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Choosing Kitchen Colors
Balancing Act The color palette for modern kitchens is drawn from dominant and recessive tones. Kitchen & bath designer Leslie Roosevelt says she tries to balance the overall picture. In kitchen design, the dominant ...
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What Design Build Is
Design Is the Heartbeat For Gilday Renovations, residential design build (in the Washington DC metro area) is about seamless integration of all resources, people and processes ...
Under Cabinet Kitchen Lighting With LED
Modern Kitchen Lighting The previous blog post (Lighting Our Kitchens) talked about the overall benefits of LED over other available types of lighting for our kitchen and bath ...
Lighting Our Kitchens: The LED Is In the Lead
Halogen Is Dead That's the word from Ronna Cohen at Annapolis Lighting. In a conversation about trends in kitchen lighting, Ronna said that as of this year they are selling ...
Mercury Rising: The Way of Kitchen Lights
One More Year That's all we've got. By government mandate, we may not use incandescent light bulbs (100w or 75w) past 2013. The incandescent is out (thanks but no thanks Mr. ...
Kitchen Lighting Design
You might expect that the electrician would be in charge of lighting the kitchen. In fact, lighting design is an integral part of the kitchen plan and the designer's ...
Transitional Kitchen Design: A Collision of Design Styles?
The "transitional" style kitchen by any other name would be what? A mash up traditional and contemporary? A haphazard collision of styles? Could be. But in the hands of a clever ...
Kitchen Design Trend Alert: Gray! It's the New.... Something
NKBA's Top Kitchen Design Trends The National Kitchen & Bath Association just published its top ten kitchen and bath design trends based on data culled from the membership. ...
Home Remodeling Brings Order to Chaos
Not As Bad As It Looks Only homeowners who have lived through an extensive home remodeling project know what it feels like to see the place where they live completely torn up. One ...
Live With It? Never In Design Build
Bathroom Remodeling: Can You Live With That? We often find ourselves correcting mistakes left behind by other remodeling companies--especially in a bathroom remodeling project. ...
Integrated Design Build and Bath Remodeling
Integrated Design Build We at Gilday Renovations have coined a term that describes our approach to design build remodeling. We call it integrated design build. That's because the ...
Condo Renovation in Glover Park DC
Smaller and Bigger When working in an older condominium home during a condo renovation we encounter many of the same problems we find when remodeling an older single family ...
A Transitional Style Kitchen Remodel Takes Some Unexpected Turns
Our client, Michelle, spent a number of years living in the Netherlands before coming home to Chevy Chase Maryland with her family. It is not surprising that she developed a taste ...
When An Addition Doesn't Add Up
A previous owner of this Chevy Chase Maryland home had put on a very, very small breakfast room addition. It was the right idea but didn't go far enough. This stingy little ...
Putting the Design in Designer Kitchens
What Makes A Designer Kitchen? The designer does. A smart kitchen designer makes a thorough assessment of the limitations and possibilities of a space. She puts that factual ...
A New Addition to the House
Humble Beginnings New additions all look pretty much the same to me at the beginning--as do new people. It takes time and good genes (or in this case, a sound design build ...
Sweating the Small Stuff: That's Design Build
A Design Build Approach to Kitchen Remodeling The Gilday Renovations design build approach to kitchen design and remodeling is all about details. Details, details, details run the ...
Luxury Kitchen Decor: Finishing Touch
Yesterday we pitched the notion of a kitchen design "style triangle" formed by cabinets, countertops and backsplash selections. These three elements of kitchen decor set the ...
The Other Kitchen Triangle
Work Triangle You've heard of the work triangle. This basic concept of functionality is decades old in the art of modern kitchen design. The term describes the movement pattern ...
A Sixties Rancher Transformed By Design Build
McLean Whole House Renovation Our custom design build practice thrives in the Washington DC metropolitan area because there are so many generations of older homes here. As these ...
A Bathroom Remodel With Something Old, New and Borrowed
We recently remodeled a half bath (a.k.a. powder room) in Chevy Chase Maryland that included something old, something new and something borrowed. It is not uncommon when ...
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