Best of 2010's Kitchen Trends

Kitchen and bath design has come a long way since the multicolored cabinets or the checkered vinyl floors of the 60’s. This past decade has brought some exciting new trends to interior home design. In honor of the new year we have decided to highlight the best of kitchen and bath trends that the 2010s had to offer.  

Many times, people spend so much focus and effort on their kitchen or bath remodel, they neglect to think through what would be best in their laundry room and make that part of their improvement project. The laundry room is frequently the “afterthought”, even though we use them almost every day.

A Bathroom Remodel many times turns out to be more involved than people expect, especially if they’ve never done one before. With today’s technology homeowners can learn a ton about the process before it begins with what they can learn on the Internet.

If your considering a two-toned kitchen consider the following

It’s something we see more and more often; adding more color to your kitchen by doing a 2-toned finish. If you’re thinking about doing a two-toned kitchen, here are some ways you might want to consider doing it.

Help increase your happiness and sanity by using these pantry organization techniques. 

Everyone agrees, disorganization can make life more hectic and stressful. The opposite is also true; an organized life can bring more happiness, patience and fulfillment.

Ventilation is a commonly underestimated aspect of kitchens, yet it is one of the most important. A kitchen is an investment, and like other investments you want to protect it from deteriorating or devaluing.

There are 4 things that are the most requested when designing a new kitchen, and they are also the 4 most common things homeowners REGRET not doing if they didn’t. If they exclude these 4 things, they end up looking for after-market solutions to fill the gap they feel in their kitchen since they didn’t include these items initially. That’s because once they start using their kitchen they realize how much they really needed them. We call them the “no brainers” because their value to your kitchen is so obvious.

Many people are good at the “immediate” care of their painted kitchen cabinets, like when cooking causes splattering of spaghetti sauce all over them. But many neglect the “maintenance” part of caring for their cabinets that cause them to look more dirty over time.

One thing is for sure, today you have MANY more color choices in your kitchen than historical kitchen options. In previous years stain was the main option. In recent years paint colors have opened up many new horizons when choosing your colors in a kitchen remodel.

It’s no secret that a kitchen remodel is not something that you do in one day.  It can also be inconvenient.  Unless you have a second kitchen in the home some people opt for moving out or staying somewhere else while the remodel is going on.  While it seems like an easy solution, it is also an expensive one and can add unnecessary cost to your remodel that could be spent on upgrades or other items you really want.