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Orange County Flooring Contractor Shares 3 Ways Hard Floors are Better

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Flooring for your home represents a significant financial outlay. Anytime you spend that much money, you want to know you are getting the best product for your home and health. So what floors are the best? Hard flooring in any form is the healthiest choice. Inspired Remodels, a popular Orange County flooring contractor shares why hard floors make the healthiest homes.

A cat and carpet together are not a good idea

Reason 1 – Hard Flooring Reduces Allergens

Hard floors make healthier floors because they reduce the number of allergens in your home. Place carpets and rugs on your floors and install allergen magnets.

Textile flooring collects dust, pollen, molds, dust, dust mites, and pet allergens. Then, each time a person walks on the carpet or rug, their feet send a cloud of allergens up into the air. Even if you run HEPA air cleaners, you aren’t going to collect all the allergens.

That allergen cloud wafts up to sensitive noses and soon there’s sneezing, wheezing, coughing, and watery eyes. Textile flooring might be a good look for the floor, but it’s not a good look for your health.

And these days, everybody is concerned about health.

Wood, stone, and tile flooring refuse to collect allergens. They just won’t do it. That’s because they are easy to clean. This leads us to reason number 2.

Hard floors and cats are a better idea

Reason 2 – Hard Flooring is Easy to Keep Clean

Hard floors provide no place for dirt or allergens to hide. Unlike textile flooring with fibers, nooks, and crannies, hard flooring offers a smooth surface.

Whether you vacuum or damp mop, you’ll remove the dirt. Where vacuuming carpets sends dust flying, vacuuming hard floors with a horsehair brush dislodges dust without making it airborne.

Carpeting represents multiple layers of textiles. Not only does the carpet collect dirt, but dirt falls between the fibers to the padding underneath. Face it, you are never going to clean that padding. You can pay someone to clean your carpet, but it won’t really be clean. And, the padding stays dirty.

Clean a wood, tile, or stone floor and it is really clean. And it will stay clean longer provided you remove your shoes before coming inside.

Reason 3 – Hard Flooring Improves Planet Health

For the most part, textile flooring comes from synthetic materials. These materials are carbon-based. Oil and minerals are extracted, refined, processed, and spun to create fibers. It consumes vasts amounts of energy and isn’t renewable.

Compare that with bamboo flooring. Bamboo flooring provides the most eco-friendly option in hard flooring. Any Orange County flooring contractor in the know knows that bamboo beats other hardwoods when it comes to hardness. Bamboo harvested from managed farms renews in 5 to 7 years. You can’t say that for an oak tree.

Ceramic tile is also eco-friendly. Yes, it is mined but unlike carpet, ceramic lasts up to 50 years. So you enjoy many years of use when compared to carpeting or other textile floorings that must be continually replaced.

Orange County Flooring Contractor Knows Flooring

Talk to Inspired Remodels about your flooring needs. Inspired Remodels is the Orange County flooring contractor that matches your lifestyle and budget to the best flooring for your home.

Stop by the showroom, call (949) 716-1938, or Contact Us online.

From flooring to fixtures and finishes, Inspired Remodels is Orange County’s premier home remodeling company.

Psst – need a little inspiration? Check out the portfolio of Orange County flooring projects.

Kitchen Remodel Company Dishes on Islands

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In Orange County, no custom kitchen remodel is complete unless it includes an island. Inspired Remodels, Orange County’s inspired kitchen remodel company, dishes on what makes a kitchen island an asset, not a liability. From providing an extra dining space to adding an additional prep area, Orange County kitchen islands earn their keep.

Island-Style Dining

Island dining doesn’t always include ocean breezes, blue water, and tropical landscapes. In Orange County, you can enjoy a view of the Pacific with your bowl of cereal when Inspired Remodels adds an island to your kitchen. This is a kitchen remodel company that understands the versatility of the kitchen island.

Some want a casual dining experience. This kitchen island provides seating for 3. When not in use, barstools tuck under the island. Legs add a table vibe to this kitchen island. Incorporating seating into the kitchen island converts this small kitchen into an eat-in kitchen. It’s island dining at its most functional.

Not all island dining is so informal. Now, this kitchen island can seat up to 12 or serve a buffet for a crowd. The more formal lighting gives the island a more formal feel. When you dream big, make sure you’ve got a kitchen remodel company that understands your vision.

Islands that Work

Kitchen islands offer a great opportunity to create efficient work triangles. Work triangles create a kitchen where key elements such as the sink, stovetop, and refrigerator are places for easy access. When you reduce the number of steps between work elements, you create a more efficient workspace. Genius!

The kitchen remodel above updated a large kitchen space. Large kitchens provide plenty of room for the cook, but they also present a challenge. How can the cook work without running ragged? Too many steps are like too many cooks, they ruin the dish.

By placing the cooktop on the kitchen island, the kitchen remodel company reduced the number of steps between the sink, fabulous fridge, and cooking area.

Here’s another take on the working island. In this instance, the sink resides in the island with the range/oven combo behind the island and the refrigerator on the side of the island.

Sometimes just one island won’t do.

This Cota da Caza kitchen remodel incorporates islands for dining and islands for work. It’s a fearless commitment to island living.

Seriously, one island incorporates a wine fridge and a sink. The sink placement completes a perfect work triangle. The second island offers seating for 5 and additional storage. In a large space, these two islands provide retain the feeling of spaciousness for entertaining large groups while creating an intimacy perfect for family dining.

Orange County’s Kitchen Remodel Company

Looking for the ultimate in kitchen remodeling? Look no further than Inspired Remodels. Orange County turns to Inspired Remodels when they want an inspired remodel.

Custom and semi-custom cabinets
Flooring
Lighting
Islands
Hoods
Appliances

What do you want in your dream kitchen? Inspired Remodels converts dreams into kitchens.

Orange County Bathroom Designers Create Inspired Bathrooms

By Inspired Remodels / Bathroom Remodel / Comments Off

Who doesn’t want Calgon to take them away from it all? Inspired Remodels, the Orange County bathroom designers creating inspired bathrooms, delivers. Check out the latest in Orange County bathroom remodels and designs.

Old is New

Roman showers are making a comeback in Orange County bathrooms. They make neat freaks happy and send designers to cloud nine.

Roman showers require no door or curtain. Their architecture keeps water contained by design.

This Aliso Viejo bathroom remodel incorporates coordinating tile and glass to create a partial wall. The wall extends far enough out to contain spray from the showerhead but does not obstruct the view or airflow.

That airflow excites the neat freaks. Increasing airflow decreases drying time in the shower. Not for the person taking a shower, but for the shower construction materials. The faster the tile, stone, and grout dry the shorter time available for moisture to support mold growth. Roman showers are incredibly easy to keep clean.

Designers love Roman showers because they make small spaces look large and increase the amount of light in a room. With no visual barriers, they create a timeless and elegant look.

By placing this Roman shower by a window, the design maximizes the natural light. No curtain blocks the light and the window height ensures privacy. Marble and glass come together for a look you expect to find in a five-star hotel, but it’s just another wonderful Orange County bathroom by Inspired Remodels.

Let There Be Light

Savvy Orange County bathroom designers know how to work with light. Whether it’s natural light, task lighting, overhead functional lights, or lights that create art.

Inspired Remodels incorporates lighting of every kind to create rooms that are functional and beautiful.

How’s this chandelier? It brings together lighting and art to create a piece that’s at home in a spa or a museum.

Remember to use dimming switches for lighting that sets a mood.

On the other hand, you need bright task lighting by mirrors and sinks. No one wants to shave in the dark and there’s nothing worse than getting in the car only to discover that blusher isn’t blended. Inspired Remodel designs always incorporate lighting by sinks and mirrors to help you see clearly.

This bathroom incorporates overhead lights as well as downlights and uplights so you see from every angle.

Let These Orange County Bathroom Designers Make Your Dreams Come True

Stop dreaming about that perfect bathroom. Whether you want a luxury master bathroom, a sensational guest bathroom, or a half bath that’s amazing, turn to Inspired Remodels. This family-owned and operated bathroom design and build firm turns dreams into reality.

And, the design-build process removes much of the stress from the bathroom remodeling process. Your bathroom designers work for the same company as your bathroom contractors. You always have one point of contact and one less thing to worry about.

Stop by the Inspired Remodels showroom, book a consultation, call (949) 716- 1938, or Contact Us online.

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