What a General Contractor May Suggest Your Home Needs This Fall in the Westerville and Bexley, OH Areas
This fall can be the ideal time to update some areas of your Westerville or Bexley, OH, home with significant, life-improving changes. Here are some ways a general contractor can improve the flow between your indoor and outdoor spaces.
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Enlarged Kitchen and Patio
A general contractor can be the ideal partner when you want to open your kitchen to the outside. If your kitchen is too dark and closed off to the backyard space, consider having a general contractor recommend ways to merge the two spaces.
Often an indoor kitchen has an access door to the backyard that is not really functional for your intended lifestyle. Contractors can upgrade the entire kitchen space with fresh cabinets, new appliances, and a better flow pattern. They can take your double windows and single door and convert them into folding or stacking glass doors that allow you to open your kitchen to the backyard with ease and style.
Your contractor can expand that small rectangle of poured concrete outside your back door into a full paver patio that adds more square footage to your living space. With custom patio pavers and a size that accommodates outdoor furniture and a dining set for al fresco meals, you can take advantage of the seasonal weather for any meal and working from home.
Refreshed Basement and Outdoor Fire Pit
Perhaps you have a basement that is a holding place for all the stuff you don’t know what to do with and it is time to clear that out for a more functional basement. Your general contractor can help you plan out the ideal way to update the basement for additional guest sleeping quarters, family TV nights, or any other use you have in mind.
While you are at it, trade that single door to the yard for a wall of windows and sliding French doors that lead out to a new patio and retaining wall space where the focal point is a custom fire pit. By connecting the deck above the basement to the new patio with stairs boasting a wire cable railing, you can move back and forth in these spaces easily.
The patio can be constructed of natural stone or patio pavers for a durable, smooth surface with minimal maintenance. At the end of the new patio can be the ideal place to situate a fire pit that pairs perfectly with the nearby stone or paver surface.
When your contractor adds a half-circle retaining wall around the fire pit, your patio can feel more private. Finished with shrubs and plantings that accent the new outdoor space, your basement and patio can become a favorite area for winding down at the end of the day and for entertaining your guests.
Any part of your home that needs an upgrade to showcase your personal style and serve your needs better can be where your general contractor could focus the efforts. A plus for you can be when you find a general contractor that is also well-versed in outdoor landscape improvements. This can streamline your home improvements since you deal with only one company that will oversee the entire project.
Now can be the right time to plan a home upgrade complemented by a landscape refresh that makes you feel like you got a new house in the process.
About the Author
In 2017, David C. Ludolph II and Kody G. Kavanagh joined forces to create PropertyWorx—one of Central Ohio’s leading full-service property solutions companies. With combined experience of over 50 years, we pride ourselves on taking both residential and commercial properties to the next level, by providing home and business owners with all they need to update, transform, and tend to their properties.
