Are you considering remodeling your home to give it a newer and more modern look? Here are some remodeling ideas that might interest you:

Incorporate Built-in Shelving

A great way to open your living or family room up without sacrificing storage space is to incorporate built-in shelving. This will allow you to avoid having to put bulky bookshelves and other types of shelving against your walls, which can make a room look crowded. Built-in shelving will give you an opportunity to display whatever books, photos, and knick-knacks you would like without making the space look crowded or cluttered. You can have built-in shelving created around windows, in corners, and over fireplaces. You can even have a faux wall built to create a partition between two rooms and incorporate built-in shelving into that wall.

Have an Appliance Garage Built

Modern kitchens typically do not feature counters cluttered with appliances and other types of kitchen tools. Instead, these things are usually hidden away in a butler's pantry or elsewhere. The problem is that the appliances are not always easy or convenient to use when they are stored away. Having an appliance garage built in your kitchen is a great way to keep your appliances off the counters without hampering convenience and safety. Whenever you need an appliance, just open the garage door, and grab it to use on the counter or keep it where it is.

Introduce Recessed Lighting

Recessed lighting not only creates a modern look and feel in the home, but it helps open things up and makes rooms look a little larger because they take up no visual space at all. Each recessed light can be pointed in various directions, which allows you to create a custom lighting design that complements the design of your room. Use recessed lighting to highlight your child's award on the wall or to bring attention to a set of valuable sculptures on a shelf. Direct lighting to the corners of a room to create a romantic ambiance. The options are almost limitless.

Create an Open Floorplan

If a wall separates two rooms in your home, like the kitchen and living room or kitchen and dining room, consider creating an open floorplan by getting rid of the wall. Getting rid of a wall between two rooms will make each room feel more spacious and will help accommodate conversations between family members or visitors even when everyone is not sitting in the same room. As long as the wall is not required to support the structure of the home, it should be easy to take it out and make it look like it was never there in the first place. 

To get started on your home remodeling project, contact a local contractor. 

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