If you want to get the attention of home builders and remodelers in your area - and around the nation - Houzz is undoubtedly a platform to tackle. With more than 25 million users per month, and housing more than five million photos of professionally designed houses and kitchens, it is the go-to website for anyone looking for home design inspiration, vendors and local contractors.
Planning to remodel or renovate your kitchen or bath? One of the first steps in the process is to find your style so you can select the furnishings and finishes that will make the kitchen your own. To do this, we always recommend browsing other kitchen designs to see what images, colors and furnishings make your heart go pitter-patter.
Traditional or contemporary? Are you stuck on which way you want to go with your kitchen design? Before you flip that coin, you need to take a look at some transitional kitchens that blend the best of both design worlds.
What's your style? Not 100% sure yet? Once you begin browsing design websites and professional full-service design firm portfolios it can be difficult to know. Perhaps you used to think you were traditionalist, but saw a stunning modern kitchen that made you second-guess yourself.
There are many ways to approach a kitchen design. From DIY projects that you spread out over time to the full-service option where the designer-builder yields from the same firm in order to create an all-encompassing kitchen and bath design and build out and the myriad of options in between, it can be difficult to decide which option is the best for your Chicago home.
When it comes to selecting Chicago custom cabinets for a kitchen remodel, it boils down to three options: framed, frameless and inset. The first two styles were covered in previous blogs. You can read them by clicking Framed Cabinet Design or Frameless Cabinet Design.
In this post, however, we'll cover the popular comeback of inset cabinet designs, which actually originated during the Georgian and Victorian eras (18th and 19th centuries).
Framed cabinets were the American standard until just about a decade ago or so. Then, the European-inspired frameless cabinet option hit the market and now everybody wants to know whether framed or frameless cabinets are "better".
Well, let us back up a bit; it's a rare modernist who will choose framed cabinetry, but transitionalist and traditionalists have their decision making work cut out for them.
Until the last decade or so, Chicago custom cabinets were all built using cabinet frames. A framed cabinet is exactly that; when you open the cabinet door, you see rails and stiles forming a 1-1/2 inch face frame. It looks just like a picture frame. These frames were used to bolster the strength of the cabinet body and create a sturdy foundation upon which we attached the cabinet doors.
It's a brand new year and that means it's time for a trend update. Here are some of the Chicago kitchen design trends we're noticing at trade shows and from our favorite vendors and designers.
Finding the right Chicago kitchen and bath designer requires more than just a Google search. Word of mouth from friends or relatives is great, but everybody's different so a designer they love may not be the best fit for you, depending on your style preferences and personality.
