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Custom Kitchen Remodeling For Beauty and Function

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In Orange County homes, custom kitchen remodeling creates beautiful and functional spaces. From spaces for quick meals to gourmet kitchens, Inspired Remodels improves kitchen layouts to reflect how and why you cook. Then they make the space attractive.

Elegant Efficiency

Whether you craft culinary creations for a crowd or specialize in 15-minute meals on a nightly basis, efficiency in the kitchen is essential.

This Orange County custom kitchen remodel provides a large work area next to the sink and the cooktop is a mere pivot away. This design eliminates needless steps and utilizes the kitchen triangle design concept.

Key stations, placed in the shape of a triangle make a kitchen efficient. Inspired Remodels takes the triangle and turns it into elegance.

Marble-look quartz offers the prestige of stone counters with the bliss of easy-care quartz. Walnut cabinets tailor made for the space provide all the storage this cook needs.

Abundant natural light enhanced with recessed lighting and accessorized with pendant lamps allows the cook to customize the lighting to the use. Enjoy all three sources when cooking and rely on natural ambient light or pendant lights when eating or entertaining.

Open for Living

Small spaces need shouldn’t hamper your culinary ambitions. This custom kitchen remodeling project makes the most of every available inch by incorporating an open concept for cooking and living.

Space for casual eating under a window adds functionality while making the most of the square footage. On the opposite side, you’ll find room for more formal dining.

In the middle? Why a custom kitchen packed with features in every inch. In lieu of upper cabinets, find shelves for storage. Shelves create the appearance of more space than cabinets while still proving storage.

The dishwasher, installed next to the sink, makes clean-up a breeze. White subway tile and shaker-style cabinets along with abundant light make the space appear larger than it is.

Custom Kitchen Remodeling Brings Outdoors Inside

Make sure your kitchen remodel shows off our great Orange County outdoors. The remodel above adds La Cantina doors and windows to make the kitchen feel like it is right by the pool. That’s because it is!

A luxury bar off the kitchen uses a stunning poolside location for the backdrop.

Inspired Remodels even creates outdoor kitchen, eating, and entertaining spaces. With a space like this, who would ever go inside?

Create an Inspired Kitchen Remodel

When you are ready to convert dreams into reality, let Inspired Remodels do the heavy lifting.

Kitchen remodeling, bathroom renovation, indoors or outdoors, Inspired Remodels provides one stop for design and build services. Call 949 716-1938 and schedule a consultation.

5 Enduring Custom Kitchen Remodeling Trends for 2022

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Custom kitchen remodeling trends come crashing in like waves pounding the Pacific shoreline. Many ebb quickly and return to the sea of flash in the pan trends but others endure. Get the most of your remodeling budget and skip those ebbing trends. Incorporate these five enduring kitchen remodel trends for a dream kitchen in 2022 that will still be stylish in 2032.

Full Backsplashes

Remember when backsplashes were just a few rows high? Literally just enough to stop the splashing water or food? Not only are those days gone, but they also aren’t coming back any time soon.

Modern kitchens use the backsplash as a full design element. That’s why in 2022 and beyond, you’ll find no matter the material you pick, in custom kitchens the backsplash is full.

Backsplashes cover from countertop to the ceiling in this recent Mission Viejo custom kitchen remodeling project completed by Inspired Remodels.

The chevron tile design will also endure. Chevron patterns date back to ancient Greek pottery and textiles but the word didn’t appear in the English language until the 14th century. If a pattern has endured seven centuries, there’s a good chance it will endure in your kitchen another 30 years.

Minimalist Design

Less continues to be more in the kitchen. Fussy decor is as out-of-date as avocado green cabinets or appliances. Today’s focus is on functionality and easy-to-clean surfaces. Neutral tones set the stage

Modern kitchens work hard, and they get dirty. Minimalist design creates kitchens that work hard and look stunning in the process.

Recessed lighting continues to play a starring role in lighting. Lighting installed under the upper cabinets adds task lighting with invisible fixtures. It’s the quintessential touch of minimal design and it is here to stay.

Even kitchen islands are minimalist. They will continue to serve dual purposes by providing prep and work areas as well as functioning as a dining space.

Appliances are carefully tucked away until needed. No more toaster on the counter, but instead ample cabinet space to store toasters and air fryers. Only the coffee pot or Keurig stays in sight.

Shaker Cabinets

Since the shaking Quakers arrived in the American colonies in 1774, they’ve set the design standard for simple, practical, and beautiful furniture and cabinets.

The religious sect may have only lasted about 150 years, but the simple recessed panel door that they designed endures in kitchens to this day.

Shaker cabinets aren’t going anywhere. And with so many semi-custom cabinet makers like Decora and Waypoint offering Shaker panel doors, there’s a reason Shaker panel cabinets show up in Orange County kitchen remodels on a regular basis.

Whether you prefer the modern, minimalist design or like living elements like flowers and fruit on display, Shaker cabinets will always be the perfect match.

Color Blocking

Just because kitchens are less fussy, doesn’t mean they are less interesting. Creating blocks of colors with islands and cabinetry is no longer just a passing fad. It’s an enduring trend that creates a timeless kitchen. In Orange County, custom kitchen remodeling projects have featured contrasting colors in the color blocking. In other areas of the country, color blocks are tone-on-tone.

No matter what approach you take, color blocking with tile or cabinet colors adds interest and is an enduring trend in kitchen remodeling. Use tile to create a color block on a wall or use the kitchen island to create a color block in the middle of the room.

Drawers Over Doors

A successful kitchen remodeling project makes the most of every inch of the room a kitchen has to give. Then it goes out and looks for more.

A trend that is certainly going to stay in 2022 is a preference for drawers over doors for cabinet storage. It just makes better use of the available space.

Deeper drawers for storing pots and pans make access easy and retrieving and storing cookware a breeze. Drawers hold kitchen and table linens, utensils, cutlery, and flatware.

This drawer provides storage space for pantry supplies and spices. And of course, because it is a drawer with a Shaker front, it gets two points for enduring.

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Kitchen Remodeler Tips for a Contemporary Kitchen

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With so many restaurants closed due to COVID-19, Californians have a newfound respect for their kitchen. The right kitchen environment makes eating in almost as fun as eating out. Except you still must do the dishes. If you’re looking to update your kitchen, here are tips from an Orange County kitchen remodeler on creating a contemporary space.

Let’s Look at Lighting

Contemporary design focuses on space. And to show space you’ve got to have light. From a style point of view, lighting is important in any room.

It’s seriously important in the kitchen. After all that’s where you keep those sharp knives and boiling water.

To get that contemporary feel, you’ve got to have more than task lighting. Your lighting must accentuate the clean lines inherent in contemporary designs.

In the kitchen above, the recessed lights and overhead lights are simple geometric shapes. The down light pendants incorporate sleek, industrial lines. In addition to the natural light from the window and the under cabinet task lighting, you’ve got all the light you need day or night.

In this kitchen, the frosted glass cabinet doors on the upper cabinets reflect light from the recessed ceiling light.

Polished subway tile reflects under cabinet lighting.

When you reflect light, you double the amount of light you have.

Light makes areas appear larger than they are.

When you have a small space, you make it look larger with the simplicity of the contemporary design.

Shaker Simplicity

Shaker style may date back to the 18th century, but the Shaker’s love for simple design melds perfectly with the 2020 contemporary aesthetic.

Simple cabinet fronts and an updated industrial take on the traditional farmhouse sink borrow from the designs of yesteryear to create a completely contemporary kitchen.

Instead of focusing on color, a contemporary kitchen is awash in neutral tones.

You could even use it’s neutrality as a backdrop for a splash of bold color with a rug or decorative canisters. Just don’t get carried away.

Keeping it contemporary means keeping it simple.

Lines are crucial in good contemporary design. The goose neck faucet provides curving lines that contrast with the stark vertical and horizontals of the cabinet hardware.

Shaker cabinetry contributes clean, straight lines that are always at home in any contemporary design.

For this design, the kitchen remodeler replicated the Shaker lines on the cabinet fronts with the lines of the subway tile backsplash. You can’t go wrong with subway tile in a contemporary kitchen.

Same for the use of brushed nickle. Save the rubbed bronze for other styles. Brushed nickle is a cornerstone of a contemporary kitchen.

Contemporary Kitchen Remodeler

Inspired Remodels is the kitchen remodeler for your contemporary kitchen, French country, Mediterranean, or any other style you love.

You’re going to be spending more time in the kitchen. Make sure its a space and design you love. Inspired Remodels makes it happen.

Call (949) 716-1938 or Contact Us online to schedule your consultation.