With all the chatter about new construction and eager buyers battling for a limited housing supply, it’s easy to overlook the uptick in remodeling activity. Believe it or not, not everyone is looking to move. When it comes to making upgrades, nothing can refresh a home like a new kitchen or bath. (Or both!) Over [...]

The National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) recently unveiled the top six overall kitchen design in 2013 based on its 2013 NKBA Design Trends Survey, which included responses from more than 300 member designers. Each year, the survey polls members on the materials, product types and style they used during the final three months of the [...]

Architects are cooking up new business in the kitchen, according to Matthew Strozier at the Wall Street Journal. Citing a recent survey from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Strozier writes that as kitchen areas are growing and becoming more wide open in nature, architects are seeing steady work from homeowners interested in a kitchen [...]

On Friday, we featured the top five kitchen trends from the National Kitchen & Bath Association’s (NKBA) recently released annual Design Trends Survey, which seeks to identify the materials, product types and styles gaining the most traction in kitchen and bathroom design. A total of 350 NKBA members throughout the United State and Canada participated in the [...]

A few weeks back, the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) released results from its annual Design Trends Survey, which seeks to identify the materials, product types and styles gaining the most traction in kitchen and bathroom design. A total of 350 NKBA members throughout the United State and Canada participated in the survey. Today, [...]

The American Institute of Architects recently released results from the Home Design Trends Survey for the fourth quarter of 2010, finding consumers are demanding larger kitchens and more accessible bathrooms. Kitchen size had been trending downward the past few years, but Q4 marked a turnaround. Kermit Baker, AIA’s chief economist, writes the larger kitchen is [...]

For our latest BuildChat, we caught up with residential designer Kelly Morisseau, CMKBD, CID, who resides in Northern California and maintains an excellent home remodeling blog, Kelly’s Kitchen Sync. We discussed trends in the kitchen and bathroom. We also found out the key to an effective designer-contractor relationship. Which kitchen design trend are you most [...]

Today’s article is a guest post from Susan Serra, a certified kitchen designer and contributor to an astonishing number of publications and websites. She’s also a certified aging-in-place specialist. Learn more about her work, follow her blog, be a Facebook fan or follow her on Twitter. Having been a kitchen designer for many years — working [...]