2009 NKBS Awards Winner Medium Kitchen - First Place

Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath, Ltd.

Chevy Chase, MD
Designer: Jennifer L. Gilmer, CKD

Design Notes: Designed for a top local real-estate agent’s own home, this kitchen needed to be a showcase that maximized the ocean view. The cabinets balance the warmth of walnut with frosted glass inserts in cool hues, with matching floating shelves suspended from cables on either side of the cooktop. A custom round butcher-block table on casters can be positioned on the island or moved to the side.


Products and Materials: Premier Custom-Built walnut cabinets with antique cherry finish, valley gold marble countertops with antique finish, Grohe faucet, Sub-Zero refrigerator, Gaggenau cooktop.

2009 NKBS Awards Winner Medium Kitchen - Second Place

Design First Kitchen Interiors
Ottawa, ON
Designer: Friedemann Weinhardt

Design Notes: Inspired by Beaux Arts art and architecture, this kitchen design uses eclectic styles and strict symmetry. A custom mosaic countertop and pale green cabinetry make the island stand out from the white marble and white cabinets on the walls. At right, the “Chinese wedding cabinet” conceals the refrigerator.

Products and Materials: SieMatic BeauxArts collection cabinets in magnolia white, dark maple, and amaranth green; white Carrara marble perimeter countertops and backsplashes, limestone flooring, Wolf range, SieMatic range hood, Sub-Zero refrigerator, Blanco sink and faucet.

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2009 NKBS Awards Winner Medium Kitchen - Third Place

Neil Kelly Designers/Remodelers
Lake Oswego, OR
Designer: Diane Foreman, CKD, CBD
Co-Designer: Jamie Rupprecht, AKBD

Design: As they prepared their home for sale, the clients wanted a “wow” kitchen on a moderate budget. This eclectic mid-century design features floating cherry cabinets with espresso and brandy stains and a backsplash made of porcelain tile with sections of random patterned glass mosaic tiles. The island stands out with a sandblasted glass dining bar lit from below by LED rope lighting.

Products and Materials: Best by Broan range hood, Décor cabinets, Wilsonart Monterey Storm laminate countertops, verde typhoon granite tile countertops, Kohler faucet, Justice Design Group Limoges collection pendant lights.

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2009 NKBS Awards Winner Medium Kitchen - Honorable Mention

Binns Kitchen + Bath Design

Pickering, ON
Designer: Richard J. Farrell

Design: To turn a one-cook kitchen into a room that functions for four without looking cluttered, the designer relied on two pantries and deep drawers instead of wall cabinets, with floating shelves for everyday items. A wall of appliances, including a speed oven, a steam oven and an espresso machine, completes the kitchen.

Products and Materials: Silestone Grey Amazon quartz countertop with leather finish; Kohler Karbon faucet; Franke sink; Miele microwave, wall oven, cooktop and vent hood; Liebherr refrigerator; SieMatic cabinetry in elm.

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2009 NKBA Design Award: Small Kitchens – First Place

Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath, Ltd. Chevy Chase, MD
Designer: Jennifer L. Gilmer, CKD

Design Notes: A world traveler and collector of objets d’art, the client sought a sleek kitchen design that incorporated her collection. Broad shelves over two side-by-side single wall ovens provide a showcase for favorite pieces. Light granite counters and a frosted glass tile backsplash balance the dark wood cabinets.

Products and Materials: Bosch wall ovens, cooktop and ventilation; mother-of-pearl granite countertops; Corsi Symphony Euro cabinets made from composite rift-cut white oak.

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2009 NKBA Award: Small Kitchens – Second Place

Binns Kitchen + Bath Design Pickering, ON
Designer: Beverly Leigh Binns

Design Notes: To create a kitchen where the cook’s two children could help, the designer opened a hallway, moved a powder room and added a pantry. The new L-shaped kitchen offers access to the deck and the dining room, provides a built-in seating area, and looks modern while referencing the home’s traditional design.

Products and Materials: Wolf range, Faber Diamante vent hood, Silestone Blanco Maple quartz countertop, Artcraft Kitchens cabinets.

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2009 NKBA Design Award: Small Kitchens – Third Place

Partners 4 Design Minneapolis, MN
Designer: Roger W. Zierman

Design Notes: This city condo served as a retired couple’s second home. To make the kitchen match their contemporary artistic style, they began with a daring red quartz countertop. A combination of metallic, matte and glossy finishes in neutral shades for the walls, cabinetry, appliances and flooring complete this sophisticated kitchen, designed for entertaining.

Products and Materials: Silestone Red Eros quartz countertop, Poggenpohl acrylic cabinets with Cubanit high-gloss finish; Calcutta Gold marble floor, horizontal glass tile backsplash in Encore Beige from Artistic Tile’s Opera Glass collection; Gaggenau appliances.

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2009 NKBA Design Award: Small Kitchens – Honorable Mention

Design First Kitchen Interiors Ottawa, ON
Designer: Friedemann Weinhardt

Design Notes: Integrated appliances and open sightlines make this galley kitchen’s design a success. Placing tall elements near the existing pantry and using an on-wall storage system rather than shelving kept the counters and walls near the window open and left space to display photography.

Products and Materials: SieMatic onWall storage system and cabinetry in truffle brown pine, white Carrara marble countertops and backsplash, Blanco BlancoPrecision sink and Ziros faucet.

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Small Kitchen Design Tips

Small Kitchen Design with U-Shaped Kitchen Layout

Small kitchen design may seem to be a very high design challenge, but they can also be functional, beautiful and efficient. Even with a space or building restriction with limited budge, you can find that there are some options open to us to transform our kitchen into something more ideal for our needs.

We need to design more unique storage solutions, mixing natural and ambient lighting, taking advantage of more space saving appliances and personalized style. To create the small but efficient kitchen design, we need to work on three major areas of small kitchen design: i. storage, ii. lighting, iii. appliances.

A small kitchen design requires creativity in coming up with storage solutions. Some ideas to try include:

1. Putting an island in the center of the kitchen that can provide freestanding storage that is also convenient from any spot in the kitchen.

2. Using a galley/parallel kitchen design in which the kitchen cabinet and appliances line up on either side of a corridor can work out very well for a small kitchen space.

3. Today's appliance manufacturers have come up with more compact space-saving appliances make small kitchen design easier.

4. Other small kitchen design tricks to create an eating area in the kitchen include using a drop table or a small sized round table with two small chairs that can be tucked into a corner. Or a built-in counter along the wall with chairs to provide an eating area.

5. Installing deeper kitchen cabinets that can accommodate more appliances and increase work space.

6. For storage you can hang up pots and pans. This is a perfect way to free up kitchen cabinet space. The insides of kitchen cabinet doors can be used to hang up everything from utensils, oven mitts and other miscellaneous items. Pantry storage with units that go all the way to the ceiling with the upper cabinets to provide more space for seldom used items while making the lower cabinets more accessible with rollout shelves, lazy susans and tilt-out bins.

7. Install a large kitchen sink, since larger sinks are considered to be more practical than small sinks when it comes to cleaning pots and pans.

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Kitchen Remodeling Ideas, Kuala Lumpur

In Malaysia, the kitchen is the centre of life in a family. A kitchen that is functional, comfortable and beautiful is now the goals of every family.

If you plan to remodel your kitchen (kitchen remodelling) to make it more functional, more comfortable, more modern and to provide more space for family members, you can create wonderful changes within your budget.

A kitchen remodeling project including the following;

1. New flooring
2. New window
   
3. Wall Painting
4. New kitchen cabinets
   
5. New curtains
6. New appliances - Refrigerator, Microwave, Stoves, Ovens.
   
7. New Counter Tops
8. New Sink and Faucet
9. Water filtration and purification system
10. Ventilation Hoods
11. Lighting
    

If your home is older and your kitchen just needs a little modernizing, you can plan for your kitchen remodeling. Kitchen remodeling can be great and fun. In your kitchen remodeling project, it offers the opportunity to create a more efficient kitchen and to create a space where the family can relax and cook.

Finally, you must ask whether this is something you can do it yourself or you need to hire a kitchen designer or consultant. This will depend on the extent of the renovation or kitchen remodeling, your skills, knowledge and your time. You may be able to do all of the work yourself. You may need to hire kitchen cabinet designer to do the parts of the kitchen remodelling project that you don't feel competent to do. You might just want to relax, have someone else do the work, and simply enjoy the result.

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