How to Decide Between a Home Addition or a Custom Home
Homeowners throughout the Ottawa area, from Kanata to Orleans and downtown to Barrhaven are looking to add more space to their homes. Some choose to build a home addition in order to achieve this goal, while others are tearing down the existing home entirely to make space for a custom home. If you are grappling […]
Should You Stay Or Relocate During a Renovation?
Some home renovations are relatively small, and it is no trouble to stay in the home during construction. Others may require that you relocate during a renovation. If you’re doing a DIY project to reface kitchen cabinets and slap on a fresh coat of paint, your home life can continue without much interruption. With a […]
Getting the Most Out of Your Basement Renovation
Can you imagine adding a gym, theatre room, guest bedroom, kids’ playroom, income suite, laundry room, man cave, wine cellar, or home bar to your house? Any of these possibilities is just a phone call to Holland Homes & Renovations away. Our basement renovation contractors can turn your formerly drab and musty basement into a […]
How to Blend a Home Addition with the Original Home
Your Ottawa home addition has a lot of moving parts to consider, not the least of which is making sure the new space blends with the existing home in a logical way that is also aesthetically pleasing. Follow these recommendations and your home addition will turn heads in all the right ways. Complementary Roof Line […]
The Pros and Cons of Building Up or Building Out
When you’re planning a home addition in Ottawa, you have two main options: building up or building out (or a combination of the two). Home additions that are built out expand the ground-floor footprint of the home, usually off the back or side. Building up involves adding a second storey above a garage or sunroom, […]
5 Risks of a DIY Basement Renovation
If you consider yourself to be the handy type, you might be thinking about turning your unfinished basement around with a DIY basement renovation. How hard could it be? Slap up some drywall, lay down some flooring, done. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you could end up wasting a lot of time and […]
