Nanaimo is a beautiful city located on the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. With its stunning natural scenery and charming small-town vibe, it’s no wonder that Nanaimo has become a popular place to live, work, and visit. If you are considering remodeling your home or business in Nanaimo, there are many things to consider. In this blog post, we’ll explore 26 ideas related to interior remodeling and how they can be applied to a Nanaimo renovation project.
Choosing the right color scheme is a crucial part of any interior remodeling project. The colors you choose will set the tone for your space and can greatly impact the overall mood and feel of your home or business. In Nanaimo, you might consider incorporating coastal-inspired blues and greens into your color palette to reflect the city’s beautiful seaside setting.
Lighting is another important factor to consider when remodeling your space. In Nanaimo, you may want to take advantage of the city’s abundant natural light by adding large windows or skylights to your design. Additionally, adding a variety of light sources, such as overhead fixtures, table lamps, and accent lighting, can create a warm and inviting ambience.
Choosing the right furniture is essential to creating a functional and stylish interior. On Vancouver Island, you might consider incorporating natural materials, such as wood and wicker, into your furniture design to complement the city’s coastal setting. Additionally, choosing furniture with clean lines and a neutral color palette can create a timeless look that will stand the test of time.
Effective space planning is essential to maximizing the functionality of your interior design. Open-concept layout often let you take advantage of beautiful views of Vancouver Island having less walls and distractions in the way of the ocean and mountains. Alternatively, if you’re working with a smaller space, you might consider a multi-functional design that incorporates storage solutions and flexible furniture options. Buck Robertson Contracting being a design build team when we are able to design your space on the computer and input your furniture into the design weather it be existing already or something you are planning on buying. We can move things around easly on the computer to help you understand what that space will look and feel like.
In this video, we talk about Halo Exterra foam and why it is important in preventing thermal bridging and how it helps with permeability; and we also talk about the importance of Rainscreen and its advantages in the building envelope.
When it comes to eco-friendly materials it is important to understand where it came from, the life cycle of that material and weather or not it is a green washed material or is actually good for the well being of the planet.
With that aside choosing materials which have a low carbon footprint is always a good idea.
This is probably the fastest growing part of the building industry and knowing what is on the market is a constiant need of the contractor to do contiued education. With Buck Robertson Contracting being licensed residential builder in B.C we are expected to get 20 continuing professional development credits a year. When you with of a smart home lots of some of the best features that have came out to this point you won’t even know you have unless you have been told and explaind to you what they do and why you have them in your home. There are alot more sensors going into a home to allow for good air quality in a home or to a sensor that tells you on your phone that your hotwater tank is starting to leak while you are on vacation.
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