Refresh Renovations® is here to help
Tempting as it is to roll your sleeves up and take a sledge hammer to those old bathroom tiles, if you don’t have a detailed plan, some serious skills and a lot of free time, your DIY bathroom renovation could well end up with you crying in front of a wonky new mirror.
Even finding, hiring and wrangling decent independent tradies during Queenstown’s construction boom can be a headache, with no guarantee you’ll be able to communicate your vision for your single-room or complete home renovation, or that they’ll be able to deliver a quality finish within budget.
Refresh Renovations® in Queenstown-Lakes and Central Otago is here to help.
“We’re really about investing time into the planning process, ensuring our customers have a great design and a really well-thought out approach to the renovation as a whole,” Renovation Consultant Kathleen Magon says.
“Quite often rookie renovators, (this includes myself in the past), get really excited by an idea and jump right in. But when you’re learning along the way, they can be expensive lessons. Even for a single-room renovation, a kitchen or bathroom for example, they can be potentially the most valuable rooms in your house, so you want to do justice to those spaces. If your home is worth $2 million, the renovation should be reflective of the overall value. It should also be functional, which, combined with the aesthetics, increases the value and enjoyment of living there.”
Before a hammer is even picked up, Refresh Renovations® deliver customers a 360° computer-generated walk-through of the renovated space, so they can see how everything looks together.
“We sit down with customers and talk through their initial ideas, translating that into a concept and helping with selections. Once we’ve got a concept design, we can give them an indicative cost, let them know roughly how long it will take, so they can plan around how long their kitchen will be out of action. Then we create a photo-realistic 3D render of the space for a virtual tour. It’s such an incredible tool that really gives homeowners the confidence they’re making the right decision for their family and their home. We want our customers to have as much information as possible, so they can make informed decisions.”
Refresh Renovations® offer a complete design-to-build service, from single-room renovations to full home renovations, both interior and exterior, including landscaping. They can improve insulation, upgrade glazing, change floor plans to improve functionality, reclad exteriors, and completely refresh kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, lounges and everything else. They can also manage the council resource consent process if required. Customers don’t need to have any involvement at all, which is helpful for people with investment properties who live elsewhere.
The company has preferred relationships with a whole range of local trades and is the main liaison to them, helping translate homeowners’ wishes into tradie talk, ensuring they get what they actually want.
“We’ve got really good relationships with key trades, who are used to working with us and understand what our expectations are. And, most importantly, they stand behind the quality of their work, so we know our customers will get the outcome they’re really happy with and they will love spending time in their new space.
“Overall, we’re here to guide people through the renovation journey and mitigate the various pitfalls along the way. Building can be disruptive and stressful so we here to help make the process as seamless as possible, with a wonderful quality build as the end result.”
For more information call 0800 758 012 or visit www.refreshrenovations.co.nz/locations/queenstown-wanaka
