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Flooring Contractor Recommends Hard Surface Floors for Orange County Homes

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Wood, wood look tiles, marble, and porcelain tiles dominate remodeling trends for at least 10 years now. And that’s for good reason. Some designers and decorators are starting to introduce carpeting again. But Inspired Remodels, the expert flooring contractor in Orange County still recommends hard surface floors.  There are many reasons to love hard floors. Here are three:

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Hard Flooring Improves Air Quality

Californians concern themselves with air pollution. But most of the focus is on the outside air.  Breather cleaner indoor air when you have hard surface floors.

Carpeting provides a safe harbor for dust, dust mites, pet allergens, mold spores, and grains of pollen.  These common household allergens are hard to get out of rugs and carpets.  Carpet cleaning companies promise to  “clean” carpets, but no company actually removes all soil and allergens to the depth of the backing. Unfortunately, too many carpet cleaning methods make surfaces dirtier. Improper extraction methods leave behind water and cleaning solutions and this promotes the growth of mold and increases dust mite populations. Ewww!

On the other hand, clean a hard surface floor and it is clean. Vacuum, damp mop, and Swiffer to your heart’s content. These actions remove dirt, debris, and allergens from your floors. Removing dust and allergens from the floor improves indoor air quality because once they are gone, you can’t breathe them.

Vacuum wood or tile floors with a HEPA filtered vacuum and clean the air even more.

Hard Flooring is Easy to Maintain

Hard floors like wood, tile, polished cement or stone are relatively easy to maintain.  Solid flooring resists stains. Even when you track dirt and debris inside, it’s easy to remove.

Spill red wine on the tile floor in the kitchen and just wipe it up.  There’s no crying over spilled milk, splashed cereal, or dropped peanut butter sandwiches. Just clean it up with a damp rag or paper towel. Grout may need sealing, but your tile floors will continue to be worry-free.

When you have carpet or rugs on the floor, every party and every dinner is a disaster waiting to happen. Your guests feel terrible for staining the floors and you feel bad too. Any flooring contractor will tell you the way to avoid the drama is to avoid the carpet.

Talk to the Best Flooring Contractor About the Best Floors For You

Talk to the flooring experts at Inspired Remodels about your flooring project.

Based on your lifestyle, budget, design preferences, and other considerations you’ll receive a custom recommendation. Every lifestyle is different, every flooring install should reflect these differences.

Contact Inspired Remodels, the flooring contractor that knows flooring for Orange County homes.

 

Orange County General Contractors Share 2021 Design Trends

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A new year means new design trends. Inspired Remodels, the Orange County general contractors with their finger on the pulse of design, share the big trends of 2021.

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Wood and Wood Look Floors

Orange County loves wood and wood look floors. That won’t change in 2021.

Pick a room, pick a look, pick the most appropriate flooring.

Living areas, dining rooms, bedrooms, hallways, and home offices sport wood and wood-look flooring.

2021 finds Orange County general contractors nailing and gluing down hardwoods, floating engineered click-lock flooring, and laying wood-look ceramic and porcelain tiles.

 

general contractors creates shower out of wood look tile for natural effectAnd wood-look tiles show up on more than floors.  This beautiful shower liberally draws on nature. Wood-look tile for walls and seat is the perfect complement to the river stone floor. This type of tile works perfectly in wet areas where wood just won’t do.

Wood or wood-look tile? Can you tell the difference? The wood-look tile of 2021 looks more like wood than the wood itself. Grain and color gradations emulate natural wood closely. Some flooring products feature distressed surfaces as well. So, you can get the look of weathered and repurposed wood in a more durable product that costs much less money as well.

2021 is going to be a great year for flooring.

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Colored Cabinets

Colored cabinets are back. Whether it’s a contrasting color for upper and lower cabinets, a specimen piece for a bar, or even a kitchen island, colored cabinets turn up in unexpected places in 2021.

Gray trended for the last 5 years. So, it’s no surprise that blue would become one of the most popular cabinet colors. It pairs perfectly with gray!

In the kitchen, navy blue lower cabinets put the shine on stainless steel appliances and contrast beautifully with stark white upper cabinets. And blue goes well with so many wood flooring options to boot!

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Here’s a different room, a different blue cabinet, and different flooring. But it still works wonderfully. The blue bathroom vanity with white top and white hexagon ceramic tile with grey grout takes all the elements we saw in the kitchen above and creates a look that’s completely different.

That’s the flexibility of colored cabinets, and blue is the color for cabinets in 2021.

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Bamboo Flooring

Eco-conscious consumers flock to bamboo flooring. It’s renewable and much harder than other hardwood floorings. Strand woven bamboo flooring goes places where wood cowers.

Perfect for high traffic areas like kitchens, entryways, and hallways. Contrary to popular belief, bamboo floors stand up to refinishing.

Be sure to look for bamboo flooring that’s FloorScore certified. You’ll breathe easier knowing your flooring does off-gas harmful chemicals.

To 2021 and Beyond!

Hope you enjoyed this brief look at home design trends. Follow Inspired Remodels on Facebook and Instagram and check back here frequently for design inspiration.

When it’s time to remodel, remember the Orange County general contractors that design and build. Remember Inspired Remodels.

 

 

Orange County Residential Remodeling Contractors Use Design Build Model for Success

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Every incredible residential remodeling project begins with an incredible design. The design drives the project. Allow a disconnect between design and remodeling and you allow plenty of room for trouble. But most residential remodeling contractors aren’t designers, and most designers don’t hold a construction license. Inspired Remodels solves that problem. They take your ideas, inspirations, must-haves, and “really wants” and convert them into a functional and beautiful design. Inspired Remodels transforms rooms and, in the process, turns dreams into reality.  And it all starts when they create your design.

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Why the Design Build Model Works so Well

Traditionally, homeowners hired many professionals for a major remodel or renovation. One job required the services of an architect, a designer, and a general contractor who then hired the actual tradesmen to do the work. The process modeled the commercial building process No wonder remodeling was expensive and complicated.

But commercial construction changed.  Design build improved the traditional process. Simplifying the workflow reduced costs and improved outcomes. Design build delivered an entire project under one contract with a firm using the design build model. Suddenly layers of complexity fell away. The property owner only maintains a single relationship – the one with the design build firm. The firm oversees design and construction phases. This creates total immersion in the project from start to finish. Streamlining the project in this manner means the owner only need to maintain one relationship: the relationship with the design build firm. The popularity of this method has grown substantially in the last 15 years. While this method of project delivery started for commercial projects, it has been adopted by a few residential remodeling contractors.

Orange County Residential Remodeling Contractors Deploy New Model

One Orange County residential remodeling company deploys the design build model for great results. Inspired Remodels designs and builds. Literally. Develop the design with Inspired Remodels and remodel with Inspired Remodels.

Start the process by sharing your ideas to our design team. They create a design incorporating the elements you want and need. The iteration process refines the design and incorporates the finishes, colors, and textures you envision.

By the end of the design stage, you’ll have a plan for space that’s beautiful and functional too. Whether you want a kitchen remodel, a bathroom renovation or a whole house renovation the design team delivers. Review and approve the design and budget and the construction team swings into action.  

The project manager continues as your point of contact. Inspired Remodels remains just a call, text, or email away.

Remove Stress from Remodeling

Major home remodeling projects feel stressful.  Whether it’s living in a construction zone or the interruption to your daily routine, you just want the job to be done and done right the first time.

Inspired Remodels understands your home is your castle and you don’t want your dominion disrupted. Proper scheduling keeps your remodel on track and on time and budget. One less thing to stress over.

When you are ready for a great remodeling experience that avoids the usual stressors, contact Inspired Remodels. You’ll find the design build process much easier and wonder why all residential remodeling contractors in Orange County don’t follow the lead of Inspired Remodels.