Making Your Starter Home Feel Big

Maximizing Your Alpharetta Home with Custom Closet Designs

Many people view starter homes as the first stepping stone in their homeownership journey. Starter homes are typically smaller, more affordable, and not generally sized for families with multiple kids. This makes them ideal for young couples and families that are new to the housing market. These homes are often built with the intention of being sold a few years down the road, meaning that adding value is ideal to make the most of your investment. If your family is feeling cramped in a starter home and want to add value to the property, extra storage may be your solution. A great way to create extra storage in your Alpharetta property is by installing custom closet designs.

A starter home can give you everything you’ve ever dreamed of—a perfect kitchen, an idyllic bedroom, and a yard that’s easy to take care of. However, they may leave you wanting more square footage. By being thoughtful and creative, you can maximize the comfort and style of your smaller home. Implementing permanent storage solutions can help to increase your starter home’s value and give you your ideal living space.

Functional Furniture and Accentuating Your Space

Functional Furniture

Despite limited space, creating a home that can accompany guests may be easier than it seems. Most of us can relate to nights at relatives’ houses where we were the king of the pull-out mattress for the night. Pull-out couches are rare much more rare today, but couches that double as beds are not! Many manufacturers have created couches that double as beds, the back folds down to create a full-size, comfortable mattress.

Additionally, many couches, ottomans, coffee tables, and more come with hidden storage options. These days, it’s easy to find an ottoman that has a removable top that can hold blankets, games, and whatever else you may need space for.

Accentuating With Color

We all know that a splash of color can bring a room to life, however, what you may not know is that color can actually make a small space feel big and spacious or small and cramped. If you’re looking to make your space feel more open and breathable, try working with colors and accent pieces. A good rule of thumb for working with colors is as follows: 

“Using a bold color for the wall behind the sofa will separate the living room from the rest of the house and give the illusion of more space. Any solid color such as blacks, blues, oranges and reds will help make your living room appear larger.”
— Geraldine Orentas & Lexie Pelchen (Forbes)

Implementing Custom Closet Designs

When it comes to optimizing your home’s space and adding to the value of your home, implementing strong organizational systems throughout your home is critical. The most important places to implement organizational systems and custom builds include the kitchen, bathrooms, and bedroom closets. Custom storage and closet designs throughout a home are one of the first upgrades a homeowner should consider to better their lives and increase their home’s value.

These organizational systems and custom closet designs may include:

• Cohesive shelving in kitchen and bathroom cabinets
• Custom closet designs like well built-out closets with drawers, shelving, and plenty of room to hang your clothes
• Integrating track systems into existing closets and cabinetry
• Adding built-in, hidden compartments throughout your home

There are many DIY add-ons that can be ideal for organizing your homes such as implementing baskets and small pre-built organization systems. However, building out your home to provide a more functional space may be easier said than done. Implementing shelving, compartments, track systems, and more may not be a job for you alone. Installing storage systems with an untrained eye could lead to poorly functioning track systems, uneven shelving, and a general lack of cohesion.

Hiring a professional closet design company—like Quality Closet Connection, serving the Alpharetta area—can be crucial when creating space. Professionals allow for your home to be properly equipped with custom-designed organization systems. With Quality Closet Connection, you can be sure that you’re getting a well-built, custom system that works for you and your home.

Optimizing Your Starter Home Garage

Garages tend to be one of, if not the, largest rooms in the home. At the same time, it is often one of the most cluttered and crammed-full areas. It’s important to start fresh if you’ve been living there for a while or if you heavily relate to the previous sentence by spending a full day sorting through and organizing it. Pull everything out and sort things into keep, sell or donate, and throw out piles.

Additionally, you can place frequently used items such as bikes towards the front of the garage and put things like leaf blowers and weed-eaters up and out of the way towards the back.

While shelves are obviously ideal for maximum storage capacity, some garages just don’t have the square footage necessary. Securing slotted wall panels or pegboards to the walls allows for open and optimized storage. They allow you to hand anything and everything from hoses to extension cords to hanging baskets for keeping smaller items in.

Custom Closet Designs in the Alpharetta Area

Contact Quality Closet Connection

Quality Closet Connection has been serving the Atlanta area, including Alpharetta, with our custom closet design work for years. We offer our expert crafter quality custom closet designs all at a low price with no hidden fees. We finish most jobs in one day—giving you the organizational space you desire in no time at all!

No hassle. All satisfaction.

Contact us today at 770-710-6008 or by sending us an email at walter@qualityclosetconnection.com.