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Seven reasons to remodel your kitchen with Kitchens of Los Altos
As the recession continues and housing prices are at all-time lows, you may wonder if remodeling your kitchen is really the smart move. But despite the cost, time, and uncertainty, the time has never been better to add new life, and new value, to your home with quality kitchen remodeling.
1) Make your home more inviting
The first thing that people do in tough economic times is to cut out unnecessary expenses, and eating out is usually right at the top of the list. Cooking at home can be less expensive, healthier, and can help strengthen the bonds of your family and friends. But working up the motivation to cook can be difficult if your kitchen is dark, cramped, and dysfunctional. Kitchens of Los Altos can help move the center of your home from the television back to the kitchen using the classical and modern interior design concepts. We can draw up a new kitchen design that will make your kitchen into a brighter, more open, and functional space that will become the centerpiece of your home. Our interior design specialists can help you pick everything from new granite countertops to custom kitchen cabinets. Everything you need can be put right where you want it to make storage, cooking, and cleanup a breeze. After remodeling your kitchen into a space that is both beautiful and functional, you will find spending time in the kitchen to be less of a chore, and more of a pleasure.
2) Make your space truly yours
Nothing makes you feel more at home than a room that you have made truly unique and individual. Living in a space that you designed helps you feel more confident and creative, and reaffirms your sense of self. Just imagine having a whole room that makes a statement about who you are as an individual. It certainly sounds better than a room that makes a statement about your home's previous owners.
The kitchen remodeling and interior design industry is one of the most productive and diverse parts of the interior design world. There are almost infinite unique combinations of materials, designs, and layouts that high quality remodeling can achieve in your kitchen. While all that potential can seem a bit overwhelming, our qualified remodeling experts can help you narrow down the choices until you find the perfect combination. From custom kitchen cabinets to new granite countertops, our interior design professionals can help you implement a truly unique new kitchen design.
The interior design professionals at Kitchens of Los Altos can help you craft the kitchen of your dreams, from a French Provençal country kitchen to a sleek, modern minimalist masterpiece. We can provide you with hand-drawn renderings of the final design so that you can tweak and adjust every detail to your specifications. With the wide range of materials, appliances, and design techniques, we can design kitchens that are truly extensions of their owners.
3) Make your home more efficient
If you are serious about saving money, investing in energy-saving efficient appliances is one of the best and easiest kitchen remodels that can seriously reduce your monthly expenses helping you save in the overall interior design process. According to the US Department of Energy, more than 70% of the energy used in your home is for appliances like refrigerators, ranges, microwaves, and dishwashers. While these appliances are essential to the convenience of modern life, they also make a huge impact on your monthly spending. Investing in new energy-efficient appliances can reduce your spending in the long run by hundreds of dollars every year. And because designer appliances are becoming more affordable and more personalized all the time, our interior design professionals can help you chose the perfect appliances that not only make your kitchen look beautiful, but also help you reduce your monthly energy bills.
Many new energy-efficient appliances qualify for rebates and other incentives from your utility company, as well as federal, state, and local governments. Our remodeling experts can help you apply for these incentives to help defray the cost of replacing your appliances, and can even find contractors who will safely and responsibly dispose of your old, worn-down appliances.
In addition to energy-efficient appliances, there are a host of new materials that can make your home more efficient, as well as cleaner and greener. From custom flooring and granite countertops that stay cool in the summer and absorb heat in the winter to custom kitchen cabinets made from recycled or renewable resources. Our kitchen design experts can help you reduce your monthly energy bills as well as your environmental impact.
4) Renew Your Home
We all know someone who never throws anything away. Maybe a husband who wears a shirt until it's full of holes, or a parent who drives the same car they took you to school in because "it still works fine." These people will never throw something away as long as it is in one piece, no matter how worn out and decayed it looks. Chances are also pretty good that they feel the same way about their kitchens. They probably have the same avocado-green refrigerator and peeling countertops that they had thirty years ago, and that is fine for them. Kitchens of Los Altos has long been known as one of the best interior designers in Atherton and the Bay Area.
But the rest of us thrive on change and renewal. People need new challenges and new environments to keep their minds sharp and their souls young. Even if your kitchen is functional, it could probably stand a little remodeling. Kitchens take a lot of wear and tear over the years and decades that we live in them. High quality remodeling can bring new life to your kitchen by replacing dilapidated shelves with new custom kitchen cabinets, or upgrading the nicked-up surface with new granite countertops.
The longer we live with something, the less we value it and the more we take it for granted. Remodeling helps to put old, worn-out rooms into new lights and new purposes. Occasional kitchen remodels can help you feel that sense of renewal every time you come home to your new kitchen.
5) Become a Gourmet
It has never been easier or less expensive to become a gourmet-or "foodie" as they are currently known. Basic staples are everywhere, and even exotic ingredients like kelp and fresh Asian noodles are available at ethnic grocers or even supermarkets. Step-by-step recipes and instructions are available all over the internet, and gourmet food tastes delicious.
But you can't do any job without the right tools. You need high quality cookware and appliances in order to create the most delicate, flavorful dishes you find online. Having room to store and install them means doing some kitchen remodeling. The expert kitchen remodeling professionals at Kitchens of Los Altos can produce a kitchen design for your home to accommodate the latest tools and highest quality professional grade appliances.
Kitchen remodeling can give you integrated cutting surfaces like granite countertops, and versatile storage options in custom kitchen cabinets. Experts in high quality remodeling can also design kitchen islands with integrated sinks and appliances. Once your kitchen remodels are complete, you can invest in high quality cookware and cutlery in order to prepare and enjoy delectable, healthy gourmet meals while teaching yourself a new skill at the same time.
6) Increase the Value of Your Home
It is common knowledge that home improvements can make your home more valuable when it comes time to sell. Kitchen remodeling is one of the best investments you can make when it comes to home improvement. Quicken Loans estimates that quality remodeling of your kitchen can yield a return on your remodeling investment of 80 to 93 percent. That means that a kitchen remodeling or new interior design project of $10,000 could add an additional $18,000 or more to your asking price when you decide to sell your Bay Area or Atherton home.
The professional kitchen remodeling experts at Kitchens of Los Altos can help you make these sorts of improvements to your kitchen. Your remodeling can be as simple as new flooring or replacing old appliances, as labor-intensive as installing new granite countertops or custom kitchen cabinets, to a complete ground-up kitchen remodeling.
You might think, with housing prices as low as they are, that kitchen remodels might not grant the same return on investment that they did just a few years ago. But the advantage of a high quality kitchen remodeling is that its value lasts for years after it is completed. A remodeled kitchen done by a qualified interior design expert at Kitchens of Los Altos will retain its value long enough to ride out the lull in housing prices. And while you wait for the housing market to recover, you can enjoy the beautiful new kitchen of your dreams for as long as you live in your home.
Kitchens are among the first and most important rooms that prospective buyers inspect when they are looking to buy a home. A newly remodeled kitchen may not land the first buyer that walks through the door, but an old, out of date kitchen will certainly drive away prospective buyers who are looking for a home with a new, efficient, and technologically advanced food preparation space.
7) There has never been a better time than now
Believe it or not, the economic downturn is actually good news for kitchen remodeling. Because of depressed housing prices, builders have slowed, or in some cases, stopped building homes entirely until the economy picks up again. The contractors and materials that are used to build new homes are the same as the ones used by interior design companies like Kitchens of Los Altos to do kitchen remodels. Since their regular work has slowed down, the contractors are always glad to work in their field, and will even do so for substantially discounted rates in order to keep working. Similarly, suppliers of building and remodeling materials like fixtures and granite countertops are selling at prices much lower than they were two or three years ago.
You can take advantage of these low prices by hiring the experienced kitchen remodeling professionals and interior design specialists at Kitchens of Los Altos to coordinate the remodeling of your kitchen while prices are still low. Not only will you be increasing the value of your home, you will be doing so even more by getting the same quality remodeling materials and contractors at a discount. As an added bonus, you will be helping small business owners in one of the hardest-hit economic sectors to ride out the recession. If you own a home in Atherton, now is the time to consider kitchen remodeling from the experts at Kitchens of Los Altos.
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