Interested in seeing what the neighbors are up to in their kitchens? The recent results from the "2016 Kitchen Design Forecast," issued by Sub-Zero and Wolf and published in the Kitchen & Bath Design Survey, provides us with an insider's view into Chicago kitchen design trends so you can do just that.
Chicago kitchen and bath remodeling requires a fine attention to balance; you have to prioritize function so the kitchen is efficient, but you also want to honor form so it looks fantastic when it's just standing there. You want to add just the right amount of contemporary conveniences and trends, without being so trendy that you wind up with a kitchen full of kitsch that you wind up replacing or redecorating again in a handful of years.
Kitchen faucets have come a long way in the past several decades; while most homeowners prefer high-arched kitchen faucets that make it easy to wash big soup pots or buckets, there are a wide range of options from industrial and standard options, to touchless faucets and more.
Planning a Chicago kitchen remodel is an exciting process. You explore the broad spectrum of possibilities, all designed to make your kitchen attractive and functional. That functional piece of the design puzzle, however, isn't always quite as glamorous as the attractive piece.
Ready to have some fun? Let's sit down and balance the budget.
You may have noticed that convection ovens, once considered a more superfluous kitchen appliance, are now a normalized appliance option.
Remember when an oven was just an oven? Not so anymore. Today's homeowners have a range of oven-like appliances to choose from, ranging from standard options to convection ovens, steam ovens, warming drawers, microwave drawers, etc.
The difference in price between Chicago quality custom cabinets and the beautiful but pre-fab displays you see at your big box store are significant. To be precise, custom cabinets can cost as much as 30% more than their stock cabinet counterparts, and that excludes super-custom accents, exotic wood options, etc.
If you aren't careful, your kitchen or bath remodel can be infinitely more complicated than it needs to be. You can wind up fielding calls from several entities: designer, architect, contractor, vendors, etc.
Painted or stained? Stained or painted? Around and around clients go, determining which decision is the right one for their Chicago custom kitchen cabinets.
