Kitchen Remodeling

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 kitchen remodel had been poorly conceived. 

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  Old and outdated becomes new and modern.

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 granite countertop obsession that swept Metro Washington DC homeowners...

Make Your Kitchen Feel Bigger & Function Better: Interior Renovation & Reconfiguration This happens a lot in metropolitan Washington, DC.  We encounter older homes with floor plans that the owners describe as "chopped up" or having "too many rooms and...

  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 committing any of these kitchen remodeling blunders. But just for fun, here...

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 as to which attributes of the space can be changed and which are...

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.  

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, high-end appliances--all in good working order. There is a logic to...