Odds are your Chicago kitchen remodel includes replacing the sink – and that means there are choices to be made. One of the first tier sink factors will be whether you prefer a single or double bowl?
Here are some of the pros and cons of both types, listed via the different ways homeowners use their sinks on a daily basis. Reviewing these might help you discern which sink version makes the most sense for your kitchen and its most common occupants. Then you can move on to the aesthetic features.
If you plan wisely, your Chicago bathroom remodel should be a once-in-your-lifetime experience. The right features will yield a bathroom that is visually attractive but also offers all those luxury perks you’re looking forward to.
High-tech kitchens are all the rage these days, but bathrooms are doing their best to keep up with the technological trends too. Digital shower and bath features and heated flooring are two examples, but toilets are where some of the real innovation is emerging.
Move over toilets that can only flush, here comes something more exciting.
Until recently, the average toilet simply flushed. Specialty features included things like water saving options and comfort height options.
Now, Kohler and Toto offering a more deluxe tier of toilet – and yes, they even clean themselves.
Bathroom renovations take longer than you think, and that’s because the start of a remodel actually stretches back to the moment you begin planning it.
This is why Houzz and other home design experts state the average start-to-finish range for a remodeling project is four to six months. While a kitchen remodel is typically the most labor intensive, Chicago bathroom remodels can take equally as long – especially if you live in an older home, if you have a large bathroom space, if you’re designing a spa-like bathroom retreat, and/or if you don’t plan carefully ahead of time.
A full kitchen or large-scale bathroom remodel can take up to six months. That was one of the averages listed by Houzz in their most recent remodeling trends report, and it’s an alarming one for anyone ready to whip their house into updated shape. If you read further, however, you’ll see that the six month average isn’t the length of time from demolition to completion.
Rather, it is the span of time from the day you sit down with a design build team to start the planning process, through the date when the kitchen is totally complete. And, even more interestingly, in almost all cases it’s the planning phase of the remodel that takes the longest.
What’s more fun than having your house torn up, strangers parading in an out throughout the day, layers of sawdust so fine it makes powdered sugar look coarse and a whole heck of a lot of noise?
Just about anything, that’s what.
Once you’ve nailed down your Chicago kitchen remodeling budget, you might find there’s more wiggle room than you think. Clients who are prepared, organized, and settled on what they want and who select options and upgrades that can be ordered and shipped in a standard fashion (i.e. no über-rare tiles from an obscure manufacturer in Italy), wind up pleasantly surprised at all the little extras they can add to the original plan.
KBU - What Aspects of a Chicago Kitchen Remodel Take the Longest? Kitchen remodels can take a while. In fact, recent data from Houzz says that a full kitchen remodel averages about five months or so when you factor in the planning phases. This is important information because it helps you to plan better, have more realistic expectations and will help you to remodel with grace and flexibility. To this end, we recommend reading, A Home Remodeling Project Can Make You Crazy But it Doesn’t Have To.
We tend to cringe when we see the terms modern and contemporary used interchangeably. Unfortunately, this occurs quite often.
Chicago bathroom remodels projects are similar to kitchen remodels when it comes to the time it takes for planning and build out. On average, the entire plan-design-build-finish cycle can require as much as six-months.
