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Expanding Your Home Upward With A Second Floor

If you’re running low on space, expanding your home with an additional floor could be the solution for you. Why would you want to add a floor to your home? Let’s see how the process works so that you can be better informed!

No Yard Redesigning

If you need more space in your home, additions on the first level of your home can be a huge hassle. It alters the footprint of your home. You’ll need a foundation for your home and if you’ve got a septic tank or a lavishly designed garden in your yard, that can be a massive inconvenience. It’s expensive having to alter the design of your yard like that. You’re committing not only to the structural addition, but also to the landscaping that will have to be done to bring your property back to your standards.

Adding a second floor won’t have an effect on your yard design. There might be some messes during the construction process, but Heidan Construction professionals clean up after themselves. Your yard will look just as good as when construction started.

Some Things To Consider

When adding a second floor to your home, there are some things you’ll need to keep in mind that aren’t necessary to consider when adding ground level additions.

  • Your home might not be able to bear the weight of a second floor. At the very least, it will likely have to have some additional support added into the structure.
  • Instead of extending the current HVAC system, a second one might need to be installed. This will help keep the temperature of the house regulated. A single HVAC system can lead to inconsistent temperature in two-story houses due to the upper floor being warmer.
  • The second level’s floor structure can usually be installed over the top of the first level’s ceiling. This means your ceiling won’t need to be replaced.

A Second Floor Increases Property Value

Like most additions, a second floor expansion will increase your property value. Many people value two story houses more than single-story houses because it makes it possible to separate sleeping areas from active areas. A second floor also gives the house a bigger appearance from outside than a large one story house would have.

All of these aspects make adding a second floor give your home more appeal to buyers. If you’re planning on selling, giving your home another floor will help it draw a lot more attention than it would as a single-story home.

Our Team Will Help Every Step Of The Way

We know a big step like adding a floor to your home is stressful and can be somewhat overwhelming. Fortunately, Heidan Construction’s team of professionals will be there to help and answer questions every step of the process. If you’d like to find out more about giving your home another floor, please feel free to reach out to us. We can answer your questions and discuss pricing for future projects!

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How Can A Rear Addition Improve Your Home?

How Can A Rear Addition Improve Your Home?

Looking to give your home a pick-me-up can come from many different reasons. You could be selling soon and want it to catch the eye of the next buyer to stop by. Or maybe your family is growing and you need to expand so everyone has a little breathing room. No matter your reasoning, adding a rear addition to your home could be the next big step you take to improve your property. What benefits come along with a rear addition? Let’s look at a few of them.

It Preserves The House’s Appearance

If the front of your house already looks how you want it to, adding an addition off the side or front can completely ruin the balance. A rear addition won’t change the entire view of the front of the building. Therefore, you don’t have to redo the lawn or front gardens once construction is completed. You also manage to avoid the house becoming the neighborhood eyesore while building takes place.

It Can Serve Many Functions

A rear addition can serve many different functions. The back of the house is a great place for additional bedrooms, but it’s also the closest spot to the backyard. This is a fantastic place to add on a nanny suite accessible only from the outside. That kind of space is useable for in-laws, live-in nannies, or as a guest suite.

If you have a pool or other amenities in your backyard, a rear addition can also function as an adult space. The back of the house is a great place for something like a ground-level den. A guest space is also used this way when unoccupied. You could incorporate a bar, entertainment space, and add storage for things you can’t leave on the patio during wet seasons.

It Increases The Property Value

A rear addition, like any expansion of your house, will increase the property value. That makes it a great move if you’re planning on selling your home.. If you work with our team to design it strategically, it can even raise the property value by significantly more than you paid to have it built.

Make sure to include something useful or unique in your plans. The addition of a bathroom or a room that can function as a bedroom will make your house look even more appealing to families.

Improves Your Quality Of Life

No matter what you do with your extra space, it’s sure to improve your quality of life. You have more functionality and breathe life back into a house that’s grown to be boring. Plus, an addition is an embodiment of your hard work. Every time you use it or see it being used, you can relish in the pride of putting your hard earned money into improving your environment.

Heidan Construction aspires to excellence. We have professionals dedicated to quality. Adding on to your house is easy when you’ve got a team of experienced contractors leading the efforts, from beginning to end with no hassle to you. When all is said and done, you have a clean and functional new addition with no trace of the building process left behind.

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Trends In Interior Home Design

Trends In Interior Home DesignIt’s not always to be trendy that we take a look at trending design. Sometimes we just need some inspiration. Trends are just new enough that we haven’t seen anything quite like it before. So whether you incorporate these trends directly into your design or just build off of them to make your own unique space, we hope you enjoy a selection of this year’s best!

Wallpaper

That’s right! Wallpaper has made a grand return. Patterns and designs reminiscent of older years have been updated to fit in with our more modern interiors. Those patterns and designs go on best with wallpaper. The busy look of a patterned wallpaper behind a much more reserved selection of furniture really brings a room to life. It gives the design some character and marries old design and new design nicely.

The Color Black

While the return of black furniture isn’t very unexpected, black walls in particular might come as a shock to your sense of design. It’s been said for years that black walls will make a room look smaller, but they’re finally being recognized properly! Black walls don’t just close in a space, they can really make it look bigger. When paired with lighter walls and furniture, black walls can offer a nice dynamic. Using black for focus walls can make it feel like that wall is hiding extra space. Unlike with lighter colored walls, you can’t see immediate shadows right behind the furniture. It helps us ignore that there’s a wall there at all. It’s an inspiring look for sure.

Matte Surfaces

A very popular design lately has been matte texture! This has brought a whole new look to rooms like the kitchen, where matte counters make even a modern design look more friendly. The matte texture looks more soft and doesn’t give off the cold impression that a shiny surface does. Matte black has been especially present in design lately. It gives things a more serious look without the hard look it gives off when shiny like metal.

Gold and Brass

Gold and brass have been implemented in design in a lot of ways recently. Combining gold and black has been a great combination of Victorian and modern design. The gold gives off both warmth in color and sleekness in texture. That paired with a matte black leads to a truly stunning visual.

Using gold and brass as decorative assets has been a bold move. Having just moved away from brass in the last few decades, finding a way to incorporate them in design so soon was a stroke of genius. Most of us still have memories of outdated brass accents in our parents’ houses. Being able to bring that back without everyone cringing means we’ve really hit something wonderful. And who can deny it? Just look at how well brass and black contrast in say, a kitchen. The black really makes the metallic brass shine.

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Designing A Dignified Custom Home That’s Child Friendly

When designing your own home, if you have children in your life, safety will be a concern. But child-friendly homes always look so stuffy! How can you design a child-friendly home that still has the design flair you’re longing for? Here are some ways to achieve a sleek interior without sacrificing safety.

Glass Over Railings

If you have an open concept interior, your stairs might be a focal point in the design. Old-fashioned, wooden railings don’t really fit in with the plan, but leaving the stairs open is a huge safety risk with kids. The solution is some hardy glass! Heavy-duty glass paired with some metal anchor railings will leave the stairs still feeling open and modern. It will let light flow seamlessly from one room to the next. You can even add clear, adhesive films to the glass. These kinds of films will add an extra layer of strength and keep shattered glass from getting all over the place.

Cork Flooring

Cork floors are a wonderful choice for places in the house that don’t get a lot of wear. They’re soft to walk on and will be kind to children when they fall. Kids’ rooms and family rooms can benefit from the soft touch of cork flooring in more than one way. It helps tone down echo, is nicer to your joints, and won’t get as cold as harder flooring. And of course, cork floors have a very dignified appearance to them.

Area Rugs

Having young kids in the house will probably have them playing on the floor a lot. Babies especially will be crawling around where they can. If you’re set on hardwood flooring or laminate, getting an area rug is a must. Not only do area rugs help tie your decor together, they make playing safer and provide a soft surface. The baby can crawl around on the rug while you chat with guests or relax in front of the TV. The cool thing about an area rug is that it’s easier to wash than full-room carpet. If it gets stained beyond repair, it can be replaced for a lot cheaper too.

Ottoman

Having a large ottoman in the middle of the living room is great for functionality. Getting one with firm cushioning allows you to use it as a table in many cases. It provides great seating for guests, a great footrest when you want to kick back, and is also child-friendly.

Coffee tables, even rounded ones, pose a hazard to small children. You don’t want your baby hitting their head on the edge of any coffee table, whether the edge is round or sharp. An ottoman completely bypasses that issue. They’re soft and a bump on the head won’t leave your child any worse for wear.

As a matter of fact, ottomans aren’t just better for children for safety reasons. It also gives babies a great spot to pull themselves up and strengthen their legs with standing even when you’re too tired to hold them up. Older children can use the ottoman to play at and it also provides a great surface for the whole family to play games on.

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6 Ways to Integrate Your Company’s Brand Throughout the Office

 

Besides creating an inviting office, you can take your office design one step further by integrating your company’s brand with it. This is a powerful way to remind everyone what your company is all about.

 

Reception logo

Mounting your company logo on the wall in the reception area is a must. It’ll be the first thing people see as soon as they step through the front door.

The logo will often give you inspiration on how to style the rest of the office. If you play your cards right, your company branding will follow clients and staff throughout the office from the moment they lay eyes on your logo at reception.

 

Interior design style

Drawing from the aesthetic cues of your logo, you can determine what materials and architectural features best reflect your company branding. In addition, focusing on your company mission and values will also give you interior design ideas.

Something else you can consider is your company’s industry. If your business is tech-oriented, a modern or contemporary interior design may be the best fit. Or if you provide services to high-net-worth clients, you may opt for a more traditional look.

 

Furniture style

After you’ve narrowed down the office interior design style, choose furniture that would match and reinforce that style. When picking out furniture, remember that function and comfort is just as important as style. It’s key to integrating ergonomics into your office design.

 

Colour scheme

The colour scheme makes the most visual impact in reinforcing your company’s branding throughout the office. Again, your company logo will inform you on what colours to accentuate.

You can make use of colour in a variety of ways from wall and door paint to flooring surface and furniture upholstery.

 

Window treatments

You can even stamp your brand on the way you cover your windows! That can mean printing your company logo directly on the window treatments themselves or simply getting them in your company colours.

 

Room or zone names

Another creative company branding technique is through the names you give each room or zone in your office. If you name them in a way that links back thematically to your company name or business model, your clients and staff will subconsciously think about it every time they enter the room.

 

These ideas are great examples of how changing your office design will pay off in the long run.

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What’s the Secret to Picking Out the Right Furniture for Your Restaurant?

Restaurant Contractors Toronto

 

Picking out furniture for your restaurant can be a huge chore if you don’t keep the criteria that matter the most at the top of your mind:

 

Layout

Once you know the layout of your restaurant’s dining area, you’ll know exactly how much room you have to play with. It’ll also give you an idea on what big pieces to order first.

For example, are you going to have a booth section? Do you need large tables for banquets? Then you can see whether any furniture needs to be custom-made, which will make the next part of style easier to manage.

 

Theme

Your restaurant theme will organically grow out of the design for an attractive dining area. The theme will then inform you right away on your ideal furniture style.

What’s the first impression you want customers to have as soon as they step through the restaurant door? What details will help you maintain that feeling throughout their meal?

 

Comfort

Here’s another good question to ask yourself: how long on average do you want your customers to stay for a meal in your restaurant? The longer you want them to stay and spend on expensive menu choices, the more upholstered cushions you need to bring out.

Fast-food restaurants or canteens will lean more towards functional designs that encourage customers to finish their meals quickly and be on their way. Other restaurants whose customers will sit upwards of an hour for a meal will opt for inviting furniture customers can relax in.

 

Durability

Remember not to overlook quality either. The furniture you choose should be treated as an investment and as such, you want them to have a long time horizon. The best way to do that is to make sure the material is durable enough to withstand all the wear and tear during opening hours.

 

Maintenance

The restaurant industry is a messy business and you have to account for the efforts spent on upkeep. While you do your best to invest in the highest-quality material your renovation budget allows, you should also consider how easy it is to clean them. This means low maintenance for both daily cleanings and periodic deep cleanings.

 

Cheers to a good furniture hunting trip!