Renovation Articles | Kitchen Design

You've been spending a LOT more time in your kitchen since the early spring of this year. It's been great having time as a family preparing and eating meals, so that's been a real ...

Kitchens and baths are prime spaces when it comes to renovation projects. Sometimes the need is obvious. You purchase a home with an outdated kitchen that will never meet your ...

When you look at your kitchen, there’s nothing exactly wrong with it. It’s functional and has served your family well. Nothing’s broken, so why fix it? Well, if you are ...

If your Kensington Maryland home was built during the post WWII era, there’s a good chance that its fundamental layout is still the way it was when televisions only had 3 channels ...

If building an addition is not an option because of budget constraints or space limitations, don’t give up on the idea of remodeling your kitchen. Kitchen designers know how to ...

A kitchen designer should always be in charge of your kitchen renovation - even if it is part of a larger architect-designed project. The kitchen designer brings valuable insights ...

Beautiful + Practical: The Art of Kitchen Remodeling Inundated by decades of dazzlingprogramming on HGTV and The Food Channel, America’s passion for kitchen perfection shows no ...

  As you flip through pictures on Pinterest, Houzz, and Instagram to imagine your kitchen renovation, did you ever wonder why you’re drawn to certain images?  Chances are that the ...

Returning from the KBIS (Kitchen & Bath Industry Show), our kitchen and bath designers were “vertically” flowing with excitement!  Two main themes emerged from their 3-day ...

  A kitchen designer is familiar with the latest features available in cabinetry, appliances and other products for the kitchen. Who better to answer the question "why you need a ...

Do you or don't you need tow work with a kitchen designer for your kitchen remodeling project? It is possible that you may regret it if you don't use a designer. The kitchen ...

Avoid the Pain: Work With a Kitchen Designer Kitchen remodeling? Please, don't do it yourself! If you hire a smart, seasoned kitchen designer you won't have to worry about ...

This week we had a coffee-talk with our favorite kitchen & bath designers.  We grilled them about the value of their services for a homeowner planning to remodel a kitchen.

Kitchen Work Centers We have talked about the kitchen work triangle and how it effectively makes or breaks a kitchen design.  If the geometry is off, the kitchen -no matter how ...

Applying a painted glass overlay is now an established alternative to tile backsplash as an accent in the modern kitchen color palette.  We are seeing more of this type of finish ...

The modern kitchen layout has developed along side modern kitchen design---which emphasizes an open plan concept.  Instead of the kitchen being a small, isolated room in the back ...

Modern Kitchen Design Floor Plans Modern kitchen design layouts are referenced by the shape they make when viewed on a floor plan.  The most popular kitchen design configurations ...

Here is a perfect example of the high quality of collaboration that occurs daily in a truly integrated design build remodeling firm.  Kitchen designer Ellen Gilday Witts and ...

Choosing Countertops for the Modern Kitchen There are now many more types of kitchen countertop materials to choose from. And yet, most of our clients still choose natural stone. ...

The Finishing Touch Choosing your paint colors--that truly puts the finishing touch on a home remodeling project.  Do not under estimate the importance of this choice.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They absolutely do not make kitchen cabinets like they used to.  And that's a good thing.   High quality kitchen cabinets can be designed in any style you like.  And with clever ...

To celebrate her heritage, one of our clients asked us to develop a rustic kitchen design aesthetic that expressed Tuscan style. Tuscan style favors a brawny, earthy look--the ...

This kitchen project in progress is a perfect example of how kitchen design styles change over time.  As designers and remodelers learn more and as clever materials, techniques ...

How Much Is Too Much That's easy.  It's the same as the answer to the question (women will get this) how much make up is too much'.  Bobbi Brown's answer when asked by Oprah was, ...

Granite Counter Tops Granite didn't used to be all the rage.  It used to be dress code for banks and public buildings that represented a strength and immortality we could ...

The Zombie Kitchen Surely it was someone's "dream kitchen" once upon a time in Bethesda, Maryland--but no more. This kitchen has been dead for a long time.  It’s just that nobody ...

Here is a great example of how Gilday Renovations can reconfigure interior space to address functional needs in a kitchen design without getting into the cost of a room addition.  ...

At Gilday Renovations, we frequently encounter homes built in the days before kitchens were capable of being so beautiful to look at.  And, until recent advances in kitchen design ...

  One + One = One Better This Arlington Virginia kitchen remodeling project began with a tiny galley kitchen and a tiny breakfast room.  Neither of them worked satisfactorily for ...