How to Rejuvenate Your Interior Home Design This Year With a Renovation

Listen lovelies  — if a home addition has been on your brain, your home deserves the glow-up in 2025, and this year, we can make sure it gets one. Forget just slapping on a fresh coat of paint and calling it a day.

If you really want to level up your interior home design, renovation is a power tool.  And our luxury interior design firm is here to help you do just that — and it all starts with a blueprint.

It’s all about creating a home that works impeccably for you.

The Magic Trinity of Design: Builder, Architect, and Designer (AKA Your Dream Team)

A home that actually functions well doesn’t happen by accident — it’s the love child of a builder, an architect, and a designer. The builder makes it stand; the architect makes it structured; and the designer? Well, the designer makes the interiors feel, function and LOOK fabulous – right down to the placement of the last chair, lamp and window treatment.

We also do important “client project discovery” at IDH to ensure you don’t end up with things like a new dining room is too narrow to be used the way you hoped, or an outdoor kitchen that is miles away from the indoor kitchen. (True stories here…!)

Optimizing Your Blueprint Like a Pro

Before you start your own renovation frenzy, let’s talk blueprints and the way a solid team like IDH can meaningfully impact the development of your ideal blueprint. We recently teamed up with a Florida builder to save a client some serious cash by nixing wasted square footage Every square inch matters in interior home design, and we made sure the high-traffic, high-use areas got the VIP treatment.

I was saw a big, tough-looking grown mans face crumble as he showed me around his new home addition and I pointed out that in his dream media room, the TV viewing angles were a problem and that he’d not be able to get the amount of seating into the space that he had hoped.

Too late in the game…framing and drywall were already up. (womp-womp…all those dollars out the door and he DID NOT get what he had dreamed of).

The way we look at a space through the design lens, we pick up important fine details that are not universally addressed by a builder or architect.

That’s where we come in: an important collaborative expertise to drive the gorgeous and hoped-for full interior design end result.

Don’t sleep on the small stuff — it can make or break your home’s function, and within that, its total interior room design. Due to process and timelines on the architect and builder ends, spaces are often conceptualized without a detailed attention or understanding about furniture placement which drives desired end use.

We once saved a family room from a frustrating client disaster with a 10-inch tweak. – on the BLUEPRINT.  Yes, 10 inches was all it took to go from “Not enough seating” to “Ah…perfect.”

Window placements? They’re everything when it comes to furniture layout. And let’s talk room openings — too big or too small, and you’ll be playing a game of interior home design Tetris for years.

In other instances, our team can identify a room on the blueprint where the amount of actual usable space is impeded by a door swing, a room opening, or a non-weight-bearing wall placement. All of this can be a game-changer.

None of this is a criticism of builders or architects: Those 2 talented disciplines are doing other amazing things as they focus on the issues that our team doesn’t need to focus on – (heaven bless them) – to name a few things like floor joists, steel beams, lot set backs, framing, or locating HVAC.

The Secret Sauce: Blueprint Optimization

We love providiing our blueprint optimization services, as do our clients. It’s like getting a personal trainer for your home. Even if you engage us simply to do a deep dive into the blueprint, it’s a wise investment to ensure every square inch is working for you.

What we do really is identify and correct problems and constraints before a nail hits wood. Mush easier to revise a drawn plan that  – heaven forbid – do a rip out, which is rarely done. Instead, homeowners end up living for years with a space that falls short.

Let’s Make Your Home The Place to Be

Remember: Builders think from 30,000 feet in the air down to 10,000 feet. As designers, we focus from 15,000 feet in the air down to boots on the ground —how you will LIVE and FEEL in your home is literally affected by this partnership. The magic happens at that point where the builder and design team’s focus overlaps to inform each other’s thinking.

People don’t hire our interior design firm because they want the same look they could cobble together themselves. They come to us because they want that “Wow, who did this?” kind of space.

Whether you’re revamping one room or tackling a full home makeover, smart design choices start with the blueprint and mean fewer design headaches later.

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This year, do yourself and your home a favor — go for the real glow-up that will refresh and rejuvenate your space in all the right ways and contact Impeccably Designed Homes today.