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The Kitchen Sink and the Remodeling Scoop
From daily5Remodel.com
June 10, 2011
An award-winning kitchen designer at this California design/build firm, a popular blogger, and now an author as well, Kelly Morisseau shares every remodeler's frustration with a public that often holds the industry to the impossible standards of "reality" TV, down to the bare-bones costs and overnight transformations. Read more >>
Small Spaces, Big Living: Design Pros' Tricks
From daily5Remodel.com
June 3, 2011
Asked to do more with less money and smaller spaces, remodelers are thinking creatively and expansively. Inspired by this article in yesterday's New York Times (about a Paris carriage house that is six-and-a-half feet deep), we asked a few of our favorite remodeling designers to share some of their tricks for making small spaces live comfortably. Read more >>
Interest in Kitchens and Bathrooms Beginning to Build
From KBBOnline.com
April 11, 2011
Kitchen or bath remodeling projects may be picking up! According to a recent American Institute of Architects (AIA) Home Design Trends survey, homeowners are indicating a preference for larger and, in some cases, additional kitchens and baths. Read more >>
NKBA Releases Design Trends Survey Results
What's popular in kitchen and bath design? Here are the top 10 kitchen trends from the NKBA. And the survey says…
February 18, 2011
If you believe what they say about the past—and this may also apply to the immediate past—being a good predictor of future behavior, then you may want to pay close attention to the results of the National Kitchen & Bath Association's (NKBA's) annual survey of kitchen and bath design trends. Participating in the survey were more than 100 designers who are association members and have designed kitchens and/or bathrooms during the last three months of 2010. Although the survey findings may not reflect activity in all parts of the country, several commonalities did emerge, indicating that changes in kitchen and bath styles are afoot in this new year. Read more >>
Age Defying
Understand the emotional side of aging in place
By Erin Gallagher
March 18, 2010
There is a great deal of emotion tied to the concept of aging in place. In a study exploring the impact of aging in place on kitchen design, the level of denial on the part of older consumers is clear. “It is essential for designers and marketers to be sensitive to the emotional aspects of aging,” said N. Riley Kirby, the chief of research for the Research Institute for Cooking & Kitchen Intelligence (RICKI), the firm that conducted the study, The Golden Years: Aging-in-Place in the Kitchen. Read more >>
The Master Chart ofv(Home) Design Influence
daily5Remodel.com
“Home design is starting to follow the fashion world, and depending on the age of the homeowner, that's who you have to adapt to,” according to kitchen designer, blogger and trend-watcher Kelly Morisseau. We caught her briefly last night, and asked her to provide the residential design response to The Master Chart of Fashion Influence, published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal in conjunction with New York's fashion week. Read more >>
Fiftysomething Trends for the Year
daily5Remodel.com
Making more of smaller spaces, extending living spaces outdoors, mixing vintage with new, going green on a budget, and staying put and editing, reorganizing and updating: You've heard most of it before, but you've probably never seen these and dozens of other predicted trends brought together in a single infographic. Read more >>
Trending Ahead: "7 Trends Shaping America's Homes" provides some provocative ideas for remodelers.
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For "Echo Boomers," Walkability Rules
The next generation of homebuyers is the 81 million Americans (three million more than the Baby Boom) born between 1981 and 1999. While many are still looking for their first job, and some will contentedly stay in their parents' homes for years, threequarters of "Gen Y-ers" expect to buy their first home by the time they're 35, according to the Concord Group. What's important to them? Proximity to shopping or work (ideally within walking distance), safety and big kitchens.
Single Women: No WINKing Matter
WINK: that's for "women with incomes and no kids," and they're emerging as one of the fastest-growing homebuying demographics out there. Last year, 21 percent of homebuyers were single women; that percentage will grow as women continue to outpace men in graduating from college (already, women earn close to 60 percent of undergraduate degrees) and moving out of their parents' houses. Urban walkability is even more important to WINKs than to Gen Y-ers, but the real linchpin for remodelers that want to work with this increasingly influential buying segment will involve doing an excellent job of earning their trust and treating them with respect. Read more >>