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Are you looking to do some remodeling or renovating of your Orange County home? Many local handymen offer services, but should you trust one to remodel your kitchen or bath? Orange County general contractors like Inspired Remodels are much more than handymen, they are seasoned, licensed, and insured construction professionals. Here’s what makes them more than just a handyman.

Relevant Experience

If you are changing more than just the hardware on your cabinets, you want experienced professionals. Heck, you can change cabinet knobs, pulls, and handles yourself. But if you are installing custom cabinetry, new lighting, removing or building walls, or moving appliances or bathroom fixtures, you need an experienced professional.

General contractors have experience in construction, remodeling, and renovation before they even sit for their licensing exam. Their license application requires disclosure of their educational and work experience.

Pass Multiple Examinations

There’s no professional examination for a handyman.

Your Orange County general contractor must pass a minimum of two state-level exams. The first exam tests their knowledge of building codes and best practices for building in California.

A second exam tests their knowledge of business practices, concepts, and law. Not only must they know construction law, they must also have a working knowledge of general business law in California.

In addition, prospective contractors may sit for a trade examination as well. The California State Licensing Board offers professional licenses in plumbing, electrical, and other trades.

Bonded and Insured

A general contractor receives their license only after proving they have a liability bond and insurance. And, they continue to provide this proof each time their license is renewed.

Also, contractors carry liability insurance and worker’s compensation insurance in case anyone gets hurt on the job. Did you know that if a handyman gets hurt working at your house, you are responsible for their medical bills.? You must file a claim with your homeowner’s insurance or else pay medical bills out of pocket if that handyman gets hurt.

Knowledge of Local Code, Permit Requirements, and Suppliers

Your general contractor knows the building code and when your municipality requires a permit. In addition, Orange County general contractors like Inspired Remodels maintain close relationships with suppliers and subcontractors. This gives you access to materials and workers the handyman can’t bring to the table.

Permits and inspections may feel like a hassle, but you can be responsible for unpermitted repairs if they fail inspection when you decide to sell your house. That’s pennywise and pound-foolish.

Inspired Remodels – Your Orange County General Contractors

The Mueller brothers at Inspired Remodels stand ready to serve as your Orange County general contractors. Their design and build approach ensure that you maintain one point of contact through the process. From the initial design work to cleaning the last spot of glass, Inspired Remodels takes care of the entire project.

Trust a general contractor with your job. Trust Inspired Remodels.

Earlier this month, we peeked into some Orange County bathroom remodels. Today let’s see what your neighbors have been doing in the kitchen. Inspired Remodels, the Orange County general contractors that have been cooking with fire, share some of their recent kitchen remodel projects. Check these designs out from the Facebook page.

Dining In in Dove Canyon

Well, you can’t go out to eat in a restaurant. Might as well have a stunning place to eat in when you must eat in night after night.

This Dove Canyon kitchen remodel provides two spaces for sharing a meal or a snack. Families can gather at a table sized kitchen island or at a more traditional setting with table and chairs.

Either space offers comfortable room for playing board games, sharing a fondue, or eating family-style. You could even combine the two spaces using the island as a buffet space and the table for seating and eating. And don’t laugh at the fondue, fondue is making a comeback – don’t laugh.

Kitchen islands are so cool they’re hot right now.

Even though you may be hosting large gatherings less you may be entertaining small groups more. Even if it’s just the immediate family.

Face it, everyone wants a reason to celebrate – from losing a tooth to just surviving another week. Tuesday can be a reason to celebrate. And a kitchen island is the best place to celebrate.

Orange County homeowners opt to add functionality to their islands by adding prep sinks, electrical outlets to power portable appliances, plenty of lighting and a surface area providing room to do schoolwork or eat a meal.

Psst, check out the herringbone pattern on the floor. It makes this space look larger!

Shining a Light in Mission Viejo

This small kitchen is big on style and functionality and punches above its weight due to the abundance of light.

Start with the natural sunlight that streams unfettered through the window. Add a layer of light with recessed top hat lights and top it off with downlights from pendents.

Now you’ve got light to lift your mood from the window, lights for ambience from the pendents, and functional lights from the recessed lights.

A combination of light, white cabinets, a neutral backsplash and floors, and stainless appliances makes the most of this small kitchen. Black accents contrast contrast beautifully for a sleek, modern look.

You don’t need to fall back on black and white when adding lights. In this Orange County kitchen remodel, the downlights are blue, the cabinets are a beautiful birch, and matching countertops and backsplash pull it together.

Even though this picture was taken at night, you can see the window provides plenty of light when the sun comes up.

This kitchen not only uses recessed lighting it also includes under the cabinet lighting for ambience or additional task lighting during meal prep.

Nothing lifts the mood like light. Be sure your Orange County kitchen has plenty.

Stunning Style in Rancho Santa Margarita

Small spaces can be a challenge for some Orange County general contractors. Not Inspired Remodels.

This small kitchen space in Rancho Santa Margarita applies the kitchen triangle concept for functionality. The palette is neutral without being boring.

For example, the variety of tones in the herringbone backsplash provide visual interest. Sure, white subway tile would have been more traditional, but it certainly wouldn’t elevate the small space in the same way.

Another way to make small spaces appear larger is the use of open shelves and cabinets.

The glass front cabinets in this kitchen serve two purposes. First they provide space to display the homeowner’s kitchen treasures. Second, they trick the eye into seeing the space as larger than it is.

It’s a visual trick because the eye sees beyond the cabinet door front to the rear wall of the cabinet. So, the eye sees to the wall and not the cabinet door. It’s a small thing, but with small spaces, those little things add up.

The trim and mouldings aren’t fussy or ornate so they draw the eye out. Clean lines make small spaces look larger too.

Orange County General Contractors for Kitchen Remodels

If you want a kitchen like one of these call on Inspired Remodels. They are the design/build Orange County general contractors that not only build kitchens, they design them too.

From start to end you get personal attention and professional design and build services. Schedule your consultation. Call (949) 716-1938.

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