Remodeling your Nashville home for multi-purpose flex space

To get the most out of your home, it simply must evolve if it is to keep handling your family’s continually changing needs. For this reason, we consider flex space to be essential for every active home.

What is flex space?

flex space remodel nashvilleFlex space (shortened from flexible space)is a fairly new buzzword in Nashville home remodeling. Flex space is an area of your home, small or large, which can serve two or more different purposes, needs, and activities that take place in the home. (These days, it seems like nearly EVERY activity is in the home!) Flex space can be a small nook somewhere in your house, or a large room could be dedicated to flex space. In other words, flex space is exactly what it sounds like: Flex space consists of one or more areas in your house that can be used for whatever variable purpose(s) you want or need. The specifics of your flex space can (and should) evolve in tandem with your needs over time.

Now more than ever, we need areas in our homes that can accommodate the divergent needs of every member of the household. Consider the needs of the modern household in the COVID-19 era:

  • We are working at home.
  • We are having Zoom cocktail hours and all manner of Zoom meetings at home.
  • Our kids are schooling at home.
  • We are working out and getting fit at home.
  • Many of us still perform most or all of our employment and self-employment work at home.
  • We are quarantining at home.
  • We are taking and teaching online classes at home.
  • We practice and play musical instruments at home.
  • We engage in (insert your hobbies here) at home.

flex space remodel nashvilleAnd, unfortunately, this is going to be the case going forward – even though we may be freed from our homes more as summer approaches and more people are vaccinated. (That time cannot arrive quickly enough.)

Related: Effects of pandemic on Nashville remodeling – Broderick Builders

With flex space, you are limited only by your imagination – and perhaps the imagination of your home remodeling firm (we hope you choose us to help you)!

Schedule a free consultation with Broderick Builders today at 615.385.3210 or use our quick and easy contact form. That’s what we’re here for – to discuss designing and building the perfect flex space for your particular needs and circumstances – or whatever else you may need in terms of remodeling.

Get more for your money: Common two-for-one uses

Flex space gives you more for the money, because the remodeled area(s) can serve multiple needs. This allows you to make the very most of the square footage available in your home. Here are a few examples of two-for-one possibilities for your flex space:

Laundry room + mud room

Typically attached to the garage, mud rooms are incredibly convenient for keeping the other pars of your home clean. It makes complete sense to pair a mud room with a laundry room; this will allow the homeowner to throw dirt-covered clothes straight into the washing machine. Your home will be cleaner and require less straightening and cleaning with your new laundry room + mud room. This flex space would probably include a large utility sink, adequate space for cleaning up a dirty dog or even bathing the dog, sufficient room for dropping off wet or dirty clothes, and leaving wet athletic/ sports equipment to dry.

Related: Mud rooms and other Nashville home addition trends – Broderick Builders

Media room + play room

With ample built-in cabinetry and other storage, a rec room or finished basement can pull double duty as a playroom during the day and a home theater in the evening after dinner. Cupboards, drawers, and shelving provide plenty of space for the kids’ toys to be put away, thus freeing up some room for watching your favorite movies and series, or even for family game night.

Nursery + playroom

What starts out as the nursery won’t need to stay a nursery for very long! The nursery may be a good fit to be transformed into a playroom when the crib is no longer needed.

Home office + guest bedroom

Improve home security as part of your next Nashville remodel

Did you know that most residential entrance doors can be kicked in without too much effort? If your home still has standard front and back doors, let us help you improve your security.

Whether you’re putting in a new mudroom, building a master suite, remodeling the attic, or renovating the entire house, there’s no better time to improve the security of your home. As a long-dedicated, deeply experienced Nashville remodeling contractor, we know the local building codes and the home security products and features that really work.

Now is the time! Let Broderick Builders help you protect your loved ones and your property by making affordable home security improvements along with any other remodeling. [ Contact form ]

Your home office or library can easily serve as a guest bedroom when you have friends or relatives in town. A day bed, Murphy bed, sofa bed or futon provides guest sleeping quarters, but folds away to conceal the room’s dual purpose when you have no one visiting.

Flex space would also be great for:

  • Music room
  • Home recording studio
  • Home video studio/Zoom room
  • Photography studio
  • Darkroom
  • Dressing room
  • Sewing, dressmaking area
  • Meditation room
  • Reading room
  • Seasonal storage areas
  • Bar/cocktail area
  • Art gallery
  • Reading room
  • Arts & crafts room
  • Coffee room
  • Library

Add a room

If the current design and layout of your home lacks versatile, appropriate flexible space, you might think about adding a room. We regularly create and build room additions and all sorts of home additions for our Middle Tennessee clients.

Related: Nashville home additions by Broderick Builders

If you do decide to add a room, you are now (and may have already been) sufficiently in-the-know to ensure your new home addition is flexible space; that way, you’ll be free to adapt your new surroundings to perfectly fit the various needs you have for that extra space.

When adding on to your Nashville home, please keep the following in mind:
flex space remodel nashville

  • Consider including multiple electrical, plumbing, and wireless needs in the space.
  • Opt for neutral materials that will coordinate well with a range of furnishings, décor, styles, and accents as times change.
  • Review your home security setup. Home security can be an easy thing to postpone, and many folks seem to just forget about it. We strongly recommend taking a close look at your home security in tandem with any remodeling you may do or consider doing. It’s easier and often less expensive to do more remodeling once, rather than break up multiple remodeling jobs into separate pieces.
  • Consider adding built-in storage and stow-away furnishings and similar elements. For example, consider anything like closets, desks, shelving, futons, Murphy beds, etc. that can be tucked out of sight when not in use.

Related: Remodeling for home security in Nashville – Broderick Builders

What’s the only constant, dear reader? Change, of course! Shouldn’t your home be set up to easily allow major and minor changes, so that your house changes right along with you when wanted or needed? There are practically limitless approaches one could take in order to remodel a nook, a room, or anything in-between into flex space helps you love your home more than ever.

No limits!

Again, there are no limits for creating and designing shared flex space in your own home – especially when you let Broderick Builders help you build it! If you’d like to talk to Nashville’s premier remodeling firm about any projects you have in mind, please do not hesitate to call us at 615.385.3210, or use the quick and easy contact form below.

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