Planning a Sacramento Home Remodel In Stages?
So you want to remodel your kitchen and you want to remove a wall and open it up to the rest of the living space and add an island. You envision replacing the outdated aluminum sliding doors with beautiful French doors and you’ll have to reconfigure the layout a bit. You plan on getting rid of the carpet and installing hardwood and new base boards. Lastly, you have a few pieces of furniture that you need to incorporate into the new space like a buffet or sideboard and don’t forget the dining room table and chairs.
The problem is, you don’t have enough money to accomplish all of it at once and the remodel is going to have to occur in stages. So where do you begin to ensure that when the kitchen cabinets have been installed that the French doors are perfectly centered? If you are removing a wall, the sideboard will need to go under that window and you need to take into consideration that when the hardwood goes in, the floor will be raised ½ to ¾ of an inch. You will need enough space so that when the dining chairs are pulled out they aren’t butting up against the kitchen island.
Planning a remodel in stages requires very meticulous and careful planning. The goal at the end is to make the space look as if it had always been that way. If you and your contractor aren’t thinking of step 37 when you are at step 3, you are going to end up spending a lot of money fixing things that could have been avoided with some simple pre-planning and careful measurements. This is one of the biggest mistakes that DIY-ers make, and one that less than meticulous contractors don’t consider.
Elite Construction and Remodeling specializes in large scale kitchen remodels, but that doesn’t mean that everything has to be done at once. Often when we are doing a full home remodel we are replacing windows and doors to make the older home more energy efficient and removing walls. One of the things that home owners and other contractors rarely consider is that when walls are removed, there is less space for art and furniture.
The last thing you want when the remodel is said and done is that you are selling your heirloom hutch and putting your favorite painting in the garage because you didn’t plan for where they would go when the remodel began. When we begin a large scale remodel, we take everything into consideration and ensure that everything has a place and looks like it was supposed to be there. Windows may need to be moved to account for the hardwood or reduced in size to free up valuable wall space. The final configuration of the cabinets needs to be based on the size of a standard sized French door opening. The alternative is that you spend a fortune on custom French doors and reframing the wall.
If you are planning a large scale remodel for your home, choose a contractor who has the forethought to consider your family’s important belongings, the way you will use the space, and most importantly what the final result will look like. This one simple choice can save you tens of thousands of dollars and ensure that your remodeled space looks like it was custom tailored for you, because it will have been.