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Remodel With Painting – Simple Yet Effective Style Updates

While other remodeling projects may result in a greater change in your home, painting can update style and revitalize the room very effectively without dipping into your budget very much. With all the modern options of paint, these remodeling projects can turn any room in the house into a truly unique experience. Consider some of the following possibilities and then begin to plan your own painting upgrades as well.

Remodel With Painting - Simple Yet Effective Style Updates

Remodel With Painting

In the Kitchen

Old wood cabinets that lack the style of more modern choices could be replaced for a brand-new look, but having them painted is also a great way to remodel on a budget. One popular style for an updated home is white cabinets on the top and a dark color on the bottom such as slate gray, black or espresso brown.

Living Spaces Lift

Painting a brightly colored accent wall is still a stylish way to add interest to your living room, library, media entertainment room or home office. Although you may prefer white or a pale neutral on most of your walls, making one a striking red, brilliant blue or sunny yellow can change the whole ambience of the room.

The right paint color in a living room can change the entire mood. Just imagine a soft be living room being remodeled in a stately navy blue with white trim or a stark white with red and black accent walls.

Bedrooms Burst with Style

Relaxation and luxury is the goal of most remodels in the bedroom. With paint, can easily create this style with very soft tones such as sage green or silver gray. Bedrooms also look wonderful with darker colors, which can make them more restful for sleeping. Deep blues and greens, passionate reds and darker neutrals like chocolate brown and charcoal are all options.

One of the best things about remodeling a bedroom with paint is that, because it is a more private room in your house, there is a greater sense of freedom to do unusual things or use more unique colors. After all, your friends and family may be shocked by a bright red living room or a purple kitchen, but in the bedroom you are free to enjoy more unique personal tastes.

Exterior Paint Options

Painting your entire house a new color during a remodeling process can definitely make it stand out on your block. Of course, you do not want to stand out too much by picking an exceptionally bright or showy tone. Professional remodelers can help you choose the color that is more suitable to your neighborhood and still support your personal sense of style. Popular exterior whom colors include various neutrals, especially grays, soft terra-cotta reds, muted and darker blues and soft greens.

Other possibilities for a paint only remodel job include changing the trim color throughout the home inside or out, painting fences to delineate property lines more clearly or revitalizing an old-fashioned decorating scheme for a more modern home.

What to Expect With a Whole Kitchen Remodel

What to Expect With a Whole Kitchen Remodel

What to Expect With a Whole Kitchen Remodel

Having any part of your home remodeled can be a big headache and disrupt your life considerably no matter how careful and respectful the contractors and laborers are. Having your kitchen remodeled is at the top of the list for disruption, however. After all, you will not have access to your appliances, dishes or food storage for the duration.

If you want to get through a whole kitchen remodel with your sanity intact, be prepared for these intrusions on your life:

1 – Dust, dirt and garbage. Even with the careful preparation and consideration of a professional remodeling team, there will be dust, dirt and garbage in the kitchen, speaking into other rooms of your house and in your driveway or on the street. None of this should be left around lying in unsightly fashion, but extensive remodels to require garbage skips conveniently located and things will simply look messy for a while.

2 – Constant loud noise. All sorts of electric tools such as saws and sanders will be running for many hours during the day. After all, you want your entire kitchen remodel to be done quickly, so it makes sense that the workers have to work long hours. Hand tools like hammers and even the noise of workers talking and calling to each other can become abrasive after a while.

If you cannot spend some time in a hotel room or friend’s house, invest in some comfortable earplugs or noise-canceling headphones. This can be especially helpful for any children that live in the home.

3 – Really unpleasant surprises. Most homeowners do not know the precise history of their home or what is going on inside the walls floorboards. When a whole kitchen remodel takes place, there is a high chance of finding something unpleasant and unexpected. This could be water damage or mold near pipes and plumbing, evidence of past fires that have been covered up, insects or rodent evidence or even substandard subfloors supports for cabinetry.

4 – Over budget, over deadline. Professional contractors and construction crews understand the importance of sticking to the homeowner’s budget and working as quickly and diligently as they can get the job done on time. However, a kitchen remodel requires many different things to make it complete: cabinets built and installed, plumbing upgraded, painters, stonecutters to make the countertops, glaziers for new windows and flooring experts for the tile.

All of these smaller jobs need to fit neatly together so that every team has enough time and space to work. For example, it is impossible to installing cabinets while someone is retitling the floor. If one thing goes wrong such as a breakage, a back order or even an illness, the deadline can get pushed back. If any of the unexpected surprises mentioned in #3 above occurs, the budget can be affected negatively as well.

As long as you choose the right company to handle your whole kitchen remodel and expect the unexpected during the whole process, it should go by with minimal disruption and headaches. No matter what, standing in the middle of your new kitchen when everything is done will be worth it.