An ongoing survey conducted by CNW Research has found that the average length of a kitchen remodel, from design concept to final completion, is two years with the most extreme case taking six (www.nkba.org). Successfully creating the perfect kitchen takes time, patience and, as I wrote about in the...

GREEN. It is the new buzz word in just about every part of our lives from organic cotton tee-shirts to kitchen countertops. Reduce, reuse,recycle are the driving forces behind living sustainably. Nowhere else is this important than horizontal and vertical surfaces in the home industry. Manufacturers...

I have had tile on the brain so I decided to make this the first of a two part “tile series”. In the last week I have met with my regular tile manufacturers as well as showrooms who have showed me new tile products, color ways and material ideas. The main reason for all this information is to help...

I was recently asked by a new tile showroom in Orange County to create a vignette design using tile. Immediately the ideas began to churn in my mind and the imagination began to run wild. Will I use all Green and sustainable material? Should I work with all glass mosaics? What size tile should use?...

As I walked through a small, 1900 Edwardian apartment, one of nine I was recently asked to remodel/renovate, I could not help noticing the detail in the floor. Light stained, four inch wide hard pine planks flow throughout the space with a simple detail of a half inch wide strip of dark stained oak,...

Everyone at some point or another comes across the dilemma of how to emphasize or de-emphasize architecture of a room. For instance, Victorian homes are known for their high ceilings but narrow room widths whereas Craftsman homes are known for their low ceilings and larger expanses of wall to wall stretches....

GLASS. In science, it is a solid with no long range order of its physical atoms including plastics, resins or other silica-free materials. In more everyday terms, it refers to a hard, brittle transparent material. The Latin-term glesum itself developed in the late Holy Roman Empire glassmaking center...