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    Renovation Articles | Kitchen Remodeling

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    Kevin Gilday

    Kitchen Design Styles to Know Before You Remodel

    Although many of the homes in the Metro DC region were built 50, 75 years, or even longer ago and they have gone through several generations of ownership, the exterior most likely ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Kitchen Color Ideas for Your Home Renovation

    Selecting details that bring your kitchen design theme to life As you scroll through pictures on Instagram, Pinterest, and Houzz to imagine your kitchen renovation, did you ever ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    The Art of Kitchen Lighting Design

    Remember your first apartment, with the fluorescent ring light — or if you were lucky a few straight fluorescent lights in the middle of the kitchen — that never quite stopped ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    How Kitchen Layout Makes or Breaks the Kitchen Design

    Modern kitchen layout has developed alongside modern kitchen design — which today emphasizes an open plan concept. While many older homes in the metro DC area were built in the ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Right-Sized Expansion on a Tiny Corner Lot

    Downsizing to a smaller home doesn’t have to be complicated, but it’s never as simple as you imagine. And while it took some doing to get to the final goal, Marie Duellman and ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Three Kitchen Remodel Strategies You’ll Want to Know

    Suppose your home was built during the post-WWII era. In that case, you might be living in a layout that was better suited to a time when one rotary phone was state-of-the-art ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Safely Remodeling Your Kitchen During a Pandemic

    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 ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Should I Renovate My Kitchen and Bath For Resale? Part 2

    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 ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Should I Renovate My Kitchen and Bath for Resale? Part 1

    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 ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    How to Gain a Mudroom and Powder Room When You Build a Kitchen Addition

    It is not uncommon for owners of older homes in places like Arlington and NW Washington to crave more space especially with a kitchen addition. Utilitarian brick houses were built ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    How to Prepare Meals for Your Family while Renovating Your Kitchen

    A remodeling project is the perfect way to create your ideal kitchen, tailored to your family’s specific requirements. But a full kitchen renovation can take 10 to 12 weeks to ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    How Long Should a Kitchen Remodel Take?

    Why Kitchen Remodeling Takes Time The home remodeling programs on HGTV are fun to watch. Magic happens in minutes. Presto! Old and outdated becomes new and modern. This is the ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    How Expert Kitchen Renovation Cures the Many Headaches of Your Outdated Kitchen

    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 ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    3 Tricks Kitchen Designers Use to Make a Small Kitchen Feel Larger

    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 ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    If Kitchen Remodeling Only Makes Your Kitchen Beautiful—You’re in Trouble

    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 ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Three Approaches to Kitchen Remodeling

    You’ve suspected it for a while, but now you’re sure of it: Your kitchen isn’t working. Whether it’s too small, laid out improperly, or just plain outdated, a poorly-functioning ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Smart Home Technology in the Kitchen

    Smart Homes, the Internet of Things, Home Automation—all of these terms are the new vernacular for the place you call home. Smart home technology is no longer a futuristic vision. ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Why was this Kitchen Addition Remodeling Necessary?

    According to one of the homeowners, the old kitchen was ugly! A previous home remodeling at this Chevy Chase residence had made room for a breakfast area and powder room. But that ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Kitchen Remodeling: How Long Should It Take?

    The home remodeling programs on HGTV are fun to watch. Magic happens in minutes. Presto! Old and outdated becomes new and modern.

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    Kevin Gilday

    Kitchen Remodeling Alternatives To Granite

    The End of Granite Countertops in Kitchen Remodeling Are we sick of the slab yet? Starting about eight years ago there were remodeling industry predictions of an end to the great ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Interior Renovation: A Cure For the "Dysfunctional" Kitchen Layout

    Make Your Kitchen Feel Bigger & Function Better: Interior Renovation & Reconfiguration This happens a lot in metropolitan Washington, DC. We encounter older homes with ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Three Painful Kitchen Remodeling Blunders

    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 ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Our Tiny Condo Kitchen Remodeling Project

    Kitchen Remodeling Means Thinking Inside the Box In condo kitchen remodeling, size does not matter. The design process is the same. The kitchen designer has to make an assessment ...

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    Kevin Gilday

    Learning to Build a Kitchen by Taking It Apart

    Give a Young Guy a Hammer Give him a pry bar, set him loose in an empty house--and you better believe some stuff is going to get wrecked up.

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    Kevin Gilday

    Why Remodel a Perfectly Good Kitchen?

    What's Wrong with This Kitchen? Nothing really.... This Cleveland Park, DC kitchen had been remodeled about 10 or 15 years earlier. It's fine. Stone countertops, adequate storage, ...