You owe it to yourself to take a big-picture, long-view approach when doing a complete remodel of your Orlando home. Completing a full renovation offers an incredible chance for you to redesign the home’s overall layout and flow.
Choosing the right home remodeling team is crucial when considering significant layout changes or additions. Partnering with the right design-build team ensures you ask the right questions to make the best decisions regarding the household’s long-term plans, considering your evolving lifestyle, and realistic returns on your investment.
Consider 3 Factors Before Changing Your Home’s Layout
A complete home remodel is an exciting opportunity to open up an older home’s compartmentalized design or to personalize a more efficient layout and functional flow.
While the ideal of a complete home remodel with dramatic layout changes may be appealing in theory, it requires an experienced and comprehensive approach, or you may wind up spending far more than you should have.
These are the kinds of questions to consider before moving forward with redesigning a home’s layout.
1. What Are Your Long-Term Goals For the Home?
First and foremost, it’s important to consider where you plan to be – and what your lifestyle will look like in another five, ten, or twenty years.
For example, families with young children can feel like they’re pulling their hair out and want to make significant changes to accommodate their current needs. Similarly, a couple whose children are moving out may want to create a more open floor plan or knock out walls between bedrooms to create larger, personalized spaces for the remaining empty nesters.
However, if either homeowner plans to sell or rent their home within five years or less, we’ll want to evaluate how proposed changes might affect the home’s value down the road.
When you work with Flora and the customer-centric design team at Details Construction Group, you gain decades of wisdom and expertise. We can help you identify which of your design ideas makes the most sense for your household’s current and future well-being. Our decades of collective experience mean we can provide sound advice and guidance every step of the way.
2. List Key Reasons You Want to Change the Layout
The good news is that you don’t have to have all the answers right now. In fact, we find that customers who have a general idea of what they’d like – but aren’t anchored in concrete internet-based decisions – often have an easier time keeping an open mind throughout the process-driven way we approach whole home renovations.
During that process, you’ll list all of the reasons you’re thinking of significant layout changes.
- What’s not working now?
- What do you dream about changing and why?
- Are there other ways we could achieve the same goals without a dramatic layout change?
- What layouts do you envy (and how does that household’s lifestyle compare to yours)?
- Are there layouts that worked better for you in previous homes?
This is not to say that a layout change isn’t a good idea; it might be exactly what your home needs. However, when we consider all the options, you’d be amazed at what can shift in household function, flow, and spatial expansiveness.
3. Would Hybrid Design Options Achieve The Same Goal?
During the initial design consultations, we often identify hybrid solutions that achieve the same goals while eliminating unnecessary structural or internal systems changes.
Examples include:
- Changing the layout of the kitchen or bathrooms.
- A single addition that allows us to manipulate adjacent spaces but without the extensive structural or plumbing changes that would be required otherwise.
- Creating amazing, weather-proof outdoor living spaces opens up varied living spaces and enhances entertaining options.
- Using custom cabinetry and storage solutions (making storage more efficient means less square footage taken up by superfluous cabinets or furnishings used for extra storage).
Taking a detailed, inquiry-based approach to what makes sense for your lifestyle – and what doesn’t – is the key to designing and building an Orlando home remodel with all the layout changes you need – and without going overboard or wasting your budget.
Schedule a Design Consultation With Details Construction Group
Details Construction Group excels at design-driven home remodels. This means we take time to get to know our clients and their home spaces. We help them hone in on the changes that are truly necessary to achieve their goals – and with respect for their project’s budget.
When you choose Details Construction Group, you can expect clarity, communication, and care on each step of your journey.
Are you ready to see your home spaces in a new light – taking a design and process-driven approach to your home remodeling plans? Schedule an appointment with Details Construction Group.