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Kitchen-exchange
http://kitchen-exchange.blogspot.com/
San Francisco Bay Area, independent Certified Kitchen Designer, Peggy Deras blogs on kitchen design and residential remodeling. Answers questions. Posts images that intrigue, and delight her. Also sub-blogs on facets of kitchen design.
Recent Posts
Professional Kitchen Design for DIY Homeowners
I was just cruising the Web and stopped by Susan Serra's blog, The Kitchen Designer to see what she was up to...The post I link to is about the questions our clients don't ask that can get everyone into trouble when it comes to executing our designs ...
How to Hire a "Green" Contractor
Green Building Advisor is offering a down-loadable free white paper, Thinning the Herd for homeowners who want to learn what to expect and ask of builders or remodelers promoting themselves as experienced "green" practitioners. In fact, the article a...
Honor Our Veterans
Veteran's Day is coming up next Wednesday, November 11th.Around our house every day is Veteran's Day. My husband is a vet who was badly wounded in Vietnam in 1969 at age 19.We met in 1989 when he came into my showroom and asked me to help him redesig...
Swap Your Lightbulbs and Save the Earth
There is a new study out by the American Council for an Energy-Free Economy. here is an excerpt:"Saving a kilowatt-hour through energy efficiency improvements is easily one-third or less the cost of any new source of electricity supply, whether conve...
Designing Kitchens with Essential Tremor
October is National Movement Disorders Awareness Month. October is also National Kitchen & Bath Month!I am going to combine these two themes into one post, because that's the way I live my life every day.Obviously I am a kitchen and bath designer. No...
Q & A On Installing Used Cabinets
Q.Hi Peggy, What you are doing with this blog is WONDERFUL !!! Thanks. My wife and I are remodeling our kitchen (with small eating area attached). We have just bought a complete (16 piece) used kitchen with Cherry cabinets made by Wood Mode. These a...

