Our Home Remodeling Services in Alhambra

Choosing to partner with Queen Remodeling means one company will manage your home remodel in its entirety for your convenience and ensuring quality control.

So whether you are planning to make minor improvements to your home or want to make significant home modifications to your overall floor plan, here are our detailed Alhambra home remodel services:

  1. Floor Plan Improvements – we can change the layout of your home as a whole and every separate room to use space more efficiently. This will involve adding and removing walls, adding and removing living spaces, restructuring doorways, relocating stairways, and more.
  2. General Renovation of Home Features – this often involves interior and exterior modification projects, like replacing old flooring, freshening the paint, concrete, or masonry works.
  3. Renovation of Utility Systems – Because of these systems’ usefulness in keeping your home functional, comfortable, and safe, we will help you avoid small leakage and short circuits that could ruin your home’s interior and even the whole house structure.
  4. Exterior and interior structural re-engineering (including architectural modifications) and reconstruction of columns and beams with load-bearing considerations.
  5. Repositioning and installation of new doors, windows, and skylights.
  6. Modifying the layout of electrical, plumbing, and cable utilities during the structural floor plan changes.

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Home Renovations That Add the Most Value

Ultimately, you will want to make the correct home improvements to add value to your home. This means we will help you evaluate your Alhambra home remodel plan and recommend the right solutions, such as:

  1. Creating Functional Spaces – our design team will help you turn underused and unused spaces in your home into functional specialty spaces (such as home office and mudroom) that improve your life and appeal to the Alhambra real estate market.
  2. Upgrading the Flooring – will see you boost your home value, especially after installing good hardwood floors.
  3. New Hardware – is another valued home improvement, and you will need to switch out your current fittings and accessories for more modern options.
  4. Embracing Universal Design Principle (Aging-In-Place) – to create space and make your home accessible to people of all ages, sizes, and physical abilities. We will rework your spaces by widening doorways, including stepless entrances, and installing mobility-aiding features.
  5. Considering Local Alhambra Trends – to identify the right features you could add to your home, such as smart home features and energy-efficient appliances, which command our local Alhambra real estate market.
  6. Quality Walls and Ceilings – will help improve your home’s overall appeal and value in the current market. Good walls and ceilings are the backbone of your interior space, and we take good care of that with the right materials and quality finishes.
  7. Updating Your Light Fixtures – is one of our most straightforward home renovation solutions that will add value to your home in Alhambra. We recommend modern styles of exterior and interior light fixtures that will suit your home.
  8. Window Replacement – we recommend larger windows that can allow enough natural lighting and still give your home that open-plan feel.
  9. Other ideas include: amplifying your outdoor living space, updating your home’s HVAC, manufactured stone veneer, siding replacement, and more.

Split Level Remodel in Alhambra (Bi, Tri, and Quad Level Homes)

Our split-level modernization projects mostly included additions and exterior “curb appeal” upgrades. The most common is using the additions to open up the floor plan, basically, a level above the one-story portion, to create larger family room spaces.

In most cases, our split-level home remodel in Alhambra involves:

  1. Knocking down walls with load-bearing considerations to give your home an open floor plan and connect different rooms.
  2. Modifying doorways/entryways also to improve the connection between rooms.
  3. Replacing and adding equally larger windows, with visual symmetry in mind, to brighten up your spaces.
  4. Updating the interior flooring to modernize your home to comply with universal design.
  5. Embracing the Universal Design with ADA compliance to accommodate the elderly and handicapped.

 Alhambra Home Remodel Financing Options

Another crucial step for your home improvement is getting the right financing option that works for you, such as home equity funding and non-equity options. Some of the options include:

Using Equity Funding

You can borrow this loan against your home equity by either replacing your current mortgage or getting a second home loan and using the funds to facilitate your home remodel.

  1. Home Equity Lines of Credits (HELOC) allows you to borrow exactly what you need to a limit, which works like a credit card.
  2. Home Equity Loans come as a single lump-sum loan, up to 85% of your home value, with a fixed interest rate.

 Cash-Out Refinance

This option gives you the freedom to replace your current mortgage with a new home loan, giving you the advantage of lowering interest rates while using your home’s equity.

Personal Loans

You could opt for unsecured personal loans to help you finance your project quickly without wasting time doing a lot of paperwork.

Another option is using your credit card and cash to finance your project.

Alternatives Beyond Home Equity and Personal Loans

Other programs that would serve you well to get your home improvement financing, include:

  1. Title 1 Loan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to finance property improvements up-to $25,000.
  2. 203(k) Loan sponsored by the Federal Housing Administration to finance your home repair and upgrades with a single loan
  3. Home Construction Loan paid directly to the contractor to cover your home remodel project.
  4. Renovation Loan is awarded based on the future value of your home, especially after the remodel project.

 Home Remodel Grants for Alhambra Homeowners.

There are several government-sponsored programs that could help you finance your project if you qualify for the city of Alhambra home remodel grants (for seniors and other persons).

Eligibility is determined if you own and occupy the property, meet the income limitations, cannot get reasonable credit from other sources, and should be at least 62 years old.

The available Alhambra home remodel grants include:

  1. The Home Investment Partnerships Program – this program helps state and local governments create affordable housing options.
  2. Section 504 Home Repair Program – this program helps low-income and elderly homeowners cover the cost of repairing or modernizing their single-family homes.
  3. Native American Housing Improvement Program – this program offers up to $60,000 for repairs or renovations to help improve properties and bring them up to code.
  4. Area Agency On Aging – this program administered through the states helps senior citizens improve their properties to make them more livable for the elderly.
  5. VA Specially Adapted Housing Grant – this program funds changes to a home to make them habitable for veterans with service-related disabilities.
  6. Temporary Residence Adaptation Grant – This program helps cover the cost of renovations for family members who are currently housing a veteran or service member
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Are Alhambra Home Improvements Tax Deductible?

The short answer is that some home improvements are eligible for tax deductions, but not all. As you plan your home remodel in Alhambra, we will inform you of the modifications that are tax deductible.

For starters, it will depend on whether it falls under the “capital improvements” or “repair” categories, where capital investments qualify for tax credits. They include:

  1. Energy-Efficient Renovations Home Improvements for Medical Care
  2. Home Office Improvements  
  3. Rental Property Renovations 
  4. Home Improvements for Resale Value

Our Home Remodel Order of Work

For your Alhambra home remodel project, we work to have you involved through the process and ensure your questions on design and quality are perfectly addressed.

Getting Started – with the initial consultation, our project manager will discuss your goals, design ideas, and how Queen Remodeling can help you.

Design Concepts Meeting – we will review and discuss the design ideas created from our space assessment, include new recommendations and select the final design.

Finalizing Plans and Permits – at this point we obtain city permits and get the right materials needed for the remodel, besides bringing in the right team.

Construction – the work begins, and we meet weekly to discuss the progress until the project is complete. We will schedule a final inspection with the city officials to ensure everything conforms to their regulations.

FAQs

Absolutely not; but it helps if you do. Our in-home design consultation is meant to help generate ideas or work through the ones you already have. We have the right Alhambra home remodel team that will make your design dreams come true.

The time to complete a project depends entirely on its size and scope. Of course, your complete satisfaction is our goal, so we will finish every project as quickly as we can, without sacrificing quality. Once we commit to a timeline, we make every effort to meet all deadlines.

Our design style is your design style. We’ll work collaboratively with you to make your vision a reality, regardless of the style.

Not necessarily. We can find ways to accommodate you depending on the scope of the project, especially by using other spaces that are not being worked on.

However, if the project is an extensive one, you may find it more practical to move out temporarily. For example, in a full house renovation project, you may prefer to relocate temporarily. We will discuss this case during our initial consultation and sort things out.

We lay down clean tarps whenever needed, and move your basic furniture, don’t forget that you need to move all your fragile items before the project starts. We also clean the workspace and traffic areas daily and perform a thorough professional cleaning on the final day.

There are multiple options that flooring will fit your lifestyle. We have vast experience with all types of flooring and able to recommend exactly what fits your specific needs—whether it be style, kids, pets, or more.

We often use different types threshold covers when there are height changes in the flooring. Consult with us to learn about more decorative transition that can be designed depending on your specific type of flooring.

Contact the program in charge of the award to apply for a home renovation grant. Typically, you will be required to fill out an application. The application will inform the program if you fulfill the grant’s eligibility requirements. It will most likely inquire about your house, possessions, and income. You may also be required to supply supporting paperwork.

Permits are only required if you are making changes to the structural makeup of your home during the remodel. For example, if you are completely changing the layout, or knocking down a wall to extend it, then you will need a permit. We pull all permits for you with the Building Division, when required.

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Queen Remodeling recently completed a small kitchen remodel at my home. We had 3 companies come out to give me estimates. Johnny from Queen Remodeling came out, he explained every aspect and understood our requirements. Throughout the estimate process and the entire project, Johnny was highly responsive to each message and question.

 

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