A home remodel differs from the average kitchen or bathroom remodel. While both should start with a “function over form” overview, ensuring your final details work to enhance your living spaces’ function, home remodels offer the chance to think about your home in a whole new way.
Where To Start With a Whole Home Remodel
Planning a significant home remodel can feel a bit overwhelming at first. Partnering with an experienced high-end design and build team is the best way to create a full-spectrum vision for the project and keep on track.
Whole home remodels start with a big-picture view, which provides broader design themes to optimize form and function. Once we have a complete view of the overall scope of the design, we can take a more detailed, room-by-room approach.
As designers and contractors, we are pros at conceptualizing large home remodeling projects and guiding you to the best designs, materials, and other essentials to elevate your space.
1. What Are the Overall Goals For the Remodel?
What inspired you to start this home remodeling project? There’s a reason you’re embarking on a full home remodel, so we start there. Most of the time, clients have a few simultaneous themes.
For example:
- The house is in dire need of an updated design and modern refresh for safety, energy efficiency, and general aesthetics.
- It’s time to add more space to the bathrooms and upgrade your kitchen for your growing family.
- You’re adding space to accommodate in-laws or aging loved ones.
- As empty-nesters, you’re ready to make a more functional space so you can age in place safely, comfortably, and independently.
- You plan to sell the home in a few years.
The reasons you’re embarking on a remodel help us carve out the best route to successful project completion.
2. What Do You Appreciate About the House Now?
We’ll want to discuss what you appreciate or enjoy about your house now so that we can preserve those features and consider how we can enhance what you love as we begin making changes elsewhere.
For example, if you love entertaining and your kitchen flow accommodates that, we might also think about how we can expand a dining or family room to bring entertainment-friendly energy into other living spaces. Or, you may decide that it makes sense to remodel your exterior living spaces while you’re at it, building that outdoor kitchen you’ve always dreamed about.
3. What Do You Not Like About Your Living Spaces Right Now?
Just as we learn more about our clients as they tell us what they appreciate about their homes, we also learn from what they don’t like.
As we begin planning your remodel, we also want to hear about your dislikes and annoyances. No complaint is too small. Consider this your “blank slate” opportunity to get rid of what doesn’t work so we can create what does.
We’ll discuss things like:
- The benefits (if any) of creating a new kitchen layout for improved flow and enjoyment.
- Evaluating whether redesigning bathroom layouts would be helpful.
- Whether you’re in need of customized cabinets and storage spaces.
- If adding extra square footage makes more sense for your long-term goals.
- Would updating your laundry room to a full-service mud room support your kid, pet, or outdoor-friendly lifestyle?
- And more.
Once we’ve gathered this comprehensive overview of your needs and wants, we can start planning the more fun part of home remodeling projects: selecting features and finishes.
4. Filling In the Details
Now, you get to use the overview “scaffold” we’ve created for your project and fill in the gaps with your selections. Since we know what types of spaces we’ll be working with and how you want them to function, we can have fun remodeling the interior design of your living spaces.
This is when we’ll get more into the details of:
- Electrical and lighting.
- Flooring.
- Paint colors.
- Countertops and surfaces.
- Luxury bathroom and other plumbing features.
- And so on.
Details Construction Group Takes Clients’ Home Remodeling Dreams And Makes Them a Reality
Flora and the rest of the team at Details Construction Group excel at reconceptualizing living spaces for their clients’ whole-home remodels. Let us bring our decades of design and build experience to your project.
We’re passionate about taking a big-picture approach so clients enjoy stunning, timeless remodels that support their lifestyles today, tomorrow, and long into the future – and we always attend to the details. Contact us to schedule your design consultation and learn more about why we’re a first-choice Orlando area home renovation contractor.
