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Remodeling Contractor Uses Lighting for Ambiance and Function

You spend a considerable amount of time in the kitchen and bathroom. When the lighting is poor, it totally spoils the visual appeal of the room. Even worse, it makes using the room for its intended function a nightmare. Who wants to shave or cut up vegetables when you can’t see what you are doing? You must choose lighting options carefully. One sign of a competent remodeling contractor is their ability to incorporate creative lighting. How does your contractor stand up?

Creative Bathroom Lighting Ideas

Bathroom lighting sets the mood for the room. It should also provide enough light to perform personal hygiene routines safely. You need several types of lighting in the bathroom. Try these creative ideas.

Use dimmers

You want bright light for shaving, showering, or applying makeup. But that’s not the light you want soaking in the tub. Dimmer switches allow you to adjust the intensity of the light to suit your moods and needs.

Task lighting

For task lighting, you divide the bathroom into zones. This allows you to focus illumination where you need it. For example, the vanity zone is equipped with a brighter task light than the water closet or toilet zone. The bathing zone utilizes separate task lighting. This approach allows to illuminate each zone with the appropriate amount of lighting, or the tasks performed in the zone.

Focused lighting

Recessed lights are another great idea. The lighting cans are installed flush with the ceiling and flood light downwards. They are excellent for lighting up the entire space. Install this style of lighting by mirrors to enhance the effect.

Layer lighting for a dramatic effect

Layered lighting is a lighting system that incorporates three different kinds of lights: overall, task and accent. Overall lights are generally recessed lights that illuminate the room, while task lights illuminate zones based on function. Accent lights in the bathroom might be pendant lights, profile lights, or backlit mirrors.

Kitchen Lighting Ideas

The kitchen is a room for gathering and working. Whether you are prepping a meal, enjoying a bite with family or friends, or cleaning up, it’s important to see what you are doing. Talk to your kitchen remodeling contractor about using some of these “bright” ideas.

Brighten up the kitchen island

If the kitchen island is your pride and joy, show it off with ceiling lights. Use hanging lights to provide task lighting and give the space an industrial vibe at the same time – perfect for modern kitchens.

Create a vintage vibe

All pendant lighting doesn’t need to look industrial. Milk glass and tulip style shades provide a very subtle vintage vibe. Even if you are going for a farmhouse look, the vintage aura makes the kitchen warm and welcoming. Rubbed bonze is a great metal for creating that vintage vibe.

Pendant lights for all kitchens

No matter if your kitchen is modern, traditional, rustic, vintage, or farmhouse, pendant lights suit all styles. Space them evenly and either hang them at the same height or varying heights depending on the look you want.

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Its the Little Things That Count for This Kitchen Contractor

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Does your kitchen contractor have an eye for the little things? Those simple touches that make the difference between a vanilla remodel and an inspired remodel? If Jason and Joe Mueller from Inspired Remodels are on the job you don’t have to worry. Their kitchen remodels incorporate the little touches that make every job custom.

Get the Lighting Right

Dimmable lights

This Trabuco Canyon remodel combines natural and artificial light to create a space that provides practical lighting for work and mood lighting for play. Natural light streams in through the window above the sink when wanted. Fabric blinds block the light when it’s not.

Under cabinet lighting is perfect for tasks such as mixing, cutting, and other activities where you really need to see what you are doing. Ever struggled to read a measuring cup? If so, then you know adding just the right amount and type of light is important. Your kitchen contractor should know this too.

When it comes to mood lighting, it might be tempting to use lights in the top of decorative cabinets. Resist the temptation. If shelves are solid, only the top shelf will get the light right. However, this remodel worked with a local carpenter to ensure the cabinets showcased their wares with backlights. Each shelf is illuminated. It’s just one of those little details an inspired kitchen contractor incorporates. Dimmable switches are another nice touch. If your kitchen is part of an open concept design, controlling the light from the kitchen area is important. Dimming switches make that possible.

Form Meets Function and Creates Fashion

Kitchens are work rooms. No matter if you are a daily gourmet chef or a week-end waffle wielding Brunch artist, your kitchen provides room to cook and eat. That means its a room that must be above all, usable. The right kitchen contractor incorporates those little things that not only make a room easier to use, they make it easier to look at. For example, this same Trabuco Canyon remodel needed to incorporate in-kitchen eating space. So, the island does double duty. No big deal, but what is a big deal are the additional footrests. These bring beauty to the space with their simple design and add function because it keeps shoes off the cabinets. Adults and children alike are guilty of scuffing island cabinets when eating. Instead of the owner spending time cleaning and repairing shoe damage to the surface, the kitchen contractor spent just a little time and material to incorporate a footrest. See, it’s just those little things that make a difference.

The Kitchen Contractor for Orange County Remodels

Inspired Remodels is the kitchen contractor for inspired Orange County remodels. No touch is too small, no request is too large. Talk to Inspired Remodels about how you use your kitchen space and let them plan a remodel that’s truly inspired. Call (949) 716-1938 or Contact Us online 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.