Remodeling your house in Utah is great, it gives you a chance to get creative and really make your house unique from any other house. The thing most people don’t realize is remodeling your home does not necessarily mean your house. You can remodel your home by remodeling your yard. This type of remodeling is usually over looked because many would not think of it as actually being remodeling. So what is remodeling? Remodeling is just the action of change. So whenever you change something especially when it’s a drastic change it’s a remodel.
The most common type of this outdoor remodeling is usually in the back yard with the installation of a pool. Introducing a pool into your back yard is a great way to remodel it. Its adding something that wasn’t there before that makes you happy and that you can get use out of. However you don’t have to stop there remodeling by putting in a pool is a start , but what can you add to the idea of a pool that takes the remodel a little further? The answer is a deck.
A deck is a great addition to go with the addition of the pool. However if you have a in-ground pool a deck will probably be of little use to you so you instead my lay tile or Astroturf around the pool in order to keep from tracking grass into it. Another often over looked remodel to the yard are flower beds.
Flower beds can make your house look beautiful from the outside and also offer a pleasing sent. Flower beds are also probably the least expensive remodel that you can add to your home because mulch and seed hardly cost anything at all and flower beds take almost no time to install. Also a great and easy addition to any home is a basketball court. While this is usually not for show it is still considered a remodel because you still changed something.
In many way and in most cases out door remodels are much cheaper that in door remodels. The reasons for this is there is usually less to buy and less work to do and they usually take less time and don’t inconvenience anyone who may be living there while they are being installed. The last but not least out door remodel I want to talk about is paving. Many people now a days are paving their drive ways and basketball courts in order to get away from using gravel because gravel is dirty and causes unneeded filth.
Another benefit to paving your drive way is it looks nice and smooth and not scruffy and rugged. Also by paving your drive way you will notice that your vehicles stay a lot cleaner and require washing a lot less. Plus a new addition to paving is being able to have a heated driveway installed so that snow and ice can’t build up on it in the winter. These are just simple ways to remodel your outside that you probably would have never considered to be remodels, and that are fun, easy to do, and relatively inexpensive.
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Remodeling Outdoors in Utah Can Be Fun
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010Including the Outdoors in Home Remodeling
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010A backyard isn’t the same as it used to be – a place to grill, where kids play ball, or just an extra spot to mow. Now the trend is to make the backyard an outdoor retreat or an extension to the house. The Home Remodelers Group® can help transform your outdoors into a beautiful year round sunroom, a deck for entertaining or even an outdoor kitchen.
As reported in the May 2006 Consumer Reports, designing and furnishing an outdoor room is the second most likely home-remodeling project to do. Specifically, approximately 1.2 million U.S. households will install a fully functional outdoor kitchen, according to a study by the industry research company inquiry.
In 2004, Better Homes and Gardens magazine received survey responses from nearly 60,000 Americans describing home improvement projects and future home-building aspirations. Better Homes and Gardens found that people want indoor/outdoor livability, technological innovations, flexibility for family needs and a kitchen-centric focus. (REMODELING Magazine, September 1, 2005)
Homeowners are seeking ways to make the outdoors a functional part of the living area. To accomplish that, the barriers between outdoors and indoors, such as walls and solid doors, are going away. As cited in “A Simple Way to Increase Outdoor Living Space†at HGPgal.com, for homeowners looking to add to their living space, improve their lifestyle and increase the resale value of their home, the perfect solution is to extend living areas outdoors through the addition of decks, patios, outdoor kitchens and entertainment areas.
“The line between the house and the outdoor space continues to disintegrate,” says Julie D. Taylor, author of Outdoor Rooms. “Many designers are using the same, or similar, materials both on the interior and exterior to extend the house to the outdoors. It breaks down the barrier and gives a feeling of a larger house.”
Alternatively, instead of thinking of the barriers disintegrating, another solution is effective indoor-outdoor connections. These connections can include French doors opening up onto a porch, or the addition of a window to expose a lovely view. Indoor-outdoor connections can be as simple as adding a mudroom between the garage and the home, or more complex, such as an outdoor entertainment area placed just outside the doors of a home’s main gathering space. Adding visual connections to the outdoors, such as through the addition of glass doors or enlarging a window, adds value to your home by making its interior space appear larger than it actually is. (“Connect Inside of Your House with the Beauty Outdoors,†Ann Robinson, Deseret News, April 2005)
To create the outdoor living space that you want, start by determining your budget and your desires.
Consumer Reports provides some tips about what to consider for building room extensions or outdoor entertainment areas:
* Determine how you will use your space
* Consider location
* Be sure to weatherproof
* Incorporate lighting and heat
* Consider safety
No matter what extension you decide to make, it will undoubtedly add value to your home. As cited by Ann Robinson in Deseret News, “Exterior living space adds usable square footage to your home without costing you the $120-plus per square foot you’d spend for the construction of an addition.â€
The Home Remodelers Group® can work with you to determine your indoor-outdoor remodeling desires. We have many gorgous sunroom plans and other renovating features available on our website at www.homeremodelersgroup.com. So, if you need a new area to relax and enjoy reading your favorite book, a place to create a new home gym, a place to add a spa to create your own special oasis, or an area for entertaining family and friends, a new sunroom, deck, or outdoor kitchen may be the perfect solution. We can help bring the outdoors in or take your family out in a comfortable and relaxing setting.
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