Remodeling Around The Holidays: Avoid Setting Your Remodel Schedule Close to Christmas

Remodeling around the holidays can be a risky endeavor when there's always a chance a room won't be ready in time for holiday entertaining. The last thing you ever want is to have your kitchen, family room, or bathroom torn up while having family and guests over. But that could easily happen if you don't leave the proper amount of time needed to get the job done.
Take a look at some scenarios where a remodel requiring a set number of weeks could end up colliding with arriving guests and Christmas Day.
Remodeling the Kitchen with New Cabinetry
Adding new cabinetry to a kitchen is a frequent wish by many to give new style to a home for holiday entertaining. Building and installing custom cabinets, however, requires a set number of weeks that should never be cut close to Christmastime. When a time estimate is given, it's best to think of the contractor's schedule and not expect the project to be done right on Christmas Eve or Day in the fourth week.
When you go that close to a deadline, you risk having your kitchen torn up on the day your family and friends arrive for the holidays. If you want cabinets done by Christmas, your better bet is to start in November or waiting until the new year.
A New Bathroom Vanity
The same thing can happen when designing a new vanity for a bathroom. While it can bring a real advantage to a bathroom in custom design and storage space, cutting the remodel too close to Christmas can bring worse problems than the kitchen. Even if the kitchen might be the most visited part of your home, the bathroom would have to be second if not tied.
You need to allow plenty of time to get your bathroom vanity done or face a bathroom torn up when family and guests arrive. Considering you have to use that bathroom to get ready each morning, you don't want it out of commission on Christmas Eve or Day.
Holiday Entertaining While the Remodel Takes Place
Another common occurrence is starting a four-week remodel, then throwing a large party one day after the work begins. Unless your guests are understanding about seeing things torn up in one part of your house, you don't want to be doing holiday parties in the middle of a remodel. This could be especially bad if you're in the middle of having shelves built for a family room or a new fireplace mantle. These are the rooms where you'll likely be spending the most quality time after dinner.
Here at Edgewood Cabinetry, we see the above scenarios all the time around the holidays. We recommend you allow some breathing room on the scheduling so you can enjoy your remodel at least a week or two before Christmas.
At this point, it's best you wait and contact us in the new year to get your new remodel done. Nonetheless, we'll make sure that it's the best decision you ever made for starting the new year off right.