Kitchen & Bath Design News

12/09/2025

No longer relegated to basements, long-term storage options for wine move upstairs where they become focal-point features within the home. This month, KBDN asked designers to share wine storage solutions, especially wine rooms, that not only properly store wine, but do so while simultaneously showing off.

From serious collectors to social entertainers to casual partakers, those who enjoy a glass…

11/09/2025

The showroom, said company officials, offers consumers unrestricted access to premium window, door, and bath products—24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

WESTLAKE, OH — Window & Bath Expo, a Westlake, OH-based bath remodeling firm, has…

10/09/2025

Today’s homeowners, buffeted by rising costs, labor shortages, a fickle economy and other market headwinds, are becoming increasingly stressed-out by major home-renovation projects – and equally wary of the design and remodeling professionals vying for their business.

Read more from Eliot Sefrin's September 2025 Editorial, "Shrinking the Client 'Trust Gap' — https://bit.ly/3IdFHOG

09/09/2025

Uncertainty Continues as Q4 Looms | A series of headwinds, including the prospect of looming new tariffs, continues to spur uncertainty for the housing and remodeling sectors as 2025 makes its turn into the fourth quarter.

Read about the key statistics and forecasts released in recent weeks by government agencies, research firms and industry-related trade associations here: https://bit.ly/4nlxrLw

04/09/2025

New Issue! • KBDN September 2025 • Backsplash & Countertop Combinations, Wine Storage, Shower Sanctuaries, Natural Tile Trends, Adaptive Design, 2025 Cabinet Style & Design Guide, and more.

Find the Digital Edition of Kitchen & Bath Design News here:
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On the Cover: Jerel Lake, principal designer of LakeHaus Designs in Atlanta, GA, drew inspiration from his client’s colorful personal style for this kitchen, which features a marble perimeter backsplash that continues from the countertops.

Photo: Marc Mauldin Photography Inc.

29/08/2025

Cosentino Group, the global supplier of surfacing products for architecture and design, has announced the grand opening of three new “Cosentino City” showrooms in Dallas, Honolulu and Richmond, VA. https://bit.ly/3HJIkaG

CORAL GABLES, FL — Cosentino Group, the global supplier of surfacing products for architecture…

28/08/2025

Best Kitchen Over $250,000 – HONORABLE MENTION
2025 Kitchen & Bath Design Awards

LAURA O’BRIEN
O’Brien Harris, Chicago, IL

Laura O’Brien’s clients use their kitchen space for a multitude of activities and requested a multi-functional layout that integrated a family kitchen, breakfast room, homework area, mudroom and wet bar. While the 390-sq.-ft. room provided ample space, one of the challenges was to keep it from feeling cavernous, instead making it warm and inviting.

Keep reading and see more photos: https://bit.ly/41k8hV7

Photos: Tony Soluri, Soluri Photography

28/08/2025

The program, said the McLean, VA-based PMI, will provide networking opportunities, assistance in developing career and leadership skills and a platform to highlight the accomplishments of women PMI members, organizers announced. https://bit.ly/3V78Gqb

McLEAN, VA — Plumbing Manufacturers International, the trade association representing most of the nation’s…

28/08/2025

The new report, according to ISFA, offers an analysis of peer-reviewed medical research that examines the impacts of respirable crystalline silica, “equipping fabricators with actionable insights to improve workplace health and safety.” https://bit.ly/3HEMocg

INGOMAR, PA — The International Surface Fabricators Association (ISFA), in collaboration with the Natural…

27/08/2025

Showrooms are flying blind. The tariff chaos isn’t just about higher costs – it’s about the impossibility of running a business when the rules change almost daily. — Inside Today's Showroom by Tom Cohn

The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson recently captured our industry’s predicament perfectly: “In the past four…

26/08/2025

Confidence in the homebuilding and remodeling sectors remained on shaky ground at the midpoint of 2025, amid a cloudy economic outlook, tariff concerns and rising product and materials costs. Among the key statistics and forecasts released in recent weeks by government agencies, research firms and industry-related trade associations were the following...

Confidence in the homebuilding and remodeling sectors remained on shaky ground at the midpoint…

25/08/2025

Best Kitchen Over $250,000 – BRONZE
2025 Kitchen & Bath Design Awards

PRECISION CABINETS
Brentwood, CA

The objective for this kitchen, created by Precision Cabinets working with Fautt Homes, was to create a space that was highly functional yet visually refined. The space acts as the central area for daily living as well as the hub for large-scale entertaining.

Keep reading and see more photos: https://bit.ly/4oNTfB4

Photos: Douglas Johnson Photography