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Recover from Extensive Home Damage by Remodeling

Extensive home damage can come in many forms. There’s flooding, pests, a fallen tree, fires, and so much more. Recovering from extensive home damage isn’t easy, financially or emotionally. In the end, there are two ways to move forward and recover from extensive home damage: moving or remodeling. Heidan Construction is here to give you some insight into why remodeling may be the best way for you to move forward.

Moving Comes with Its Own Pains

Moving away from the source of your pain can seem like the best solution. However, it’s important to remember that moving comes with its own pains. If you have kids, they likely have friends in the neighborhood. Moving may mean switching schools or saying goodbye to friends they’ve had for years. For you, it may mean getting a new job or getting a longer commute. Moving can seem like the easiest way to get away from the pain of watching your home fall apart but, in fact, remodeling comes with an even better opportunity.

Remodeling Facilitates Healing

Watching your home fall apart from any kind of disaster can be the height of misery. Our homes are our safe havens, where memories are made, children are raised, and love thrives. To see it all fall apart can be quite traumatic. This can make many of us jump at the chance to move away, hoping to wipe away the trauma of it all. However, it can actually be more emotionally beneficial to stay and remodel.

When you see your home destroyed, there’s a loss of control and safety. Getting to see your home rebuilt is a way of taking control of the situation. It allows you to remain in charge of your living situation in a more meaningful way than moving somewhere else. Plus, when it’s all remodeled and looks just how you remember it – perhaps a bit nicer – it can help you to feel less like your home was ever taken from you. After all, a home is just wood and paint. The safety it brings is often more from the family inside of it.

Remodeling Brings Opportunity

While many would prefer to have their home rebuilt or remodeled to look the way it was, others may find opportunity in remodeling. Has there always been something about your home that drove you crazy? Now’s your chance to change it. With a whole remodeling crew at your beck and call, you may as well knock out that unwanted wall and put in the kitchen island you’ve always wanted. Use the opportunity, not just to heal, but to move on from a home that wasn’t quite right for you.

If you’re ready to recover from extensive home damage by remodeling, give us a call at Heidan Construction. We look forward to helping you and your family recover from disaster and bring to life a home ready for many more years of use.

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Improve Your Quality of Life with a Complete Home Remodel

The affect your home has on your overall quality of life can be quite astounding! It’s amazing how much stress can add up when there are twenty little things about your home nagging at the back of your mind. Maybe there’s something that isn’t quite broken, but isn’t working how it’s supposed to. Or, perhaps there are growing accessibility issues as you get older. Take matters into your own hands and improve your quality of life with a complete home remodel from Heidan Construction.

Fix What’s Broken

The first step to improving your home is fixing what’s broken. Therefore, if you give us a list of all of the things in your home that need repair or replacement, we can make it happen. Say goodbye to that dripping faucet or the cracked step on the back porch. It’s the little things about our homes that we notice and store away in our minds. Even without a complete home remodel, a string of updates to the broken parts of your home will improve your quality of life drastically.

Refresh Paint and Flooring

Next on the list of things people underestimate are paint and flooring. Imagine for a moment that nothing in your home was changed except the flooring and paint. The entire place would feel nearly brand new! It’s incredible what a difference it can make to have a smooth, new surface under your feet and a wall that’s free of chips and discoloring.

If your kitchen and bathroom floors are outfitted with cheap vinyl sheeting, consider luxury vinyl tile instead. LVT is made of similar materials to vinyl sheeting, but is thicker, longer lasting, and higher quality. Plus, it can be designed and textured to feel and look just like hardwood or stone tile.

Update Your Kitchen

Arguably the most important room in the house, the kitchen is next in priority. If you ask most people, if they couldn’t have a complete home remodel, if they could only have one room remodeled, they would choose the kitchen. Kitchen appliances break down and go out of date within a decade. Cheap, laminate countertops get chipped, dented, and lose their edging. Cabinet shelves begin to warp and hardware comes loose. There are so many ways a kitchen can get worn down with daily use over many years. Let us reimagine your kitchen to the exact style you prefer.

Improve Your On-Suite

A newlywed couple moving into their first house rarely has an idea of what they really need in a home. However, once you’ve been in a house for a certain number of years, you get attached. If you have kids, you no longer feel like uprooting to move somewhere better. It’s a story many of us have lived. After all that time living somewhere that didn’t fit your needs, let us update your master bedroom and on-suite. You deserve a getaway within your own home. Let us give that to you. Give us a call at Heidan Construction when you’re ready to start the process and improve your quality of life with a complete home remodel.

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3 Features You Need for Dental Office Success

A dental office has some unique needs to take into account when designing or remodeling it. However, there are three key features that must be considered for dental office success. Let’s talk about the three most important features in a dental office and why they matter.

1. Privacy

One of the most important, and oft-overlooked, features needed for dental office success is privacy. Many dental offices just have lines of chairs with no more than 6 feet between them. This design is not patient friendly and has a terrible lack of privacy. If your dental office hasn’t been built yet, consider separate rooms for each patient. If you already have an office and are looking to remodel, we have just the thing: A frameless system.

Frameless systems are the interconnecting, glass walls and doors that help to divide an office space. These can be used in any type of office. What makes them different from standard office walls is that they’re completely glass and have no metal framing. That means there’s a seamless transition from one glass panel to the next. Cool, right?

A frameless system does more than just look nice. It offers patients confidentiality when talking with their dentist. This is important, not just for professionalism, but for legal confidentiality reasons. It also blocks out a significant amount of sound if installed floor to ceiling. What makes young or nervous patients more anxious than hearing the sound of a drill squealing away in the other room? Not much. Cut out the noise with a sound barrier.

2. Hygiene

Hygiene is another cornerstone of any type of medical practice. The thing is, the older a building is, without regular updates, the less hygienic it is. Old wood gathers dust and moisture, mildew grows under carpets people walk on with their shoes. The carpet also collects dust and allergens. Any dent, chip, or scratch in a counter or table can harbor bacteria that’s hard to remove.

Updating a dental office means improving hygiene, inherently. New paint on the walls kills bacteria, fills in places bacteria could hide, and makes walls easier to wipe down. New flooring means removing the built up germs and gunk from years of treating patients. Replacing windows and doors improves insulation, ensures pests have no way in, and bolsters the fight against outdoor germs.

3. Comfort

And, lastly, you’ll have a much higher level of dental office success if your office provides comfort. That means a layout that’s conducive to productivity for staff and leisure for guests. There should be enough room for all visitors to sit and wait without feeling cramped or uncomfortable. If not the waiting room, the treatment area should have large windows. This is a hallmark in dental offices for a reason. Taking in the outside world and focusing on nature makes it easier to cope with uncomfortable cleaning routines. Plus, the whole place feels bigger when there’s a whole wall missing – even if it is replaced by glass.

Remodel for Dental Office Success

If you want to succeed in the business of dentistry, you need a high quality construction team on your side. Heidan Construction is known across Toronto for our stylish, contemporary design styles. If you need your dental office remodeled, or a new one built, we’re here to help. Give your patients everything they need. A little design and construction expertise goes a long way. Give us a call if you’d like to schedule a consultation.

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Why Office Design Matters for Your Business

Design is more important than you may think. The design of the building you’re in changes everything from how you work, to how you feel, to how you move around the space. Heidan Construction is here today to talk about how office design matters for your business and its success.

Lighting Matters

One of the most important ways office design matters related to the lighting. Have you ever noticed how easy it is to feel sleepy in a room with dim, warm lighting? That’s because this subtle, warm lighting is similar to the hour before dusk. Our bodies equate it with the setting of the sun and the end of the day. It signals to us that it’s time to sleep.

However, bright, clear light does a great job waking us up. Have you ever sat outside when the sun rises? If you’ve ever gotten up at dawn to go to work, you might have noticed that the morning sunlight is bright and somewhat cold in color. That is the exact reason why bright lamps or overhead lights with cool color tones tend to wake us up. They aren’t very cozy, but they’re great at tricking our brains into staying awake.

The Importance of Color

Another thing that affects the behavior of employees and clients is color. Color is a surprisingly effective tool to alter people’s behavior. That doesn’t mean you can control people’s individual actions, but you can certainly influence their attitudes. That’s because color has a profound effect on the human brain. Our brains associate different colors with different needs and moods. If you take the effects of different colors into account when designing a workspace, you can optimize productivity.

Calming blues can help lower stress. Being stressed about work can actually make working harder. That’s why choosing calming blue tones for high-stress work environments can keep employees calmer, happier, and more productive. 

On the other hand, bright oranges boost energy levels. The same can be said of red. However, these colors can actually raise stress. If this is used sparingly, that raise in stress can be beneficial. These colors give the illusion of pressure – just enough that the brain kicks things into high gear.

Middle-tone greens can be a happy medium. Soft, earth greens help keep the balance between calm and productive. This is a great color for clinics, medical offices, and even home offices.

The Impact of Space

When it comes to ways that office design matters, space is one of the most important. The more space you have, the more room you have for employees to work comfortably. You can even expand your team if it’s not so cramped. If your office space is cramped, consider getting an expansion. Morale and productivity always goes up after a remodel. Plus, with more room, post-remodel is a great time to hire.

In addition to staffing capabilities, an expansion will also give you a new pitch to draw in customers. Advertise about your new expanded business and draw interest from potential clients. After all, an expansion and remodel is a great sign that a business is flourishing and is, therefore, reliable.

Design Build Contractors

Heidan Construction is the leading choice for business office remodeling and design build. There’s a good reason for that. Because we provide design build services, we can both design your new office or remodel and also build it. Don’t force yourself to juggle multiple teams. By giving us full control over your remodeling process, we can ensure the end results are of the highest quality possible.

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Use Heidan for Your Newest Clubhouse Design Build

For sprawling, residential apartment complexes, having a clubhouse is a must. This is where you can keep your office, where tenants can meet with you for the first time, and where amenities can remain accessible to your residents. When a new complex is being built, opting for clubhouse design build is the first step to success. Here’s how Heidan Construction can help.

What is Design Build?

If you’ve never heard the term before, design build is when your new building is designed and built by the same people. In the past, a team of architectural designers would help design a building and create a blueprint. That blueprint would then be passed on to a different construction team.

The problem with the traditional approach is that so much can be lost in translation when a blueprint moves from one team to another. With design build, you can sit down with us and help us make the best design for your needs. Then, with all of our experience talking with you, we can build your vision from the ground up.

Why Does Design Build Matter?

Design build truly is the future of architecture. Being able to trust that your construction team knows exactly what you had in mind is paramount. After all, following instructions for someone else’s design is possible, but it raises the chance of something going wrong or turning out different than expected. 

With your designers doing the constructing, we can make spur of the moment improvements where necessary. We can consult with each other on elements that may need adjustment. You wouldn’t get that kind of consideration and on-the-go improvement from a team that knows nothing about the design part of construction.

Clubhouse Design Build

Clubhouse design build comes with a specific set of needs. Moreover, designing a clubhouse isn’t like designing a home or an office. It combines the needs of many different buildings and brings them together into something cohesive.

For your clubhouse design build needs, Heidan Construction is the best choice for the job. We’ve got nearly two decades working as a team and creating some of the most stunning buildings in Toronto. And, after all, what makes someone want to move into an apartment complex more than a visit to a stunning clubhouse? Your clubhouse will be the face of your entire complex, and we intend to treat it with exactly the care and precision it deserves.

If you’re interested in hiring Heidan Construction to work on your clubhouse design build, give us a call. We would love to hear from you so we can get started on planning your design as soon as possible.

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Where to Look for Modern Home Design Build

Modern home design is advertised all over the place. Every construction team wants to try their hand at modern home building. The thing is, not every team has the experience they need to be considered experts at modern home design build. At Heidan, we’re proud of our over 18 years of experience working together to make the best modern homes in Toronto. It’s where we shine brightest. So, if you want a modern custom home or luxury custom home, check out these ways we can make that happen.

Trusting Locals

When it comes to getting a custom home, one might find themselves wondering where to look. The answer is simple: look locally. It can be easy to recall big brand names and immediately look to them for construction help, but it’s not always the right choice.

Hiring a local team means building a foundation of trust, as neighbors. When locals all over Toronto hire Heidan Construction, they strengthen that foundation. That foundation is where we build our reputation.

Because we’re local, you know we’ll be here for you if you have any future needs. We don’t swoop in to build and then leave without a trace, like big companies do. We’re here for you the entire time and will still be here when your home is built. That makes future renovations, remodels, additions, and more easy to explore.

Modern Home Design Build

Modern home design build is something really special. You know what design is, and you know what building is, so put the two together and you get design build. Our team does both parts of the building process all from one place. Your home will be designed and constructed entirely by us. That means there’s no need to juggle multiple teams to get your home built.

Luxury Custom Homes

Modern home design and luxury home design look great when combined. The style of a modern home and the elegance of luxury features means a home that will age beautifully and support your needs for as long as you live there.

What do luxury custom homes come with? The sky is the limit, really. Luxury custom homes come with any electronics you need, built right in to the home. Lights, blinds, locks, temperature, and alarms can be controlled from a smart device. There’s a TV wherever you need one. If you want your floors heated, they’ll be heated. If you’ve been dreaming of a fancy bidet in a sprawling on-suite, we’ll make it happen. Luxury is all about you and your needs coming first in all regards.

High Quality Outcomes

No matter what kind of home you want for us to design build, you can count on high quality outcomes. We excel at modern design and luxury, but we can make it sleek, cozy, traditional, or a vision of the future. It’s all dependent on what you want for your personal space. Therefore, we’ll model it entirely after your needs and provide you with the quality you expect in a custom home.