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The Kitchen, the heart of your home

Families spend a large amount of their time together in the kitchen and over the past 20 years we have begun to integrate the kitchen with the living spaces around it. If you have an older home, it's typically not enough to just replace the kitchen cabinets but rather expand the kitchen. Many homes built prior to 1990 (and even a few newer ones) have chopped up floor plans with seperate rooms for the dining room, living room, kitchen and family room. The common complaint we hear is that none of those small rooms are very useful, especially while trying to entertain your guests. Through the use of modern structural beams we are typically able to remove walls and bring all those spaces together as one large space. The result can be rather dramatic if you've lived with those little rooms for many years.
So, if you dream of having a huge entertaining space to share with family and friends please give us a call and let us show you, through 3-d design, what your new space will look like.

Beach Cottage Kitchen This Terrace Park couple enjoys the seaside cottage look and that was the inspiration for their kitchen remodel. These homeowners have a multi-stage plan to improve and expand their home and the kitchen was the first major step to make it more functional while we get to work on the next major stages. The design video shows the kitchen as well as the plan for a future great room that will become an integral part of their kitchen and dining area. For those of you interested in the "details" there is also a video of demo and construction. We were able to use the existing Woodmode cabinets and mixed them with custom, site-built cabinetry that really provides some contrast and accomplished the "beach cottage" look that the owner is going for. You might be surprised to find out that custom built cabinetry (painted) doesn't cost much different than off-the-shelf components. The advantage to site-built custom cabinets for this kitchen was that we were able to tailor the cabinets to the exacting space requirements of this efficient gourmet kitchen.
Design	Construction	The Final Product
Design is essential to a quality project. Getting it all on "paper" before we start ensures that your project flows smoothly and that the final result looks like the project that you imagined.	This video is a composite of daily progress videos and most were taken from a cameraphone, so don't expect any stunning camerawork. It does show you just how involved the project is even though it is a fairly small kitchen.	The final pictures speak for themselves. We look forward to Stage 2 of the project, the Great Room.

Some Photos of another project...

These photos are from an extensive kitchen remodel that removed several walls in order to combine the living room, dining and kitchen into one space.

Kitchen Design Ideas

You just have to love the internet. I hear from some contractors that they hate the internet because homeowners come to them with all these "crazy ideas" they saw on the internet. We actually LIKE you to come to us with those ideas. The more informed you are before you contact us then the better it will be for both parties.

Anyway, we've put a few links below for some wonderful kitchen design ideas from Youtube videos. They are just to help you get started and help you get some ideas. There is also a link for the FREE online design software. This really is an amazing tool for both homeowner and even the contractor. We use a program that allows us more design ideas and gives better views but you can't beat HomeStyler from AutoDesk because it is very easy to use and FREE!


Get Kitchen Design Ideas from Nadia Geller and HomeStyler	Megan Carter from Ask the Decorator researches ideas for Kitchen Lighting

Why would a Design Build Firm point you towards a FREE design program? Our purpose is to empower you and to help you save a little money in design costs. While this program is very handy to get started you may find you need help also so don't be afraid to seek out professional design help. Please give us some feedback on what you think of this software. I bellieve some people catch right onto it but others may have some difficulty.

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