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The 3 Biggest Kitchen Remodeling Trends for This Year and Beyond

Written by @fl@nsburg on January 22, 2024. Posted in NJ Home Improvement.

If you’ve been putting off a kitchen remodel, it’s time to get started with the help of a kitchen remodeling company. With the new year comes new kitchen remodeling trends, and you’ll be sure to find a few to fall in love with. Let’s take a look at the three biggest kitchen remodeling trends taking over 2024.

1. Connection to the Outdoors

If you’re interested in fostering a deep connection with the outdoors and embracing sustainable design, this may be the kitchen remodeling trend for you. The key to this design is maximizing natural light, which is done by installing large glass doors and generously sized windows to take full advantage of the natural daylight. Top it off with natural stone or real hardwood countertops and enjoy a space that connects your needs with nature and sustainability.

2. Appliance Garages

Do you love making yourself coffee every morning? What about a homemade margarita at night? If so, you are probably familiar with appliance clutter on your countertops. Luckily, according to the NKBA kitchen trends report, 60% of designers surveyed said dedicated beverage areas are a design layout that will be popular in 2024. A great dedicated beverage area that a kitchen remodeling company can make is an appliance garage. Store your coffee maker, smoothie blender, or margarita machine along with cups and mugs in a dedicated appliance garage that can be closed to hide away your items when not in use.

3. Invisible Kitchens

Do you love the minimalist style? If so, an invisible kitchen may be a 2024 kitchen remodeling trend you want to take up. Most popular in open-concept rooms with a contemporary design, invisible kitchens enclose your entire kitchen inside a wall of doors. These doors open easily and don’t block the space, so you don’t lose any functionality when in use. However, when not in use, the doors will completely seal the kitchen off from the rest of the home so it’s not in view.

There are dozens of new 2024 kitchen remodeling trends, and not all of them are listed here. Layer lighting, colorful cabinetry, multitasking islands, statement hoods and backsplashes, and smart technology are all trending as we get into 2024. Did you see a trend you want to get started with? Need some more ideas? Get in touch with our kitchen remodeling company in New Jersey at Flansburg Construction today! Our design build team can’t wait to get started creating the kitchen of your dreams.

4 Reasons to Expand Your Kitchen in 2024

Written by @fl@nsburg on January 20, 2024. Posted in Kitchen Remodeling.

Kitchens are meant for cooking, baking, entertaining, eating breakfast with your family, and laughing at the dinner table together. As we shift into a new year, you may be ready to upgrade your kitchen so you can enjoy these many activities each and every day. Here are a few reasons to consider expanding your kitchen with the help of our expert kitchen remodeling company.

1. Increase Storage Space

There’s nothing worse than not having a designated space for all your kitchen items. Whether you have a beautiful pots and pans collection, glass Tupperware for transporting meals to the office, or a variety of classic glassware for your favorite drinks, all your kitchen appliances, dishware, and more deserve a home. By expanding the space, our remodeling contractors will ensure you have all the storage you could ever need in your dream kitchen.

2. Ease Meal Preparation

If both you and your partner want to use the kitchen for preparing dinner and whipping up a tasty treat to devour afterward, you should both be able to utilize the space with ease. Our kitchen remodeling company can expand your kitchen to create additional countertop space! You’ll love cooking, baking, and prepping food.

3. Entertain With Confidence

As a professional design build firm in New Jersey, we understand that many of our clients are looking to improve their kitchens not just to make their day-to-day lives easier but to feel also proud of their homes. If you enjoy entertaining in your home, you know that the kitchen remains a common area to mingle over appetizers, create memories at the dinner table, and laugh over specialty cocktails. Our kitchen remodeling contractors will design your kitchen to entertain if that’s a priority for you!

4. Improve First-Floor Dynamics

According to Houzz, kitchen remodeling is the most popular home improvement project among homeowners in the United States. That’s because the options are endless! For example, you may consider an open-concept kitchen. It improves first-floor dynamics in a home because its design is free-flowing. While some guests are watching the big game in your living room, you can be serving hors d’oeuvres in your kitchen’s sitting area and all feel part of the same space.

As you can see, our kitchen remodeling company in New Jersey can improve the aesthetics and functionality of the most-used area in your home. Contact our team at Flansburg Construction today to get started on designing your dream kitchen.

Turn Your Basement Into the Ideal Entertainment Space

Written by @fl@nsburg on January 3, 2024. Posted in NJ Home Improvement.

Do you love hosting friends for game nights, holiday parties, and sports games? Perhaps you’re ready to create a brand-new entertainment space with all the amenities you’ve been dreaming about. With the help of experienced home renovation contractors, your basement can be transformed into a sleek and fun entertainment space. Here are some considerations for such a project.

Design a Bar

An entertainment space isn’t complete without a bar! With a gorgeous counter, comfortable barstools, shelving to hold your liquor, mini-fridges, and overhead lighting, your basement remodeling contractor can create an impressive space all your friends will love. You can make fun drinks between enjoying snacks and mingling.

Include Games

Games aren’t just for kids. Pool, foosball, and darts are excellent additions to your entertainment space. With a large TV, you and your guests can enjoy a game of darts while watching the latest football game on the big screen. Our home renovation contractors can ensure the space feels open and relaxed while including space for the latest entertainment features.

Choose Comfortable Seating

When it’s time to sit and chat, be sure you have comfortable seating and plenty of legroom for your guests. Our contractors can remodel your basement so there is plenty of space for couches, a coffee table, end tables, and even a fireplace to complete the look. This area of your entertainment space is important because it ties the room together and provides a luxurious yet relaxing atmosphere for those weekend evenings you invite your friends over.

Add a Bathroom

Instead of going up and down the stairs to use your first-floor bathroom, why not include a new powder room in your basement? Our reliable remodeling contractors can design a beautiful bathroom for your entertainment space complete with sleek countertops, a spacious vanity, and tile flooring. You’ll love the convenience of having a bathroom in your newly designed basement!

Extend the Space Outside

According to a Houzz study, about two-thirds of homeowners enjoy using their outdoor spaces for relaxing. With that in mind, our remodeling company can bring your entertainment space outdoors! We can redesign your basement so you can walk right outside and enjoy a comfortable seating area. You can outfit this extension with cozy outdoor furniture, heaters, lighting, and greenery. This addition will be ideal for warm New Jersey summer nights!

Choose Flansburg Construction for all your home remodeling needs. Our home renovation contractors are trusted by New Jersey homeowners for our expert design build services. Contact us today to get started on your project.

Why You Should Consider a Sunroom Addition

Written by @fl@nsburg on December 29, 2023. Posted in NJ Home Improvement.

If you’re interested in an addition to your home, you may consider a sunroom. Our home renovation company has designed and built many sunrooms for homeowners who would like extra space for various purposes. Keep reading to learn more about why you should consider a sunroom addition for your home in New Jersey.

Furnish for Coziness

A sunroom constructed with proper insulation, heating and cooling, electrical wiring, and interior finishing is suitable to use all year long. This means you can curl up with a cup of coffee or your favorite book and enjoy a restful morning or evening in this comfortable space. Our remodeling contractors will work with you to ensure you get the right amount of space in your new sunroom for all the furniture you’d like, such as a window seat, a couch, a coffee table, and more.

Soak Up the Sun

New Jersey can get cold in the winter months, which is when it’s important to get much-needed vitamin D. When you hire our home renovation company to construct an addition, you will be able to sit in your new sunroom all winter long and get the sun your body needs. Our design build firm can install large, beautiful windows to keep your sunroom bright and warm!

Entertain Loved Ones

Your sunroom can be the ideal sitting room, but it can also be the perfect entertainment space when you’d like to have a quiet evening with friends to sip wine, enjoy snacks, and relax with some good music. Fortunately, our experienced sunroom addition contractor can ensure you have the best layout for entertaining. This may include adding a mini fridge, a wine bar, and a table.

Add Value to Your Home

HomeLight states that new sunroom construction offers a 50% return on your investment. This means that investing in a new sitting space is a great way to impress future buyers. More importantly, it will be a room everyone in your family will adore for years to come.

According to Today’s Homeowner, in 2022, Americans spent about $427 billion on home improvement projects. If you’re ready to get started on a sunroom addition, turn to our reliable home renovation company. Our team at Flansburg Construction is proud to offer experienced remodeling services. Contact us today to get started!

Modern and Multigenerational: A Total Home Refresh to Make Room for the Whole Family

Written by @fl@nsburg on December 22, 2023. Posted in Aging in place, Bathroom Remodeling, Kitchen Remodeling, NJ Home Improvement, NJ home remodeling.

With a parent set to move in, our recent clients asked us to help them transform their West Windsor home into a functional, multigenerational space that would accommodate the whole family—from teenagers to an aging grandparent. To give everyone adequate space, a 700-square-foot addition was definitely in the cards, but it needed to flow well with the rest of the house and everything needed to reflect the homeowners’ contemporary style.

Separate Suites

Starting with the addition, we created a private space for our client’s parent with a bedroom, bathroom, and separate entrance. Rich mauves and deep purples lend a richness to the suite, with gold fixtures and pops of white adding just the right amount of brightness to the look. Finally, a separate HVAC system means this portion of the house is completely contained.

We then reimagined the house’s second floor into a “princess suite” by adding a new bathroom in a pink and white color palette. A light-grained marble countertop and sleek, modern hardware elevates the vanity while a stunning teal tile accent wall creates a wow-worthy moment in the new walk-in shower. A custom nook holds all of the essentials, while a rain shower head and a handheld wand ensure a luxurious bathing experience.

Finally, we remodeled the existing hall bathroom on the second floor in a chic grey-white-and-neutral palette before connecting it with the second bedroom for another private suite experience.

To finish off the second floor, we also moved the laundry room upstairs to make chore days easier.

A Dark and Dramatic Kitchen

To create the kitchen of our clients’ dreams, we enlarged their existing space by removing a wall. Then we leaned into their love of contemporary and eclectic style elements to enhance the space.

Frameless, European-style cabinets in an impressive matte black dominate the space for sleek floor-to-ceiling storage. In the center of the room, a spacious island topped with a quartz countertop provides ample seating and houses the sink for easy cleanup. Along the back wall, the oven looks out onto the back deck through a custom picture window—the perfect way for the home chef to feel connected with guests while hosting.

Integrated appliances throughout, including a specialty wine fridge, add yet another layer of quiet luxury. A custom dining table in a rich redwood with a waterfall edge provides plenty of seating while injecting just the right amount of warmth. Stunning tonal wood floors add visual interest as they stretch across the space, and for the finishing touch—and a bit of glam— bright, modern lighting fixtures draw the eye up.

Design-Build Details

No home transformation would be complete without addressing the essentials. To give the outside of this house a well-deserved facelift—and to ensure the addition matched the rest of the structure—we replaced the siding, opting for a warm taupe color. For maximum efficiency, we chose to use Anderson windows throughout, including for the custom picture window in the kitchen. Finally, our design team selected paint colors from Farrow and Ball to set the mood in each of the spaces we renovated.

The final effect of this home transformation is truly show stopping! With a modern and dramatic flair, careful planning to give everyone a space of their own, and touches of luxury throughout, our clients couldn’t be happier with their transformed home.

Although it can seem tricky to create a multigenerational layout that meets the needs of everyone in the family without losing any style, the possibilities are truly endless with a bit of design ingenuity.

Looking for a way to make your house work for your expanding family? The Flansburg team can help — schedule a consultation with one of our design experts today!

Looking to Increase Your Home’s Square Footage? Here Are 3 Great Home Addition Ideas

Written by @fl@nsburg on December 15, 2023. Posted in NJ Home Improvement.

When it comes to increasing the square footage of your home, there is no shortage of options. According to HomeAdvisor, the ROI on adding a second story is 65%, clearly adding to the value and curb appeal of your home. While adding a second story is one of the common home additions design build teams complete, there are many other ways to add square footage to your home, especially when it comes to improving your day-to-day life. Here are a few ideas we’d love to collaborate on.

1. Add a Room Over Your Garage

If you’re looking for a great way to increase your home’s square footage without turning your main living space into a construction zone, home additions over the garage may be your perfect option. Once the home additions are done, this space is highly versatile. Use it as a home office, a dedicated kids’ playroom, an in-law suite, or a guest bedroom.

2. Convert Your Porch Into a Sunroom

A porch is a great feature on any property, but it is not considered livable square footage. If you want to increase your home’s square footage, consider converting your porch into a sunroom with heating and cooling, a durable roof, and windows with the help of our sunroom addition experts. Your sunroom will feel like a second living room when you add furniture, lighting, a coffee table, and more!

3. Create a Dedicated Laundry Room

Is your washer and dryer in the basement or first level of your home? If so, you know firsthand how much more convenient it would be to have your laundry room on your main level or second floor where all your bedrooms and closets are. If your laundry area is unfinished, too small, or barely functional, creating a dedicated laundry room with home additions can be the perfect solution to increase your home’s square footage.

At Flansburg Construction, we’re the residential home addition company New Jersey homeowners trust. Whether you are looking to start a home addition project listed above or are looking to expand your primary suite, bathroom, or kitchen, we can help. By taking a look at our former projects, you’ll get an idea of the results you can expect. Give our experienced and dedicated team a call today to speak with our design build renovation contractors.