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Are Granite Countertops Timeless? Yay or Nay

08/15/2012
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source I was clearly a little too opinionated without giving you context yesterday when I posted about my preference of quartz over granite so here’s the reason why I’m not a big fan of granite: I have talked to hundreds of clients who don’t like the granite they inherited. Why? Because the colour and pattern…

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Spectrum Stone and Maria’s New Countertops

08/14/2012
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Did you know that you can’t measure for countertops until after your cabinets are installed? Well, that’s why it took an extra few weeks of camping outside when we first moved into our new house. Felix (the owner) & Vincent (sales) Then measurement day came, yay! One of the reasons I used Spectrum Stone to…

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My Kitchen Cabinets are in – Next the Countertops

06/16/2012
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My cabinets were delivered on Thursday afternoon. When Richard from Quality Cabinets arrived to install them on Friday I had a question for him. I have seen so many half finished kitchens with the boxes installed without the doors, I half expected mine to arrive the same way because I thought maybe that was normal….

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Quality Cabinets: Maria’s New White Kitchen

04/25/2012
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We have decided to renovate the kitchen now before we move in and not wait until next summer (and it may not be totally finished by the end of May but that’s okay). I called upon one of the best kitchen designers in Vancouver, Jan Romanuk. She doesn’t have a website because she pretty much…

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What NOT to Do with Your Kitchen Island Design

12/05/2011
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So just to be clear, I am not a kitchen designer. In other words, if you need a new footprint, or you need someone to design your cabinetry, where your spices and cookie sheets will be stored, well I am not that person. source However, which colour? Which countertop? Floor? Which backsplash goes with granite?…

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Vancouver Interior Designer: Can You Have White Kitchen Cabinets in a Dark Room?

09/13/2011
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I have been asked this question a few times. Whenever someone has read “A Light Colour will Never come to Life in a Dark Room”.

Can you have white cabinets in a dark kitchen? Yes. Here’s where I totally break that rule. Your cabinets are like furniture and I would put white furniture anywhere regardless of how dark or light the room was.
It’s also the reason why I would not paint the walls the same colour as the cabinets.

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Vancouver Interior Designer: Will Installing Granite Sell your House Faster?

08/15/2011
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My clients previously had renters in the house I’m talking about (below) and were now going to do a quick little renovation to sell it. This was an old character home and the last renovation had been done in the 80’s which meant that all the cabinets in the bathroom and the kitchen were oak. The advice they received from their realtor was so WRONG that I had to pull out all my best stories to convince them that they should follow my advice instead.

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The Dangerous Side of Creativity

06/19/2011
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The other day while in a clients home discussing kitchen finishes, she announced “I’m going in this direction with the hardware because I want to mix it up a bit’.  And I realized in that moment that there was a post in that statement because there is a danger in doing that.  Not like ‘mixing…

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3 Ways to Update a Brand New House

04/21/2011
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Whenever I am with a client either on the phone virtually (like the following house in Omaha) or in person and I announce that the carpet, backsplash or sofa (for example) has a—gasp–pink undertone, my clients almost always react the same way—oh no, what do we do now!

ouse is brand new!”. I replied, ‘”Here’s how you know this kitchen is NOT current, you will never find it in a magazine from 2011”. That was all the confirmation Laura needed (and luckily her husband agreed). She set about painting all the oak woodwork including the kitchen white and here are the results!

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