A mudroom works when it sits at the door your family uses most, with a spot for each person’s things. For most families, the laundry works best near the bedrooms or near the mudroom.
A main floor reconfiguration usually starts with the kitchen. It can mean taking out walls, adding beams, and moving plumbing, electrical, and HVAC so you can use your main floor better.
A kitchen remodel can turn into a whole-home remodel because moving the kitchen changes how the whole floor works. That’s what happened on one Fairfax whole-home project.
5 of the most common remodeling worries are a budget that climbs, a schedule that slips, poor communication, poor workmanship, and a home that’s hard to live in during the work. Each one can be planned for before the work starts.
Remodeling an older Northern Virginia home can cost more, because the plumbing, electrical, and structure may have to be fixed first, and some problems stay hidden until the walls are open.
A low ceiling doesn’t always rule out a finished basement. Find out which duct, pipe or beam hangs lowest and whether it can move, then plan the ceiling, floor and lighting around the height that’s left.
A remodel quote usually goes up because something wasn’t known or decided yet, like what’s behind a wall or which cabinets you’ll pick. Checking behind the walls and making your selections first means a price change from either one shows up before you sign.
Neither is better for every house. Phases work well when you want to see whether you like a remodeler’s process first, or when you aren’t sure yet what you want for the rest of the house. All at once makes sense when you couldn’t live there during the work.
A kitchen in the wrong corner cuts off every sight line in the house. Learn what comes out, what gets absorbed, and what stays when a main floor is reworked.
Layout regret is the expensive kind, because a wall in the wrong place sits over drains that are already cut. See how the whole plan gets approved in 3D first.
Tell us what you’ve been imagining and we’ll show you exactly what’s possible.
Tell us what you’ve been imagining and we’ll show you exactly what’s possible.
Tell us what you’ve been imagining and we’ll show you exactly what’s possible.
