Deciding what you want to do and creating a budget is easy with help and we would be more than happy to assist. You can add all the bling like Tommy Hilfiger did when we renovated his place or you can create a Chef’s Kitchen as we have done many times. The decision is yours and staying within a budget that works is on us. 

  On a high level overview the first place to start is create a wishlist of items you would want in any home. Then we can go over the items to give you ballpark cost to implement these items in your current home. This will help you decide what should stay in the scope of work or go. Once we have narrowed down the costs and scope of items you want, we can then engage an architect to draw up a plan with your designer. Once they have finished we can send the plans out for hard numbers, define the scope of work and pull permits to begin the build. 

Sound simple?

  It really is and you should always keep in mind is the overall cost compared to what your improved home would be worth. The value of improving your home compared to the cost of moving into a new home with a new mortgage. That perspective should define what is a have to have or have not. 

  Earlier I mentioned an Architect and an Interior Designer. These are very important people to implement into your project. I have seen many finished projects where the builder is the architect and designer. That is a huge mistake for an owner to make. Architects and Designers are involved in current designs and they have an educated background of design style. You do not want to throw everything into your project without having a design. You also want to stay away from trends and fads as they go away as fast as they appeared. A great Architect can design a second story that looks like your home was built that way from the beginning. A great Designer is going to tell you that a barn door for your bathroom is not a great idea and gives you no privacy. They will tell you that black fixtures while popular in the south is a design already out of style elsewhere and polish chrome is the current design style. Can you imagine renovating or building a new home and within a year the fixtures  your builder selected are outdated design style? There are numerous new homes for sale where I can tell the builder is the designer and it shows horribly. Most design comes from Europe and is picked up in NYC and spread around the U.S. What you see here in the South or the West Coast may be dated already in NYC and Europe. Why choose something that is out when you can create something current that will be in style for the next 10+ years? Black window frames, black fixtures, have been a style from 2009, in most design situations it is not really in today.