Interior Design

Framing it as refacing versus replacement is actually the wrong question. Determining what your cabinets need has less to do with pitting ideas against one another and more to do with the cabinets’ conditions themselves. If the cabinet boxes are sound and work within the established layout, kitchen cabinet refacing refreshes the look without rocking The post How to Tell Whether Your Kitchen Needs Cabinet Refacing vs. Replacement first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

The house on Kings Highway was built in 1948. Back then, a bathroom down the hall and three steps to the front door were just how homes got built. Nobody thought about a wheelchair getting through that door. Your father did not think about it either, until the stroke last spring. Home modifications for wheelchair The post Haddon Township’s Older Homes Weren’t Built for Accessibility: What Families Do Instead of a Full Renovation first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

A chimney liner is the inner channel running through the flue that contains combustion heat, directs gases out of the home, and protects the surrounding masonry and framing from the temperatures a fireplace generates. Without one, or with one that’s not in working condition, your house can, quite literally, go up in flames. Heat can The post What A Chimney Liner Does and When It Needs Replacing first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

Most in-law suite plans start with a floor plan and end with regrets after the parent has moved in. In Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, small choices can become expensive problems. The bedroom door feels wide until a walker has to pass through it. The bathroom works for a healthy adult, then fails once a shower chair The post In-Law Suite Ideas for an Aging Parent Moving In first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

There’s much more than meets the eye in a painting quote. A good one goes far beyond simple price per square foot, and going into the process unprepared can be like walking into a trap. Interior house painting costs are driven by surface area, ceiling height, surface condition, paint quality, and number of coats. Any The post What Affects Interior Painting Cost and How to Get an Accurate Quote first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

The fine for working without an EPA Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) rule-compliant certification can reach $49,772 per day per violation. That’s enough to ruin anyone, especially over multiple days and violations. But adhering to the RRP rule provides safety in addition to financial stability. What does that look like in practice, though? It’s much The post What is RRP Certification and Who Needs It? first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

Plumbing is usually overshadowed by the flashier aspects of a kitchen or bathroom remodel. Homeowners always focus on the finishes, tiles, cabinets, and fixtures. But plumbing is the underlying element that controls everything. No plumbing, no remodel. That’s why a home plumbing inspection is almost always worth it. Homeowners can get a better look at The post What’s Covered in a Home Plumbing Inspection? first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

Homeowners dream of remodeling their kitchens and hyperfixate on a specific number, building expectations around it. That’s an understandable position, but keeping that number realistic requires understanding project scope. A $25,000 project and a $70,000 project look very different. They can have entirely different cabinetry, countertops, and backsplashes. Add layout changes and plumbing moves to The post Average Kitchen Remodel Cost: What Homeowners Should Budget by Scope first appeared on […]

Most homeowners see window replacement as binary. Either a window fails unexpectedly and has to be replaced, or the replacement is a planned full-house undertaking. There’s a huge cost difference between those two scenarios, and it usually doesn’t have much to do with the windows themselves. Often, it has more to do with how much The post Window Replacement Cost: What to Expect and When It Makes Financial Sense first appeared on Transforming Interiors.

A kitchen remodel in an older Parsippany split-level or a bathroom renovation in a Denville colonial can stall completely before work starts, and home electrical upgrades are often the reason. Morris County has a large stock of homes built in the 1950s through 1970s. Most of them have never had their electrical systems updated to The post Home Electrical Upgrades Morris County NJ Homeowners Should Handle Before a Remodel first appeared on Transforming Interiors.