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 Elkay Kitchen and Bathroom Sinks. Care and maintenance.
Your Elkay sink is made from the finest nickel bearing stainless steel. Its mellow satin surface harmonizes with any color scheme...Any decor. Timeless. Elegant. And, like fine silver, its beautiful finish becomes lovelier with use and age. Your Elkay sink is solid stainless steel and with proper care and maintenance will give you a lifetime of service
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Choosing your kitchen sink
Whether you're building, remodeling, or just sprucing up your kitchen, one big decision will be your choice of a sink. These guidelines are designed to help you make the best choice for your kitchen, for years of durability, working pleasure and high quality appearance.
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Kitchen Sinks ideas
The sink is the busiest spot in your kitchen. Nearly every task begins or ends in its embrace, so choosing the right one for the way you will use it and the way it will look may be one of the most important decisions you will make when planning your kitchen.
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Granite: tile and countertops
Granite, an increadibly dense and hard-working material, comes in an amazing array of colors and textures. Granite tiles that are available in various sizes and thicknesses are used for indoor and outdoor applications for flooring, cladding walls, or pavers. Granite slabs are used for fabricating kitchen countertops, vanity tops, and other surfaces.
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Kitchen Cabinets: Accessories
Accessories are intended to increase accessibility, organization, and make your kitchen unique. Some popular accessories include...
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Kitchen Cabinets: Pricing
There are several factors that affect the price of the kitchen cabinets: cabinet construction, the door style, the type of wood species, the type of finish and glaze, the layout of the kitchen, additional accessories and finishing touches.
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Kitchen Cabinets Construction: Framed, Frameless, Inset
Kitchen cabinets come in countless styles, but in terms of construction they fit into three standard categories: face-framed, frameless, and inset. Face-framed cabinets have a frame to which the cabinet doors are attached. Face frame has horizontal rails and vertical stiles ...
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Kitchen Cabinet Care
Because kitchen cabinetry finishes vary widely, always follow manufacturer’s maintenance instructions. For added safety, test a new cleaning solution in an inconspicuous area to make sure it causes no damage. The following are some general tips and precautions...
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Kitchen Cabinetry: Basics
Kitchen cabinet doors can add to the beauty of your kitchen. The appearance of your kitchen cabinets rests on the quality of your cabinets. You can therefore completely change the look of your kitchen simply by changing the doors of your kitchen cabinets.
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Kitchen Cabinets: Door inserts
Many doors and drawers can have inserts made from a variety of materials. Shown here is just a sampling of the door and insert options. Please visit our showroom or contact our Kitchen & Bath specialists for complete information about the options available.
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Kitchen Cabinets Finishes: Maple, Cherry, Red oak...
Red Oak is a strong hardwood with a long, linear grain, often displaying tiny rays. May display small pinholes and tight knots. Color ranges from a golden blonde to deeper tones and can include grays and greens.
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Finishing Touches in Your Kitchen
Moldings are being used more and more to add personality and pizzazz to kitchen cabinets. Woods like oak, cherry, maple and other hardwoods add richness no other feature can match but details like fluted columns, beaded inset doors, valences, cornices, rosettes, galley rails and open shelves combine function and beauty in any room of the house, including kitchens and baths.
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Kitchen Lifestyle and Design
Whether you’re updating an existing space or building your dream kitchen, consider these questions of lifestyle and function. Your answers will shape nearly every choice you make about your new kitchen, from layout and lighting to furniture and flooring. The help and expertise of kitchen design professionalscan be invaluable during the entire process.
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Kitchen Layout
There are really only five fundamental “shapes” when it comes to kitchens. U-SHAPED. Cabinets and appliances are arrayed along three walls. This works best with the sink in the center of the “U” and the refrigerator at one end of a counter...
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Kitchen Style Guide
When it comes to kitchen cabinetry, there’s no question that efficiency and functionality are of the essence. Whether you’re building the cabinets yourself or hiring a professional to complete the job, understanding your options and making an informed decision about the construction of your cabinetry will enable you to be satisfied with both the look and feel of your cabinetry.
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Kitchen cabinetry. Wood species
All the commercially available North American hardwoods are crafted into furniture, cabinetry, woodwork and built-ins. Hardwood species are valued for their natural warmth, versatility and beauty. Just as no two trees are alike, no two pieces of wood are alike.
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Kitchen Cabinets Installation
When considering cabinets, there are three general categories to consider. These choices are referred to as stock, semi-custom, or custom. You will find a huge price range between the three cabinet categories so be sure to look at as many as you can until you are comfortable making a decision.
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Kitchen Cabinets: Alder Finish
Alder is a soft hardwood with a fine, straight grain and even texture. Color is light brown with a yellow or reddish tinge, with little difference between heartwood and sapwood. Alder does not evolve in color or darken when exposed to light or heat as other woods do and takes stains and finishes well. It is one of the softest hardwoods so care must be taken to avoid damage. Some small tight knots can be found with standard Alder.
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Kitchen Cabinets: Cherry Finishes
Cherry wood displays a distinctive grain pattern and warm color shadings, ranging from nearly white to dark reddish brown. Dark pockets, pin knots and random streaks are common. More than most woods, Cherry will darken when exposed to light, especially in light stains. The more sun a particular area of Cherry receives, the faster it will darken. This will be most evident in new Cherry and slow as the Cherry ages.
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Kitchen Cabinets: Hickry Finish
Hickory is a heavy, strong hardwood known for flowing, vibrant grain patterns and dramatic color variations. Hickory can also exhibit random pecks, burls, and mineral streaks that show up as beautiful details on kitchen cabinets. Hickory's color ranges across a wide spectrum, from nearly white to dark brown.
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Kitchen Cabinets:Designer Maple Finish
Tinted Varnishes give fine maple cabinetry a striking solid color appeal. The optimal addition of Chocolate, Vanilla, Latté or Nickel glazing creates an impression of aging and detail. Distressing comes standard with glazing, or "No Distressing" may be designated. Accent colors are offered on trim pieces and moldings.
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Kitchen Cabinets: Maple Finish
Maple is a versatile hardwood with a fine, smooth grain. Maple varies in color from nearly white to a slightly reddish brown. Mineral or sugar streaks occur naturally in Maple and can vary from piece to piece. Variations will be more noticeable in lighter stains.
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Kitchen Cabinets: New Finish
Amaretto is a black tinted varnish finish complete with rounded worn edges and corners, and worn areas here and there on the center panel and moldings. The rub through exposes a sweet touch of sunshine.
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Most Popular Kitchen Cabinets Finishes
The wood the cabinet manufacturers use is quality wood that is beautiful when left with its natural color. But sometimes, an extra detail is needed to make the space come together as you had imagined it. These popular wood cabinet finishes enhance the look of the kitchen cabinets and add individual style.
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Red Oak Kitchen Cabinets Finishes
Red Oak is a strong hardwood with a long, linear grain, often displaying tiny rays. May display small pinholes and tight knots. Color ranges from a golden blonde to deeper tones and can include grays and greens. Quarter Sawn Red Oak is milled at an angle 60 to 90 degrees from the grain allowing rays and flecks to become visible, giving the wood a unique, often vintage character and dimension.
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Kitchen Backsplash. Ceramic TIle, natural stone, decorative inserts.
Capable of functioning as an eye-catching element, the main purpose of a backsplash is that of a protective barrier, shielding the wall's surface against the splatter of day-to-day cooking. Because the splash comprises somewhat of a limited area, it becomes feasible to add that extra punch to your kitchen design for a reasonably small investment.
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How to design your Kitchen Island.
Because the island is generally intended to a workhorse, it is a good idea to select a material that can fend for itself against constant abuse. Granite, slate, limestone will all provide a low maintenance surface.
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Designing a Kitchen Island:bauty and functionality
Your kitchen needs to be big enough for an island, usually at least 13 feet wide. The size of the actual island will also depend on the overall available space. You need to make sure that there is enough room to walk between the island and cabinetry as well as open all doors (cabinets, dishwasher, compost bin, etc.). Also, if you are planning to have barstools or chairs at the island, make sure there is enough room with them there.
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Accessible Kitchen Design
Kitchen remodeling involves a lot of thought if you are trying to design a kitchen that will function well with your particular household. Each family has particular needs and demands and uses the space in different ways. Take this into account as you begin your remodel and construct a more efficient and attractive kitchen for your home.
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What to Look For in Selecting Kitchen Flooring. Kitchen Floor Design.
Many homeowners tend to make the mistake of not giving enough thought to flooring options. The right flooring can make a big difference in a kitchen. For instance flooring with light or neutral tones creates an impression of light and space. Stronger colors might work in a small kitchen, but not in a larger one.
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What about installing wood in high traffic areas like kitchens?
The urethane finishes on most new wood floors stand up to water and traffic, bringing wood flooring into bathrooms, kitchens, and other higher-stress areas. These finishes resist wear and stains better than other finishes and require no stripping, no buffing and no waxing. High traffic areas include exterior doorways, hallways, mud rooms, and the areas in front of the sink, stove and refrigerator.
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Stone and ceramic tile Kitchen Flooring
Limestone, tumbled marble, and slate tiles are among the most elegant flooring choices available. These tiles share properties with marble, granite, and other stone materials, but are valued as much for their interesting textures as for their colorations. Natural stone tiles must be sealed to prevent stains.The right wall treatments can really bring out the flooring, as well as the other materials in your kitchen.
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Laminate Kitchen Flooring
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What You Need to Know About Kitchen Colors
Color is very important design element for kitchens and bathrooms since it plays an important role in affecting our modes. A good combination of kitchen colors in the scheme of your decoration can make your kitchen look livelier and more appealing. However mismatched color schemes can ruin your décor.
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Some Things to Consider in Planning a Kitchen Remodel
With today's kitchens becoming more and more a center of social, family, and functional activities, kitchen remodeling has gained importance in the life of many households. Kitchen remodeling can become economically challenging because of budgetary concerns or space restrictions. Despite the cost involved in hiring design and construction professionals, usually they can help with a variety of such problems.
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Kitchen Storage Solutions
A kitchen is the most used workshop in the home, and so it is important to have that workshop be as efficient as possible. There are a wide variety of kitchen storage solutions that are available. Some of these storage solutions are made for specific brands of cabinets and others the kind that you can add to most standard modular cabinets.
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10 Steps to Your Dream Kitchen. Kitchen Remodeling guide
This chapter will lead you through your kitchen remodeling project, giving you advice and tips you might need. You can find here kitchen design ideas, planning and installation tips etc. There is also information for those who have already finished their remodeling and need some maintenance tips, decoraing ideas etc.
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Planning a Budget for Your Kitchen Remodeling Project
Conduct a thorough and honest examination of your finances to reveal how much you can afford to spend. Than ask yourself how long you are going to stay in that home. If you plan to live in a home for five years or less then the improvements should be viewed as improvements on investment. If you're going to be there for a longer period of time, you want to look at what's going to make you and your family the most comfortable.
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How to hire a Contractor for your Kitchen Remodeling Project
Take the time to have clear idea of what scale and scope of renovation you want and what financial resources you can direct toward the project. There is no sense to lie to yourself or a contractor about what you can afford. Take photos of homes you admire, cut pictures of out magazines, and assemble other images which will help describe the type of results you hope see when your project is complete.
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Buy Kitchen Appliances That Match Your Needs
Every kitchen needs the essentials: a refrigerator, dishwasher, stove and oven. Most refrigerators come in one of three configurations. The traditional top-mounted fridge, with the refrigerator on the bottom, is the most common, so there are a wide range of models to choose from. Bottom-mounted refrigerators, where the refrigerator is on top, put food at eye level, which is a plus for people who use fresh ingredients to cook...
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Kitchen lighting
When it comes to kitchen lighting, the most common mistake is trying to light the entire room with one ceiling-mounted fixture. The result ends up being what Whitehead calls a "glare bomb," which visually overpowers everything in the space. Recessed lighting, if installed in a generic grid, isn't much better. A good plan blends lighting into the architectural and decorative details of the room.
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