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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.

Orange County Kitchen Remodeling Services

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Nothing imparts your personal style like your kitchen. Whether you are an Iron Chef or the Queen of the Microwave, your kitchen should be a reflection of your style. If your ready to let your kitchen reflect your personality, then its time for a professional kitchen remodeling job.

Successful Kitchen Remodeling Job Tips

There’s more to a successful kitchen remodel that wandering through a showroom, picking out some cabinets and selecting paint color. You need to identify what you need, what you want, and your budget.

Dream Book. Start collecting pictures from magazines, on-line articles, and Pinterest. If you are one of the last remaining people that haven’t used Pinterest, now is the time to start. Identify what you like and what you dislike. As you look at pictures note what colors, lines, and textures appeal to you. When you have a dream book, it is much easier to sit down with your designer and communicate your wishes. Speaking of wishes, make sure that you include a wish list. If you have special desires, such as certain cabinet features or countertop height, include those in the wish list as well.

Determine Budget. Know how much you are willing to spend before you sit down with a designer. Don’t be afraid to tell the designer upfront any cost concerns you have. A seasoned designer can work within your budget constraints to come up with a design that meets your needs. But, they need to know the budget upfront. As a rule, you can figure that your budget will be allocated:

30% Cabinets
23% Design and Installation
15% Walls, Ceilings, Floors
12% Appliances
10% Counters
10% Electrical, Plumbing, Ventilation

Your budget will always go further if you keep the existing layout. This stretches the budget because electrical, plumbing, and walls don’t need to be moved.

Pick the Right Kitchen Remodel Partner – Why Chose A Design Build Firm

This is by far the most important step in a successful kitchen remodeling. Instead of hiring a designer and then picking a building contractor, pick a design and build firm from the beginning. In the long run you will save money and have much less stress. A design and build company like Inspired Remodels has the staff necessary to provide the design services to bring your kitchen remodel dreams to life and the construction crew to make it happen.

Inspired Remodels will perform a consultation with you in your existing kitchen. Then taking into account your vision for the completed project and your budget they will artfully craft a design that incorporates colors, lines, and textures to achieve the look you want.

There’s no scratching your head while you look at blueprints when you work with Inspired Remodels. Before you approve your kitchen remodel you will review a CADD design that allows you to view a 3-D rendering of your new kitchen. This 3-D rendering will reflect your kitchen layout and incorporate the cabinet finishes you have selected.

If you are ready for an amazing kitchen, you are ready for an Inspired Remodel. Call (949) 716-1938 or use our Contact Us form.