Design Ideas For Black Kitchen Cabinets

‘We have to get enormous amounts of black money past the Election Commission ‘If you can’t stand the heat, you should get out of the kitche...

Modern Kitchen Design Ideas 2016

This is a sponsored post by Anna Gibson, owner of AKG Design Studio and an award-winning, certified kitchen and bathroom designer. AKG Desig...

Contemporary Modern Kitchen Design Ideas

In keeping up to date with kitchen designs for a modern house,” he said. One of the highlights is the Sleek Linear collection, which forms ...

White Kitchen Cabinets Design Ideas

Photo by Chi Renovation & Design The winning cabinet color was Jocular Green by Sherwin-Williams. He then designed the space to feel li...

Modern Kitchen Design Ideas Photos

When a couple in Chicago purchased this early-20th-century home in the city's Humboldt Park neighborhood, they knew their kitchen needed...

Top 5 Tips for Renovating an Old House

Each time my wife and I finish renovating a home, I tell myself that I will never fix up an older home again.  And yet, I find myself in the...

The Secrets of Selling Design - a quick primer

One of the great benefits of living in a world of mobile technology is the ease with which you can get new and interesting things served up ...

The 5 Best Questions to Ask when hiring an Architect

In our office, we get alot of phone calls from people who are in the midst of a project gone wrong and ask us to step in and help them out. ...

The Importance of Failure in Great Design

It has been said that Thomas Edison made 1,000 prototypes before he had success with the light bulb.  It is also true that Charles and Ray E...

Designing a better candidate

There is a widely accepted history of Abraham Lincoln that goes something like this: In 1831, Abraham Lincoln failed in business. In 1832, A...

5 Things that Architects can learn from Doctors and Lawyers

It's no secret that Architecture is generally thought of as a noble profession.  Along with the idea that you get to create buildings ou...

The Most Creative People

I had to chuckle slightly after reading Fast Company's list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.  Let me start by saying that I ...

Has Dwell Magazine become irrelevant?

As someone who has built a life around being a proponent of Modern Design, I find myself supporting and gravitating towards companies that h...

The new rules of Retail Design

It's no secret that internet retailers have been taking market share from brick and mortar stores over the last few years.  Recent numbe...

The Truth about Ikea Kitchen Cabinets

It's no surprise that the kitchen is probably the most common home renovation that people choose to do.  It's the place where everyo...

Steve Jobs and a Legacy of Design

I started writing this post over a month ago when Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple.  At the time, I felt really disturbed over this news ...