Is A Home Addition The Right Choice For You?

If your homestead is feeling increasingly cramped cozy as the months go by, and you’ve begun to feel a distinct need for more elbow room, you have some options you’ll need to think through. Decluttering, redecorating, and remodeling are all potentially great ways to make the same space feel bigger, or you could always try your luck on the market and try to buy a bigger home somewhere nearby.  Or, if you aren’t ready to pull up your stakes and depart the family castle, you

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5 Ways To Maximize Your Space From a Home Addition 

Like renovations and remodels, home additions are significant investments and large-scale house projects that can absolutely improve the character, usability, flow, and value of your home as a whole. But unlike a remodel, a home addition doesn’t just give your existing space an update: it creates MORE space for you and your family to spread out into.   But, as with everything in life, there are tradeoffs:  • The larger the project, the greater the expense.   • The bigger your house grows,

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The Benefits of Natural Materials For Your Home Remodel

There’s no one right way to remodel a home. From layouts to finishes, fixtures, colors, and décor, you can take any project in countless directions. Each unique and each with its own flavor, advantages, and disadvantages. But no matter your style or theme, there are plenty of reasons why you should consider using real, natural, renewable materials like stone, brick, hardwoods, softwoods, bamboo, and cork in your next major West Michigan home renovation. Here’s why: Wood and Stone are Eternal

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5 Ways To Make Your Updated Kitchen Design Feel Timeless

In light of the holiday season and the dawning of a brand-new year, the team here at Amber Valley Construction would like to invite you to give yourself and your loved ones one of the best gifts out there: a brand-new kitchen that works hard and that will keep looking fresh for years and decades to come. But successful, timeless kitchens don’t just happen by accident. You have to know what you’re doing and what kitchen features of the past

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5 Reasons You Really Do Need To Remodel Your Kitchen

Suppose you have a kitchen that feels dated, or cluttered, or dysfunctional, or that just doesn’t work for you. And yet you’ve been hesitating to pull the trigger and dive into a remodel. We understand. Remodeling can be a stressful and expensive process, especially if you decide to do the work, or even just parts of the work, alone on your own time. And there are a lot of decisions to make along the way. Besides, no one wants to live and

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Farmhouse? Contemporary? Modern? Understanding Home Design Styles

You don’t have to be an industry insider to appreciate the character and influence of a kitchen or living space with a clear, well-developed design identity. But, as beautiful as Instagram-worthy homes can be, in a much deeper sense home designs aren’t about the home at all. They’re about the people who live there. They’re about you. Is your home an ornate, welcoming, traditional or farmhouse space? A sparse but sophisticated modern gallery? A contemporary or transitional sanctuary? Or something

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