know, know that grey is powerful for providing a lasting backdrop. For example, in this bathroom remodel the grey counter top blends into the background allowing the focus to be on the cabinets.

renovation contractor uses grey counter top inn bathroom for timeless look

Grey Vanity Top is Timeless

This bathroom can easily and affordably be updated in the future by painting walls, cabinets, or just adding different colored towels or accent items. The grey allows you to “see” the other colors. Take a look at this kitchen.

renovation contractor uses grey back splash in kitchen for neutrality

Grey in Kitchen Makes Cabinets the Focal Point

If your kitchen is getting a face-lift, talk to the renovation contractor about using grey as part of the design. Kitchen remodels can incorporate grey in the counter tops, backsplashes, or floors. This kitchen uses grey for the counter top and backsplash. Any color appliance will go with this counter and backsplash and the kitchen can be easily updated by painting the cabinets.

Grey In Any Room

Grey can be easily incorporated into any room. Darker greys can provide contrast with lighter colors to make a commanding statement. For example, take a look at the use of grey in this room. The darker grey actually draws the eye to the architectural detail on the mantle and surround of the fireplace. Other more “traditional” colors would not achieve this same effect.

Grey Provides Contrast and Ties Elements Together

Grey not only contrasts with the white paint it also ties the trim and floor colors together. It doesn’t compete with the other colors, it complements it. Walls and trim can be changed with trends, but the grey will always be in fashion.

Get a Renovation Contractor and Design Specialist All in One

When hiring a renovation contractor for your kitchen, bath, or whole house re-do you need someone that understands design as well as construction. Inspired Remodels has been helping property owners in Orange County to achieve their dreams in home improvement for years. As a design build renovation contractor, Inspired Remodels will work with you to come up with a design and palette that fits your lifestyle and will provide years of enjoyment. From the initial design to the final clean-up, Inspired Remodels will be with you every step of the way. If you want a renovation contractor that also understands design, current trends, and what will last and what will not, choose Inspired Remodels.

When work begins, you will be assigned a project manager to be the main point of contact. We know that kitchen and bathroom renovation can be stressful and we want it to be as painless as possible. Inspired Remodels will handle all of the plumbing, electrical, and construction trades involved with your project.

Whether you want grey to be your new white or are inspired to make changes in your home, call Inspired Remodels at (949) 716-1938 or Contact Us online for a consultation.