Paint Color Choices Make Your Rooms Distinctive
What’s the hottest thing in paint colors? A professional painter has it ready for your walls.
Color trends come fast and often these days. Making the right paint color choices for your home is a major step in creating an exciting first impression on friends and family. Bringing a professional painter into your Madison WI area home gives you access to all the tools, accessories and paint options you might otherwise miss. There’s a lot more to refreshing or replacing you home’s paint than chips on a promotional chart.
A trend is a direction of interest, unlike a fad that comes and goes in an instant. Paint color trends change the way homeowners and designers think. Ours is a visual society and we communicate in colors and patterns. Consider that we see more images in a day than our ancestors may have seen in a lifetime. Color is splashed around us everywhere. Continue reading
Product Specifications & Selections Impact Commercial Design
You’ve probably heard of blueprints when it comes to commercial design. However, blueprints don’t represent the full picture. No commercial construction or design project can be completed without the help of specifications. Blueprints show a visual representation of how the finished project should look, but specifications provide the process for making it all happen.
These specifications and the selections made within them can dramatically impact commercial design in a variety of ways. Continue reading
Commercial Remodeling – No Time Like The Present
There’s no better time to move on a space renovation than when businesses and customers are excited about “getting back to normal.”
A commercial remodeling project can be anything from a minor face lift to a major addition. The spring of 2020, as business bounces back from unprecedented setbacks is an ideal time to put a new face on your Madison WI business. Welcome customers and staff back with a new, fresh and efficient space.
For small business and satellite offices the most common commercial project is the “buildout.” It’s a project where space within a building conforms directly to a tenant’s specifications. The buildout is ideal for older buildings where changes make sense within an existing footprint. Build-to-suit projects include professional business offices, medical facilities, coffee shops, cafes and restaurants. Continue reading
Covid-19 Update – Home Construction Deemed Essential Business
Wisconsin is one of the states where home construction has been tabbed an essential, continuing business.
As part of the latest directives from Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers for controlling the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the construction trades have been designated essential businesses. Remodeling-related businesses come under the heading of Critical Trades. That means your remodeling project can continue as planned in the Madison WI area.
All the specialists related to the remodeling industry – contractors, plumbers, painters, electricians and carpenters – have been setting a standard for jobsite safety for decades. They take protecting employees and the public very seriously. If you’re in the middle of creating a new kitchen or master bath, you don’t have to worry about extra exposure to the Coronavirus from construction.
Why doesn’t construction work increase the risk? Continue reading
The Craftsman-style Home – Reflecting Madison’s Heritage
Updating this Craftsman-style residence helps it to reflect the welcoming, cozy existence it was designed to represent.
A small cozy home appeals to would-be homeowners in 2020. Combining decades of tradition with modern amenities a Craftsman-style home has earned its place in Madison WI history. Throughout the area you can find hundreds of these unique designs in older neighborhoods. In addition, the styling has renewed interest among custom builders.
What is a Craftsman house design? With their roots in the 1920s signature features include an inviting front porch supported by heavy pillars, a low-slung roof with a dormer or two and the use of natural materials and colors inside and out. There’s a lot of wood trim – or in a modern renovation, wood-look materials. Typical Craftsman colors include browns, greens and other earth tones. Continue reading
Plan Every Kitchen Remodel Detail
This dated kitchen is a candidate for a total makeover – what will it take?
A kitchen remodel is one of the most rewarding home improvement projects you can undertake in your Madison WI home. It is also one of the most complexed. And, it can be one of the most frustrating.
Family activities center in the kitchen. The day’s events are planned and the day recapped. Creating an efficient, welcoming kitchen is a lofty goal, but one well worth the effort. Tearing out the heart of family organization requires planning and foresight. It disrupts all aspects of daily life. Is your family ready to do without the kitchen for weeks, maybe months? Now’s the time to think about it. Continue reading
Kitchen Cabinet Trends – Put Your Style On Display
Custom installations of all kinds are available to meet your needs. Design a kitchen that fits your style.
Many aspects of your kitchen are subject to the whims of fads and fashions. Fortunately, kitchen cabinet trends are more stable than most. No matter what you want for your Madison WI home, there’s a cabinet style to fit your personal taste. Trends in countertops, tile selections and overall floor plans come and go – look the rise and decline of the “farmhouse kitchen” in recent years. Fortunately, kitchen cabinet selections are a steadying influence.
Consider these common threads in kitchen design: Continue reading
The Bump-out – Small Additions Add Big Value
Adding great space to the inside doesn’t mean detracting from the outside of your home.
When you need a few extra square feet of living area without the rigors of a major remodeling plan, a bump-out addition is just the thing. Many Madison WI area homeowners want a more space but their lot size and budget won’t permit it. Adding a small addition that “bumps out” from the existing structure adds usable floor space anywhere in the house.
Consider adding space to your kitchen without knocking down interior walls. Or would you like to expand your master bath for a spa-like walk-in shower? Maybe your children are growing and need more closet space in bedrooms? Would extra space for an office or laundry room be worthwhile? Continue reading
Prepare To Remodel – Advanced Planning Guides The Process
Be prepared – your home life will be disrupted by noise, dust and people coming and going for weeks, maybe months. The results are worth it… if you can hang on.
So, you think it’s time to renovate your home. Do you know what it takes to remodel a single room much less an entire floor? When you prepare to remodel your Madison WI area home, be ready for a significant disruption in your daily routine. The first thing to understand is: Reality TV is NOT REAL. The wonderful remodeling programs compress weeks and months of intense work into 60-minute episodes. Don’t create a remodeling plan expecting a quick fix.
Homeowners planning for their new dream kitchen or bathroom have a short, but detailed list of expectations: Continue reading
An Open Floorplan Design Is Not For Everyone
This older home has incorporated an open floorplan but is it making the best use of valuable space?
In all the popular places – TV, video and magazines – the concept of an open floorplan is a hot topic. Before you plan to knock down a wall in your Madison WI home, consider how – and if – it will really work in your daily routine.
Home buyers, especially first-time buyers, put the “open concept” high on their must have list. At the same time, owners of older homes consider opening up the floorplan a way to modernize. With the wide variety of architectural styles available throughout the Madison area there are plenty of options. Continue reading
