The kitchen is one of the most important rooms in your home most people consider it the heart of the home. Needless to say there are times when the homeowner will want a change of scenery. The years can take a toll on a kitchen, normal wear and tear and the raising of children can be exceptionally hard on this room. When the home happens to reside in Lake Tahoe there is a place to go to help with the remolding and designing needs. Spirit Interior Design and Gallery are ready and waiting to attend to your design and modeling needs. A specialist designer with all major aspects of interior design Spirit gallery is prepared to help you with whatever questions you have.

Being in business for well over 20 years Cathy Nason and her staff are committed to the satisfaction of their clients. Customer satisfaction is a number one priority to the Spirit Gallery staff; this allows them to tackle even the most complex of design issues. Now every homeowner has a vision of what the kitchen redesigned will look like as well as an idea as to what financial resources are available to them to make this happen. It would be more than prudent to share this vision with an experienced design consultant so that they may use their years of experience to fine tune your vision. This will create for the homeowner a kitchen that will be enjoyed on many levels by the whole family.

The kitchen is arguably where the most accidents in the home occur. Spirit can help design your kitchen to help avoid potential accidents, in both ordering the right materials and the processes in which they are installed. They can also be a big help in ensuring that the most durable and elegant materials are made available and at the lowest possible cost to the homeowner. Trade discounts with different suppliers allow Spirit gallery to pass on the savings to the homeowner.

One of the growing concerns to the public at large is the use of environmentally or eco-friendly products and processes in the construction and commercial industry. Spirit gallery is responsive to this call from the public and so has pledged to the best of their ability to only use eco-friendly products in their designs for their clients. At the same time there is no reduction in quality or beauty in the end result of the homeowner’s kitchen design. Spirit also maintains a very extensive portfolio of other remodelled kitchens in the surrounding area for the homeowner to garner design ideas and concepts.

Filling a whole house with décor can be quite costly. Most homeowner’s budgets do not allow such an endeavor. If you can afford to renovate just one room of the house, the kitchen should be the top choice.

It is the main hub of activity in most homes, and draws a lot of attention. Before starting, look around the existing kitchen and see what can be done to add a modern twist to an older style. Using a bit of paint and some elbow grease can make the new kitchen warm and inviting everyone who walks through it. You’ll be surprised how much can be changed without needing to make any structural changes, or tear anything down.

Removing old wallpaper and replacing it with new paint, makes a huge difference. Choose warm colors to give the kitchen some pep, colors such as a pale green, soft peach, baby blue or even a golden.  If you’re feeling creative try sponging, glazing or even adding stucco to the paint.

Instead of buying new cabinets, re paint or re finish the ones already there. The same option applies to a wooden kitchen table and chairs. Adding some decals on the backs of the chairs, or the front of the cabinets will have everyone wondering where you got such great looking kitchen accessories. Cushions can be re-upholstered, or adding a few decorative pillows in the color scheme of your kitchen makes an impact too.

The largest impact, second only to the walls, is the floor. Laminate tiles or if you want very easy, peel and place tiles, can create a very dramatic look, for very low cost. It is also a very simple part of renovating, easily accomplished in one long weekend.

If your refrigerator and oven are the problem, there is PVC contact paper that creates a modern stainless steel look. Simple place these tiles down over the stove and fridge for a new appliance without the cost of one. This PVC paper can also be used on the current countertops, peel and placing right over the existing old counter.

There are many ways to save money, with a little creativity. These creative ideas cost only a very small portion of what it would otherwise be to redo the kitchen. This little cost also makes it easier to take on the project yourself, without risking expensive materials. Walking into the kitchen each morning for coffee, you’ll look around and feel proud.