Archives for July 2015

Enjoy a cohesive effort from all sides of your renovation team

July 8, 2015 By tylermandic Leave a Comment

Having your house renovated professionally is a great idea but it involves a necessary amount of preparation. Perhaps the most significant preparation you need to make involves choosing the right people to take charge of the job. This means doing your research and picking professionals with the right credentials and the right reputations for the work you need doing.

You can actually save yourself a great deal of hassle if you look for a building company that looks after all aspects of your renovation, rather than trying to find professionals from separate firms and trying to bring them together for your project.

It represents a real challenge for homeowners and project managers when they have to work with separate teams and breakdowns in communication can lead to problems with scheduling and costs. However, working with a dedicated design and build company side steps all of these issues by making sure everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet.

Taking this approach reduces the pressure on you and allows you to benefit from a more cohesive effort from your architects, your designers, your builders and your project manager.

Start afresh with a comprehensive renovation of your house

July 7, 2015 By tylermandic Leave a Comment

The state of your home is obviously a matter of some pride. It makes sense to take a very keen approach to the upkeep of your home, but sometimes the odd minor improvement just isn’t enough. If your London home is starting to show its age as far as the interiors are concerned then it might be time to look at putting into effect a more comprehensive renovation.

There’s only so many times you can dress up your interiors by redecorating and refurbishing on a small scale before it becomes apparent that a deeper job is needed. At this point, you need to get the professionals in. Building companies in London are used to dealing with properties that have a great deal of history so you can expect a great deal of respect and professionalism when you contract them to work on your home.

By investing in a thorough renovation of your home, you can start from scratch with your interior design and benefit from a fresh, clean slate on which to work. This is the ideal basis from which to revamp your home and make it more appropriate and aesthetically pleasing for your modern family.

Modern living influenced by minimalist design

July 1, 2015 By tylermandic Leave a Comment

Modern interior design is incredibly attractive and a lot of people are updating their homes in order to create a more contemporary environment. The great thing about a lot of modern interior design is that it is influenced quite strongly by minimalism.

Minimalistic design involves removing all unnecessarily embellishments so that you are left with a much cleaner and less fussy interior atmosphere. Whilst minimalism probably takes this to the extreme, a lot of interior designers take the central theme and influence of the movement on board when renovating older homes in order to make them feel brighter and more contemporary.

There’s just something very sophisticated in the clean lines and neutral tones found in many modern interior renovations that help to brighten the atmosphere and make it feel spacious and comfortable.

If you like the idea of a home whose interiors are influenced by minimalist design then it might be time to get the professionals involved. Professional architects and interior designers are capable of transforming even the most dated interiors into really stylish and contemporary spaces ideal for modern living.

Sourcing builders and designers under a common project management firm

July 1, 2015 By tylermandic Leave a Comment

Finding builders to help turn your modernisation plans into a reality is all about knowing where to look and who to trust. London is chock full of skilled tradesmen who are capable of transforming your property, but it is all about how the project is managed that really makes it a success.

Project management is necessarily about communication. This is made much easier if the project manager for your modernisation project is actually part of a company that can also handle the design and architecture and the actual building work that needs to be done.

The obvious benefit here is that communication is much easier within the boundaries of a single company offering a range of services instead of trying to bring a host of different tradesmen together for a single project working for diverse firms and organisations.

Concerning property renovation, London is definitely one of the leading cities in the UK. There are experts in building renovation available for consultation whose expertise lies in a number of different fields, including design, architecture, building and interior design – all very important disciplines when it comes to effective and attractive refurbishments.