Remodeling Tips Archives - Chagrin River Company

A Plan for Lighting Each Room of Your Home

You take a lot of care with the appearance of each room of your home: the furniture selection and layout, how all the colors used coordinate with each other, the perfect art for the walls. But if you overlook the lighting of the room, then nothing else can be fully appreciated because it’s all [...]

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Tips for Surviving a Kitchen Remodel

When you decide to remodel your kitchen, you know you’re going to lose the use of that room for a while during the remodeling process. How long you have to “make do” will depend on the scope of the remodeling project, but you should always have a plan for how you’re going to deal with [...]

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More Elbow Room without a Bigger Footprint?

After you’ve finished your annual January de-cluttering spree, do you still feel you need more room in your home? Whether it's the number of closets, the number of bathrooms or elbow room in the kitchen, almost everyone could use more! But putting an addition on your home often can't be done because of lot [...]

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Green Building: 5 Tips for Getting It Right

At Chagrin River Company, we like to encourage our clients to consider making “green building” part of their custom home or remodeling project. We have the experience and expertise to guide you in using smart, environmentally-friendly materials and construction techniques. Once your home remodeling project is finished, you’ll also want it to continue being energy-efficient [...]

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3 Smart Approaches to Your Remodel or Custom Home Project

At Chagrin River Company, we believe these three approaches to remodeling and custom home building are smart and here to stay because they not only make your home more beautiful, they make it more comfortable and can save you time and money. Let’s take a look. 1. Green Building This term encompasses many aspects of [...]

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10 Remodeling Tips for a Successful Remodel

There are many ways to help assure you have a successful remodeling project. Based on our 30 years of experience working with homeowners, we've prepared the remodeling tips e-guide below. It details 10 remodeling tips we believe are among the most helpful. Please complete the download request form and when it is submitted you [...]

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Tips for Design Build Success

The success of your project and the quality of your experience is dependent on you selecting the right design-build remodeler or home builder. They should be right for your project in terms of qualifications and experience. And they should be right for you in terms being able to work with each other well. This is [...]

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5 Reasons to Pick Your General Contractor First

Unless you used the design-build approach for remodeling or building your home, you must select both an architect and a general contractor. Who you select as your architect is very important. And who you select as your general contractor is also very important. While you design your project before you build it, it is [...]

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Tips for Making Your Home More Accessible

The checklist below, provided courtesy of Transition Lift & Elevator, is great for making your home more accessible and safer for your or older love ones. Or for helping your parents make their home more accessible and safer. So, consider following the tips the next time you remodel or if you build a new [...]

Accessibility, Aging-in-Place, Living-in-Place, Bathroom Design & Remodeling, Kitchen Design & Remodeling, Remodeling Tips|

Lighting Changes Everything!

When you are considering a remodel, there are so many things to focus - cabinets, countertops, paint colors, new furniture - the list goes on and on. But one of the most critical aspects of any remodel or addition project is the lighting. Correctly lighting a space can change the very feel of the [...]

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