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NKBA Chooses Winning Bath Designs for 2018

Big style for the smallest room
The National Kitchen + Bath Asso­ciation (NKBA) has awarded 27 outstanding professional designers in its 2018 Design Competition. As the NKBA notes, the winning designs offer homeowners plenty of remodeling …

NKBA Chooses Winning Kitchen Designs for 2018

Eye-Catching Aesthetics Combine With Functionality To Meet Clients’ Needs
The National Kitchen + Bath Asso­ciation (NKBA) has awarded 27 outstanding professional designers in its 2018 Design Competition. This year’s winners honor kitchens and bathrooms that “deftly …

Achieving Enlightenment

Top Trends In Interior Lighting Design For 2018 Let Your Light Shine
By Cheryl Alexander
If any one feature in your home can make it look drab and outdated, it is the lighting. Old fixtures, out-of-style chandeliers …

Latest Furniture Trends Bring Flair to Our Homes

Design And Composition Can Accentuate Your Style
Those who are in the know about the latest furniture trends have predicted good news: a range of options are available to transform your home in these days of …

Royal Building Products Bring Beauty to Homes with Interior Trim and Moulding

Complement Your Décor With New Interior Trim Products
If ceilings, walls and hallways could only talk. Well, now they can. In the lexicon of design – texture, color, dimension and scale – the interior of your …

Spring Furniture Trends Bring Color and Composition

Add New Pieces To Accentuate Your Style
Across a spectrum of print, web and television media, trend spotters are bringing forth the best in spring furniture fashions to transform your home in the coming days …

Inventive and Imaginative, Ultra Violet Lights our Color Path

Ultra Violet 18-3838 is the Pantone® Color of the Year 2018
Pantone has made its yearly pronouncement: the dramatically provocative and thoughtful purple shade, Pantone 18-3838 Ultra Violet, is the Color of the Year 2018. According …

Reclaiming Homes, Reclaiming Lives

Sugar Land Home and Garden Show welcomes star of Texas Flip n’ Move, Catrina Kidd

By Mara Soloway
Catrina Kidd has an obvious flair for construction project planning and management. The Weatherford, Texas resident is a successful …

Home Furnishings Continue to Hit a High Point

Fabulous seating complements other great pieces
We’re finding it quite amazing how the noble, utilitarian chair now has so many variations on its theme, including as an art piece with great shapes and fabrics that run …

Home Furnishings Hit a High Point

Textures, Illumination And Fabulous Seating Abound
The Fall Trendsetter Report from High Point Market is a wonderful overview of what’s in vogue in the world of home furnishings and accessories. We were inspired by its creative …

Walls Gone Wild

High-Impact Wallpaper Trends
By Cheryl Alexander
From floral to fauna, from bold to demure, from tropical to traditional, this season wallpapers are wild with prints, textures and colors. Whether your home makeover involves an entire room or …

Walls That Talk

Tile Statements That Say Everything About Your Style
By Cheryl Alexander
Choosing the right wall tiles for your home just got easier and a lot more fun. Though the choices are plenty, don’t be overwhelmed. Quit wondering …

Outstanding Bath Designers Show off Their Talents

Winning Baths And Powder Rooms Make A Splash At NKBA
The winners of this year’s National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) design competition demonstrated a flow of imaginative design solutions. Seven individuals were honored across the …

Beauty and Function Meet in Winning Kitchen Designs

Annual NKBA Competition Honors Outstanding Professional Designers
More than 20 individuals were honored across six main kitchen and bath categories and six specialty categories in the 2017 NKBA Design Competitions. Entries were judged based on the …

What’s Underfoot in Laminate Flooring What’s Underfoot in Laminate Flooring

Laminate flooring is a multi-layer synthetic flooring product fused together using a lamination process. This type of flooring can accurately simulate almost anything — wood, stone, even photographs or scans of anything imaginable …

Walls Gone Wild

High-Impact Wallpaper Trends
By Cheryl Alexander
From floral to fauna, from bold to demure, from tropical to traditional, this season wallpapers are wild with prints, textures and colors. Whether your home makeover involves an entire room or …

The High Point of Your Home Decor

Show Off Your Decorating Flair With These Home Interior Trends
By Mara Soloway
The High Point Market is back with its home interiors prognostications for this Spring. This twice-yearly market held in North Carolina is full …

Home Furnishings are Going “Green”

Pantone’s 2017 Color Of The Year Evokes The Renewal That Comes In Spring
By Mara Soloway
Have you noticed an abundance of home furnishings in showrooms and interior design studios in a fresh shade of yellow-green? Here’s …

Walls That Talk

Tile Statements That Say Everything About Your Style
By Cheryl Alexander
Choosing the right wall tiles for your home just got easier and a lot more fun. Though the choices are plenty, don’t be overwhelmed. Quit wondering …

Color Me Happy

Using Paint To Create Your Home’s Mood
By Cheryl Alexander
More than simply a demonstration of your preferences in taste and style, home décor can have a psychological impact on your mood. Proponents of color psychology believe …

A Celebration of Individuality

The Rise Of White And Off-White Shades In Home Interiors
The first step many homeowners consider when designing a room is the color palette, and often times, they opt for hues that highlight their own distinct …

What’s In Style For Your Home’s Interior – Part 2

The Latest Furniture and Decorating Trends
By Mara Soloway
Just like the fashions we wear, home furnishings have new styles and trends. They start gaining notice and ultimately build momentum as trade show organizers (such as those …

What’s In Style For Your Home’s Interior – Part I

The Latest Furniture and Decorating Trends
By Mara Soloway
Just like the fashions we wear, certain furniture and decorative pieces emerge as trends that highlight what is in vogue for the home. Often they are announced by …

A Beginner’s Guide to Stone Selection

Consider Which Material Is Best For Each Use
By Rachel Potter
Natural stone is a versatile material that can be used in many places throughout the home. Commonly used for kitchen countertops, stone is also a great …