Reform your home to make it a success
Throughout our lives, our habits and needs are changing. Increasing the family, new entertainment needs or other space requirements are some of the causes that lead us to reform and update our house full. The first question you should take into account when making a reform is the structure of the building: Our team can help you see the state of the walls, if there are cracks, moisture, soils, walls, you will design a project where you can see in detail what Things are not safe to maintain and which ones you can leave. This point is essential for not having complications later with the house.
Keep reading and take note! We give you the keys to have excellent results when reforming our home.
1. Relocate spaces based on your needs
We are in time to change the original space of the House and adapt it to our needs. Maybe we need more rooms or, on the contrary, less rooms but more spacious. Perhaps a kitchen open to the living room is what we have always wanted… This is the moment, in which together with our team of professionals, Emperezaremos to plan each one of the spaces of our home. Besides, think about the future. For example, don’t limit yourself to your current needs, go ahead!
2. Spacious and connected spaces
If you need and want to get a feeling of amplitude the union of stays is a safe bet. Join the open concept, open and multifunctional spaces. Versatile stays that can be easily transformed. Eliminating partitions we managed to visually exploit our house, let the view enjoy without interruptions of pleasant spaces, spacious and tidy. That visual cleaning is one of the great advantages of this type of distribution. Take ideas from our article kitchen and lounge in the same space. Don’t miss it!
That is what we are doing in this attic located next to the neighborhood of Jesus in Valencia, where we find a very complex distribution given the irregular form of it. The best solution has been to make a kitchen open to the lounge to take advantage of natural light and exit to the outside. Soon you can see the result.
Think you need, active or passive stays? Use determines the finishes. The active areas of the house (living room, dining room, kitchen…) need more luminosity and warmer colors than passive stays (dormitories, studios…). Choose for the latest dim lights and less intense colors.
3. Recovering the old and empowering it
The return to the past is also a very interesting bet. If we strip the original skin of the house we will give value without having to resort to added decorative elements. It can be a brick partition seen as the one we rescued in this House of Puerto Rico Street, in the popular district of Ruzafa. If this type of intervention is limited to a very specific area, the decorative effect is really surprising.
4. Enhance lighting and cross-ventilation
If you enjoy several facades open to the light, it touches the South orientation, minimizing the west and adjusting the size of the north, depending on the weather. If your house is between party walls, the distribution has to help the light flow. Ideas? It reduces compartmentalization and corridors, and places the most used areas in the brightest areas.
This avoids one of the most common problems, the excess of humidity in winter, a simple and comfortable trick is the cross ventilation, opening the windows of the ends of the domicile so that the current cleans the interior atmosphere.
5. Comfort and Energy saving
The right thing to maintain the comfort in our home when we make a reform, is to insulate facades, roofs, floors, walls, enclosures in contact with spaces without heating and change windows. Read our article: How to improve the isolation of your home. The goal is that the house has a stable temperature throughout the year, and that your spending on heating and electricity is reduced. In fact, old houses are a snapping of energy. If they are rehabilitated so that they are energetically more efficient, you can get savings of the order of 30%, or more.
6. Personal decoration
The last step to consider is the decoration. We already have the complete reform, you have chosen the distribution, invested in eliminating the humidity, you have left some original elements of the structure… Now comes perhaps the most fun: Make it beautiful! Enjoy this moment. He thinks that our way of dressing and our look varies during the year adapting to the temperature and tendencies. Why not dress up our home to feel completely at ease at every moment of the year? Let’s get to work and enjoy!
Do you need complete advice to provide comfort solutions to your home? Contact us! We will be happy to advise you to make your home fit your needs.