An Approach to Planning Your Dream Remodel
As real estate markets across the country deal with limited supply and surging prices, many people who just a couple of years ago might have decided to sell a smaller home to move to a bigger one are now choosing to remodel to add more space. Many factors such as COVID, the rush to create home offices, the trend to include aging parents as part of the extended family, and college grads moving home are just a few of the factors that are making homeowners consider remodeling projects.
At Glickman|Design Remodel Build we have encountered many reasons why our clients have chosen to remodel their homes, but after 40 years of serving the DMV, we still offer the same advise: We urge you to carefully consider all of the reasons why you want to remodel and set realistic budget guidelines before starting the process.
Here are a few tips that will help your decision making process as you consider your “Dream Remodel”
Be Realistic about Your Budget
Consider the total amount you can comfortably afford when planning your remodel. When you realistically set a total for your remodeling spend, those budget guidelines enable you and our designers to create an accurate roadmap from the very start. This decision ensures that the budget never “gets away” from you. One other note about being realistic with your budget. Take time to consider your tolerance for the complexity of your remodeling vision. In other words, the bigger the budget the bigger and more complex the job.
Find the Right Contractor for Your Job
With so much money and emotional investment on the line, one of the most important decisions you will make when adding on to your home is the contractor you choose. Of course, we want you to choose Glickman, but we realize that the smartest approach is to always speak to more than one contracting company when considering who will be the designers and builders of your project.
We encourage you to ask some basic questions when considering your contractor.
First depending on the size of the remodel, the contractors could be in your home for eight t twelve weeks. That’s a long time. So ask questions like:
-How many workers will be on the project and possibly in my home during the construction period?
-What kind of payment schedule do they require and how do they handle change orders?
-Can they provide a wide range of references?
-Are they NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry) approved?
If you don’t like the answers your given, that may be a tell-tale sign that the contractor is not the right for you.”
Finally and maybe most importantly, you should feel very comfortable on a personal level with the contractor you choose. You are making a very large investment and basically inviting a group of people into your home for an extended period of time. Feeling good and confident about your decision will go a long way to enjoying the remodeling process.
Carefully Consider Why You Want More Space
Are you tired of steeping over your kids’ toys? Do need privacy to conduct your daily business? Is there a desire for your parents or in-laws to move into your home to create closeness with their grandchildren and to give them an additional sense of security in their later years. Or are you planning on aging-in-place and want to live in your home for many more years. The answers are as numerous as the styles of additions you can add to your home.
Here are just a few of the hundreds of beautiful additions and remodeling projects we’re created for our clients around the DMV.
Here are a few facts about additions that you should consider:
-Adding bathrooms and expanding kitchens, or adding second story master suites create the highest ROI in any home
-The ROI of master bedroom suite is better than that of playrooms.
-There will come a time when you do sell you’re your home so consider how appealing your addition will be to future buyers.
When you’re ready to build, were ready to get started. Please contact us or give a us a call.
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