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I am a professional kitchen and bath designer and Kitchen and Residential Design is my daily record of my professional triumphs and tragedies. There are more triumphs than tragedies.
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The Process
By Judd Lord, guest blogger Supposedly, Keith Richards dreamed the guitar riff of “Satisfaction.” He woke up, recorded himself playing the notes into a bedside tape recorder, and fell back asleep. What he had the next morning was a few second...
Standing Room Only - Running back to the Urinal
So many times when we take on a new client it's a woman that sets the tone and style for a new or new-to-an-existing-home kitchen or bathroom. Unfortunately ladies, today is not one of those days. I have always considered myself a man's man; I l...
Beauty\'s where you find it
What does this hair style, Image from InStyle have to do with this kitchen faucet? Hint: it's all in the handle. This is the Venuto by Brizo and it's another home run hit by the team from Indianapolis. The Venuto is a series kitchen faucets a...
Meet the Virage by Brizo
When Brizo faucets had me in New York last September, I was granted a rare glimpse into the world of the fixtures they have in development. I took a vow of silence of course and I've been dying to start talking about some of the stuff they are wor...
Delta revisits a classic
In the 1950s, the Delta Faucet Company introduced the first single-handle kitchen faucet. Back then, it was called simply The Delta Faucet. For a long time, this is what a kitchen faucet looked like. Times changed and tastes changed and Delta intr...
A shower fit for a king
In about three hours I'm going to sign a contract on a house renovation. It's a nice job, we're transforming a waterfront ranch house that's currently a rabbit warren of small rooms into an open floor plan with a water view from nearly every room in...
Got a toilet story?
The terrific Joyce Wadler had a short piece in last Wednesday's The New York Times about a literary contest of a sort. American Standard is giving away a toilet to the best toilet story submitted between now and October 9th, 2009 on American Stand...
The Science of Showering
Paul asked me to write about a current wave of hysteria over an infectious agent. Just when I thought the H1N1 frenzy was all I could handle, along comes Mycobacterium avium to make people want to switch from efficient showering to bubble baths. I...
New York New York, a wonderful town...
Yesterday's FedEx brought me an envelope, there's nothing unusual about that. However, when I opened it, out fell a brown leather wallet. Not a billfold mind you, but a full-size, breast pocket wallet. In it was my itinerary for my trip to New York...
Check out LaCava's clearance sale
La Cava, the great Chicago-based company that brought us such notables as the Tatami Shower Base, the Waterblade faucet and the Suave bathtub surround (pictured above); is having a clearance sale. This is no 10 percent off sale that's not really a...
Reader question: What color appliances go with a copper sink?
Help! I read your blog all the time but I never wrote to you before. I like that you tell people what's on your mind. I can take it. My partner and I are building a new home and we would LOVE to have a copper sink. What I can't figure out is w...
Brizo announces a fantastic faucet rebate program
Brizo, the maker of fashion-forward faucets and fixtures, is running a rebate program that started on 17 August and runs through the end of 2009. Brizo makes some great-looking and high quality fixtures and their rebate program is a terrific excuse ...
Speaking of urinals
On Saturday I sent out a plaintive cry to the blogosphere, "Help me find the perfect urinal for a master bath project oh wise and powerful Internet." I've been inundated with links and suggestions since Saturday afternoon.I am leaning heavily toward...
A urinal! A urinal! My kingdom for a urinal!
via FlickrI have been specifying household urinals for use in my bath renovation projects for years and I've only managed to get one client to go along for the ride. In that case, we bought an industrial urinal and installed it. I liked its utilitar...
Touch this faucet!
Delta's using a new touch feature on some of their new kitchen faucets. This feature is what Delta calls Touch2O™ technology and it's pretty slick. Here's a demo video from Delta that shows how it works. I'll explain how it works in a bit.So what'...
See what Delta can do
In January of '09 a couple of people started a conversation in my comments section about pull out sprayers. In the course of that exchange, the great Laurie Burke from Kitchen Design Notes brought up Delta's new MagnaTite™ docking system for pull ...
