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Orange County Flooring Contractor Gives 3 Reasons to Love Hard Floors

This article was originally published on April 8, 2016. It has been updated to reflect the most current trends in Orange County flooring.

Wood, wood-look tiles, and bamboo flooring continue to be trendy. Designers and homeowners love the way wood and bamboo flooring bring warmth to any room. If you ask a flooring contractor, they will tell you the benefits of hard surface floors for almost any home. Inspired Remodels, the expert flooring contractor in Orange County, shares 3 reasons to love hard surface flooring.

Hard Flooring For Better Health

Hard surface flooring offers health benefits you just can’t ignore. Every flooring contractor knows carpeting harbors dust, dust mites, pet allergens, mold spores, and pollen. These substances comprise the most common household allergens. So, why would you ever put them in a house where people with allergies live? Many companies offer products and surfaces to clean carpets. But no method or product can properly clean the carpet to the backing and remove allergens. Most carpet cleaning methods end up making allergies worse as they leave carpets and rugs damp and promote the growth of mold.

When you clean a hard surface floor, it is clean. While you might get mold growth in the grout between tiles (especially in a badly designed bathroom with poor circulation) mold will not grow on the tile itself. Vacuuming, damp mopping, and dry mopping remove dirt, debris, and allergens from a hard surface floor. Cleaner floors result in better indoor air quality, fewer allergies, and better health.

Ceramic and porcelain tile made to emulate wood creates a spa-like feeling to Orange County bathrooms. It looks like wood, some tiles even emulate the texture of wood grain, and only you will know its tile.

Hard Flooring is Easy to Maintain

Hard surface flooring such as wood, tile, polished cement, or stone is relatively easy to maintain. It resists stains. You can track in dirt and debris and it can be easily removed by cleaning.

Spill wine on your tile floor and it wipes up. No one cries over milk spilled on a wood, tile, or stone floor. Kitchens across Orange County cry out for hard surface floors!

With carpeting and rugs, you cry over every spill, every stain, and every footstep that dirties the surface. Not so with hard surface flooring.

Flooring Contractors Know Tile & Wood Flooring Lasts

When you hire a reputable Orange County flooring contractor like Inspired Remodels to install your floors, you know your flooring will last. Wood and bamboo flooring require acclimation before installation. If your flooring contractor skips this step, prepare for problems. That’s never a worry with Inspired Remodels.

With proper care and cleaning, your tile and stone floors last for 20 years or more. When wood floors become scuffed, scarred, and worn-looking, simply refinish them.

Can any carpet stand up to 20 years of daily use? When it looks bad, can you refinish your carpet?

No, of course not! When you consider higher initial cost over a much longer life, you’ll agree with flooring contractors that hard surface flooring provides a cost-effective option.

Best Flooring from the Best Flooring Contractor

If you are thinking about new flooring for your Orange County home, talk to the best Orange County flooring contractors. Make an appointment with Inspired Remodels. Inspired Remodels is the Orange County flooring expert.

Inspired Remodels recommends a hard flooring surface that fits your style and budget. Whether you need to replace the flooring in one room or the whole house, Inspired Remodels has you covered.

Need inspiration? Let an Inspired Remodels designer help you pick the hard surface flooring right for you.

Contact us today.

Orange County General Contractors Create Fireplaces with Flare

By Inspired Remodels / Bathroom Remodel, Home Improvement / Comments Off

Does the thought of fall and cooler temperatures have you dreaming of curling up by the fireplace? Fireplaces add an unmistakable warmth to any room. Today’s fireplaces complement rather than dominate a room. That’s because modern fireplaces no longer act as a home’s main source of heat. Check out what happens when one set of Orange County general contractors play around with fire. The results are fabulous.

Old World Charm in Modern Home

This room received a total makeover. It’s easy to imagine yourself in a pub in any town in Ireland (or the rest of the European continent).

Somehow, that Irish whiskey or red ale just tastes better when enjoyed by a fire. The same stone used in the bar area extends out to create a home for the fireplace and a TV. This space was made for enjoying a pint of Harp while the Shamrock Rovers tear it up on the telly.

Why General Contractors Recommend Gas Fireplaces for Orange County Homes

Where you find new fireplaces installed in Orange County, you’ll find the fireplaces are gas-burning appliances.

General contractors install gas burners over wood burners for many reasons. To begin with, a gas fireplace saves a renovating homeowner money. Adding a fireplace after construction costs much less because a chimney doesn’t need to be added as well. As long as the fireplace has ventilation, it is safe.

Many gas-burning fireplaces feature a tempered glass front to create radiant heat. Homeowners use this radiant heat source to take the chill off one room without the need to heat the entire house.

Eco-warriors love gas-burning fireplaces as well. They don’t create soot or ash emissions, so they keep the air clean. No trees are harmed when enjoying a gas fireplace.

Unusual Fireplaces

A creative general contractor knows how to incorporate fireplaces into just about any space.

This fireplace makes good use of limited space in the bathroom. As a bonus, two-sided fireplaces provide two heating surfaces and more angles from which to enjoy the fire.

Bathroom fireplaces offer the ultimate luxury touch. Elevate your soaking tub experience with an exquisite fireplace in your bathroom.

General Contractors for Fireplaces and More

Trust Inspired Remodels with all your remodeling needs. From adding a fireplace to a full room, Inspired Remodels offers full design/build services for the Orange County area.

Tips from Kitchen and Bath Contractors Make Holiday Guests Feel at Home

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Holiday guests en route to your house? Use this as an opportunity to spruce up a few things in the kitchen and bath. Inspired Remodels, the Orange County kitchen and bath contractors, knows how to create comfortable, beautiful, and useful spaces.

Use their tips to create spaces that help your holiday guests feel right at home.

In the Kitchen

Clean out the inside of your refrigerator. There’s no time like the present to toss out those unidentifiable leftovers or that condiment you’ve had for so long you can’t remember when or why you purchased it.

Wipe down countertops and appliances so the kitchen sparkles.

Leave coffee mugs out by the coffee pot. If you have a single-serve (Keurig-style) coffee pot, make sure it’s filled with water and the K-cups are next to the pot. Want to wow guests? Toss in a few pods of apple cider or herbal tea.

Create a snacking station. Whether you set out a few local delicacies on the kitchen island or assemble a tray of cookies by the coffee pot, make grabbing a snack easy.

In the Bathroom

Even rooms that lack frequent use still get dirty. Make sure to go over the guest bathroom quickly with a dusting cloth.

Dust settles on even the cleanest vanity tops, mirrors, and the backs of toilets. So, send the dust bunnies scurrying to another house.

Give your guests a 5-star hotel feeling by leaving a carefully curated selection of luxury soaps, lotions, and other toiletries.

Set out plush, absorbent towels for guests. You can place these on the edge of the bathtub or at the foot of the bed in the guest bedroom.

Make sure at least one cabinet or drawer is empty, so guests have a place to store their own personal care items, medications, and hygiene items.

In the Bedroom

Carry that luxury hotel feeling from the bathroom into the bedroom. Splurge on high thread count sheets. These days, most fine bed linens are permanent press. But, for an over-the-top experience, iron pillowcases and the top edge of the flat bedsheet.

Clear out some room in the closet to hang clothes and store luggage. If you have a dresser or chest of drawers, provide ample room for guest to stow their clothing.

Leave a slip of paper with the wi-fi name and password, operating instructions for any heating or air conditioning in the room, and key codes for entry doors.

Special Message from Inspired Remodels, Orange County Kitchen And Bath Contractors

Inspired Remodels wants our customers to know we appreciate their business.

This Thanksgiving and all year long, we are thankful for the opportunity to serve Orange County homeowners and property managers.

From dream kitchens to the bathroom of your dreams, you can trust Inspired Remodels.