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Kitchen and Bath Contractors Tips for a Smooth Remodel

Kitchen and bath remodeling requires thinking about everyday activities in a different way. While your new rooms transform, so does your life. Follow these tips from kitchen and bath contractors to live with minimal disruption during the remodeling process.

Kitchen

Set up a mini-kitchen either outside or inside. If outside, you can make use of a propane grill or Coleman Stove. You can even use electric appliances under covered, dry areas when the weather is nice. Thankfully in Southern California, that’s most days.

Inside, designate a space as the temporary kitchen. If you have a utility sink and a front-loading washer and dryer, you have a water source and flat surfaces for preparing and cooking food.

Courtesy Ninja Appliances

Lean heavily into multi-cooker devices like the Ninja multi-cookers that operate as a pressure cooker, slow cooker, air fryer, and food steamer. In place of a multi-cooker, you can use a large toaster oven as your oven and toaster. Either way, make sure you have a mini-microwave and portable fridge.

Invest in disposable utensils, plates, bowls, and cups. No, it’s not the most eco-friendly way to live through a kitchen remodel, but it will save your sanity.

If the laundry room is a no-go space, give your bathrooms a hard look. Look for a water source and flat surfaces

Bathroom

This one is a bit easier. Whether the bath contractor works in the master bathroom or a shared or spare bathroom, you’ll be down one set of sinks, toilet, and bathing area. Most Orange County homes have more than one bathroom. That makes doubling up easier. Easier, not easy.

To make it easy, plan bathing schedules in advance. Split bath and grooming times for family members between mornings and bedtime. If you have a large or busy family, don’t be afraid to post a schedule and make sure everyone sticks to it!

shower caddy showing towels, brushes, shampoo, and conditioner bottle

Get organized & portable with a shower caddy

Use portable storage containers. Shop online or visit your local big box store and look for personal hygiene caddies marketed for dorm living. They make the perfect vessel for organizing and storing your personal care products while you are using a second bathroom.

Don’t forget to take advantage of your gym’s shower facilities. Feel free to use the shower even if you didn’t work out first. Go ahead, you paid for the membership, take full advantage of it!

Design Build Orange County Kitchen and Bath Contractors

Inspired Remodels offers full design and build services. Not all kitchen and bath contractors provide full services.

As design-build contractors, Inspired Remodels provides you with a single point of contact throughout the remodeling process. Remodeling disrupts lives, but working with skilled, caring, and respectful contractors minimizes the disruption.

Before hiring a contractor for a kitchen or bathroom remodel, ask how they will minimize the disruption.

After kitchen remodeler adds open shelves storing white cups and plates

8 Custom Kitchen Remodeling Ideas

By Inspired Remodels / custom cabinets, Home Improvement, Kitchen Remodel / Comments Off

In Orange County, custom kitchen remodeling focuses on creating functional spaces that integrate technology and look as great as the work. Homeowners want kitchens that incorporate light, airy designs, that play off our beautiful natural surroundings. With a focus on indoor-outdoor living, in 2024, custom kitchen remodeling ideas brought to life by Inspired Remodels incorporate blues and greens and favor natural wood finishes. Here are a few custom kitchen remodel trends to inspire you as you dream of your new kitchen.

Open Concept Layout

When it comes to Orange County living, the kitchen remains the heart of the home. Naturally, open kitchen designs continue to be popular. It’s not uncommon for Inspired Remodels to remove walls and rework spaces to create a multifunctional area for cooking, eating, and entertaining.

Open concepts make the most of abundant natural light and make spaces appear larger than they are in reality.

Incorporate High-Tech

From lighting to smart appliances controlled by apps, technology makes its way from Silicon Valley to Saddleback Valley. Induction cooktops keep kitchens cooler and ovens that double as air fryers cook food using healthier methods.

Voice-controlled automation sets a timer and smart lighting options adjust illumination with the tap of a button or your smartphone. If you create a modern kitchen, don’t forget to take advantage of all that modern technology offers.

Functional Sinks and Islands

Sinks provide more than a space to wash your hands or pots and pans. Large workstation sinks and farmhouse sinks offer not only incredible utility but style as well.

Islands now incorporate spaces to prep food, clean up, or eat. Adding water or electricity to a kitchen island increases the possibilities when it comes to design. When used for entertainment, the island also doubles as space for a buffet. Don’t forget to make use of island space for storage as well.

Beverage Stations

Coffee lovers and wine aficionados both incorporate beverage centers to make beverage preparations easier and stylish as well. These stations include appliances like coffee or espresso makers or wine coolers. Once a fringe addition to a high-end custom kitchen, now beverage stations appear in many custom kitchen renovations.

Sustainable and Natural Materials

Natural wood cabinets and natural stone countertops such as quartz continue to be popular in Orange County custom kitchen remodeling projects. Wood floors and even wood-look tile grace custom kitchen floors. This is just one way that kitchen remodeling designs bring the natural beauty of the outdoors into Orange County kitchens.

Drawers Replace Doors

Spacious pull-out drawers replace lower cabinets for storage. Drawers provide more usable space as they make the entire space more accessible and easier to organize. Deep drawers offer an alternative to pull-out hardware in lower cabinets. They represent the next stage in the evolution of kitchen design. Custom and semi-custom cabinetry provides drawers deep enough for pots, pans, and just about anything else you need to store.

Designer Backsplashes

No longer relegated to keeping the area between upper cabinets and countertops clean, backsplashes offer a place to incorporate design elements. From decorative tile to glass mosaics, the backsplash is making a splash in Orange County kitchens.

Nature-Inspired Colors

Warm neutrals and nature-inspired colors like green and blue bring a cozy yet modern feel to Orange County kitchen designs. These colors show up in cabinets, paint, and backsplashes.

Custom Kitchen Remodeling Pros

When you are ready to turn your custom kitchen modeling dreams into reality, turn to Inspired Remodels. Work with a design-build team that offers a single point of contact through the entire process.

Kitchen Cabinet Contractor Tips: 3 Creative Ways to Use Cabinets

By Inspired Remodels / custom cabinets, Kitchen Remodel / Comments Off

If your kitchen remodel includes new kitchen cabinetry, embrace this opportunity to amp up the functionality of your kitchen and squeeze every inch of space from the floorplan. Here are 3 kitchen cabinet contractor tips to using kitchen cabinets creatively.

Use Every Inch of Space

Corners happen. Too often, corners waste precious square inches in a kitchen design. The cabinet design pros at Inspired Remodels see corners as a challenge. These kitchen cabinet contractors turn corners into usable space.

custom kitchen cabinet contractor after pic showing corner base cabinet in cherry finish with doors open

Functional End Cabinet from Schrock Cabinets

This cabinet design turns the corner on dead space. With doors providing access from either side of the corner, this homeowner reclaims this space in the name of storage.

Sure, there are 90-degree corner cabinets that create a dark, cavernous storage space that create a great black hole that sucks in pantry items never to be seen again.

But a savvy kitchen cabinet contractor knows the addition of a Lazy Susan (or revolving tray) makes that space much more usable.

Now, items are easily visible and accessible with just a turn of the revolving tray. Now that’s how to turn dead space into highly usable space. This creates a perfect pantry space for baking supplies, canned goods, or even small appliances such as a hand mixer or immersion blender.

Hide the Trash

Designers may create trash bins they consider works of art. But let’s be honest. A trash can is a trash can and who wants to look at trash?

Base cabinets fitted with pull-out hardware offer a way to separate kitchen trash and recycling while keeping the entire mess out of site. Smaller bins means trash never piles up for days.

Not only does this option keep air fresher than a mechanical trash compactor, it saves money as well. In addition, trash and recycling bins don’t occupy valuable floor space. Looks better, smells better, and makes better use of space.

Organize Organize Organize

Make sure your kitchen cabinet contractor tells you about all the organization options available with semi-custom and custom cabinets.

When it comes to organizing everything from cutlery to Kitchen Aids, rely on your cabinets to make it happen.

Ditch those cheap plastic flatware dividers that never really fit well and opt for built-in cutler dividers to organize those knives, forks, spoons, and anything else your heart desires. Protect your silverware and keep everything neatly stored.

Keeping spices organized is only half the battle. You need to keep them stored neatly and easily accessible. A pull-out spice racks uses very little linear space in the cabinet design but returns a load of storage space.

Spices are visible and accessible from both sides. Adding this option close to food preparation areas ensures what you need is always close at hand.

If you have a passion in the kitchen, share it with your kitchen cabinet contractor. Inspired Remodels outfitted this base cabinet specifically for a busy baker. It offers storage for all the most frequently used items and keeps them together for easy retrieval. The pull-out for the beloved stand mixer also makes the best use of countertop space.

Orange County Kitchen Cabinet Contractor Designs and Builds

Inspired Remodels designs and installs custom and semi-custom cabinets throughout the Orange County California area. Schedule a consultation and find out the creative use of cabinets makes your kitchen more functional, more spacious, and more beautiful.

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