Category: Designing a Kitchen

Accessorizing Your Kitchen Cabinets

Trends in kitchen cabinet accessories and hardware

Once you’ve gotten our kitchen cabinets all picked out, it’s time to accessorize. Kitchen cabinet accessories and hardware can add texture and drama to your kitchen.

Accessorizing your kitchen cabinets — Brass, copper, and gold are keeping it classy and classic in the kitchen.
Photo: Brass Waverly Cabinet Knob by Emtek

The smallest details can make the biggest impact

“The details are not the details. They make the design.” – Charles Eames.
The classic white kitchen is still the most common. Colors are muted and natural, but you don’t want your kitchen to be boring and sterile. With just a few small touches, you can take a timid kitchen design and add a punch of personality. Kitchen cabinet accessories can make a big impact on your entire kitchen design, in fact, they can give it a distinct character. Big geometrical knobs and pulls are making a big splash in kitchen design, like adding a big, bold, colorful piece of costume jewelry to a little black dress.

Keep it sassy

You can add personality to your kitchen with knobs and pulls in different unique shapes, colors, and textures.

Make it brassy

Brass hardware is taking over. Anything that is brass, copper, or gold is becoming increasingly popular in kitchen accessories. Brass, copper, and gold are perfect to continue the rustic kitchen trend, marrying glamor with simplistic and rustic charm. The shape of the knob will still be comfortable and functional, but the design will make your kitchen more interesting visually.

accessorize kitchen cabinets — Adding funky knobs to your kitchen cabinets can give it some personality.
Photo: Deco Crystal Knob by Emtek

Have it glassy

New materials in knobs, pulls, and hardware is glass and crystal. They are sleek, simple, elegant, and will sparkle in the sunlight. Who doesn’t love a little sparkle in their kitchen? It’s fun, simple, elegant, and lux.

Fun accessories and hardware for your kitchen

The Kitchen Showcase can help you design your dream kitchen from the cabinets to the accessories. Find inspiration for your hardware, knobs, and pulls to add that final touch of glamor and personality to your kitchen.

Preventing Your White Kitchen Cabinets from Fading to Yellow

A tested and true kitchen trend is custom white cabinets. No matter the style of your kitchen, white cabinets will bring light and life to your design. Because for many the kitchen is the heart of the home, sunlight and cleanliness are important. White kitchen cabinets are both clean and bright, making your kitchen a place where people will love to gather. But, white cabinets need to be properly maintained. If not, they can quickly fade and turn yellow. Here’s how you keep your kitchen whites from turning yellow.

Keeping your white cabinets white

Keeping white cabinets from turning yellow. — Keep white cabinets out of direct sunlight to prevent them from turning yellow.

To make a kitchen feel warm and inviting and useful you need plenty of sunlight and a functional space to cook. Unfortunately, those are the two things that also threatened your white cabinets. Yes, it is one of nature’s cruel jokes. Cooking and sunlight can make your white cabinets turn yellow. And, not a pretty bright and happy yellow, but a dirty, unpleasant, sickly yellow. The good news is, with a little maintenance, you can keep your white cabinets white.

Just the right amount of sunlight

Protecting your white cabinets from sun damage is a balancing act. You don’t want to block out all the sun, but you also don’t want the full rays of the sun scorching your cabinets all day long. When you design your kitchen, work with your designer to figure out where the most sun is going to shine, and then hang your cabinets in places where they won’t be in direct sunlight all the time. Of course, this isn’t always possible. If you have sun coming from all angles, then thin drapes can give your cabinets the sun protection they need to stay white.

Keeping white cabinets white — Wipe down white cabinets after cooking to remove grease.

Home cooking can turn your white cabinets yellow

Did you know that when the sweet aromas of your home cooking go wafting through the home, it is actually tiny grease particles in flight? Yeah, that doesn’t sound very appetizing, but, it is important to know because these little grease particles will land on every surface. If you allow these grease particles to sit on your white cabinets, then they will soon appear yellowish and dirty.

Regular maintenance keeps white cabinets white

Make it a habit to wipe down kitchen cabinets after cooking. Or, on a regular basis. Protect your white cabinets to keep your dream kitchen fresh, clean, beautiful, and white.
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A Beautiful, Stylish, and Practical Kitchen Island

A kitchen is more than just a place to cook your meals; it’s a place to hang out with family or with friends. At TKS, we don’t want you to have to limit the number of people who can hang in your kitchen. We want to help you design a kitchen that is fit for a community, a place for cooking and for catching up. A place for eating and having conversations. A place for your wok and a place for you to work. Before we get too caught up in alliterations, let’s talk kitchen islands and creating a beautiful and practical kitchen.

A central multi-functional kitchen furniture

Every well-equipped kitchen should have its island that is big enough to take charge of your next school bake sale, all while your kids are hanging out doing homework and waiting to lick the cake batter off of the spoon.
A kitchen island is a statement piece for your kitchen, but it will also serve as a functional piece of furniture for the communal and multi-functional kitchen. The island can stand out stylistically from the rest of your cabinetry, either in color or texture. However, the size of your island depends on how you intend to use it, and how many people intend to use it at a time.

Customizing your island

Besides a beautiful countertop to adorn your island, you can customize your island to create functional storage all around to meet all of the requirements you have. There can be spaces for kitchenware and utensils, towels, and china, but you should also take into consideration that someone will need to plug in an iPad or a laptop while they are working and you are prepping the dinner.

A kitchen island should be flexible, and working with a designer to customize your kitchen island to match the needs of your family and your lifestyle, as well as your style, is the only way to get exactly what you want.

Design your dream kitchen with The Kitchen Showcase in Denver

Our designers are brilliant at helping clients design the perfect kitchen, from the cabinets to the counters to the kitchen island. We’ll help you blend the latest design trends and tricks to make your kitchen both functional and fabulous.
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Custom Cabinets For Oddly Shaped Spaces and Floor Plans

Not every home is made up of neat little rooms with easy to fit furniture and cabinets. Some homes have rooms with quirky angles or tiny rooms with odd measurements. For oddly shaped rooms, factory-made cabinets won’t work. When you remodel an oddly shaped room, the only way to go is with custom-tailored cabinets.

Finding cabinets that fit each room

Custom cabinets Colorado — Get custom cabinets to fit into a kitchen with odd shapes or other obstacles, like roof beams and pillars.

It’s usually the quirky little details that give a home character. However, finding furniture and cabinets that fit tight spaces, odd angles, and other obstructions like roof beams and columns can be a never-ending tale (and more often than not – with no happy ending). And just because a room is shaped weirdly, doesn’t mean that you don’t want to make the room functional, especially if we’re talking about a kitchen or a bathroom.

Remodeling challenges

There are many challenges when you remodel a kitchen or bathroom. But the biggest challenge is finding the right cabinets and countertops for an oddly shaped room. You need to think about creating storage space, as well as a workspace. And, you want to keep a good flow in the room so that it becomes an enjoyable space. The kitchen is especially challenging because it serves so many functions. A kitchen is more than just a kitchen, it’s a place for cooking, working, entertaining, and family time.

Custom cabinets and countertops

Get custom cabinets to fit around awkward angles in your kitchen.

Thankfully, with custom cabinets and countertops, you can remodel any shape or room, tight spaces, tall spaces, and all types of floor plans. When you get custom cabinets and countertops, the product will be built to fit the room, so you don’t have to make the room fit around generic one-size-fits-all cabinets. Because, as we all know, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all when it comes to cabinets.

Remodel an oddly (or any) shaped kitchen in Colorado

The Kitchen Showcase is the number one place in Colorado to remodel your home from start to finish. We’ve got all the leading brands and products that can be customized to fit your space. Our designers can help you plan and remodel any floor plan, turning an awkward kitchen into a dream kitchen.
Stop by our showroom to talk to a design expert and get inspiration for your next remodel.

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Finding an Interior Designer to Design your Dream Home

Visiting a kitchen showroom can give you great insights into styles, trends, and cost, but it can still be overwhelming. Just because it looks good in the showroom doesn’t mean that it will work for your home or your lifestyle. That is why our services include working with a professional and skilled interior design expert. While you’re researching interior design trends, take a minute to browse through our designers to see if there’s someone that catches your eye. Here’s what you should be looking for to get paired with a designer from The Kitchen Showcase so you can get started on designing your dream home.

Choosing an Interior Designer

The first thing you need to look for in an interior designer is a similar palette and style. Check out all of our designers to find the one that shares a similar aesthetic to you. Of course, all of our designers are versatile, so they will work from your likes and dislikes to create something that is custom designed for you. Another important aspect is to have a great rapport with your designer and to figure that out, you’ll need to meet.

Product Knowledge

There are so many products, materials, and styles to choose from and it’s important to work with someone who understands the pros and cons of each. Find a designer that has excellent knowledge of all products from cabinets, countertops, to tiny knobs and pulls. Every detail of a home remodel is important. Find a designer that is detail-oriented and knowledgable about all aspects of the industry.

Compatibility

Seeing designers work will give you great insight into their style and skill, but you shouldn’t be afraid to ask questions when you meet. You want to work with a designer that listens to your wants and concerns.

Find a designer that is compatible with your style and has excellent product knowledge.

A great designer will blend functionality and trends to make the best of the room and space that they are working with. They should also be up to date on all the latest trends and styles to give you the most up to date information.

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We have assembled the “Best of the Best” so you can be confident you will get the expertise needed to make your project go as smooth as possible.

Mixing Textures for an Edgy Kitchen Design

There’s something to be said for a shiny new kitchen. However, that doesn’t mean that you want all your materials to shine literally. It’s easy to get caught up on one single surface when designing a kitchen, but mixing textures in your kitchen design will give it a bit of an edge.

Kitchen showroom in Centennial, Colorado — Using contrasting textures, like wood and metal in the same design will give your kitchen an edge.

Avoid Using Only Glossy Surfaces

It can be easy to get caught up in glossy finishes. After all, they’re so pretty. Glossy cupboard finishes, shiny appliances, and polished stone countertops are a classic choice but think about adding a few matte textures and design elements to break up the shiny ones.
Playing with texture will make the design more attractive. Modern kitchen design trends are all using more matte finishes, as well as varying up textures.
Of course, you have to be smart about your choices. Because too many textures will overwhelm the design. You need just the right amount of variance to make it attractive and cool.

Mixing Textures

Be creative when designing your kitchen. Make sure it reflects your personality, and don’t be afraid to play, especially when it comes to texture. Adding matching and contrasting design elements, like matte metal cabinets mixed with classic wood elements, or choosing a matte finish on the cabinets but leaving the appliances shiny, can give your kitchen an architectural design feel.

Rustic and Modern

mix and match textures and surfaces — Mix contrasting textures in your kitchen design

Just because mixing textures is a modern design trend doesn’t mean that you can’t add rustic elements into a modern kitchen.
Exposing brick or natural wood can add a rustic element to break up the modern design features. And, having an exposed brick backsplash or allowing the wood beams in your home to show can add warmth to an edgy kitchen.

Kitchen Design Showcase in Denver

Visit our kitchen showroom in Centennial to see first hand how playing with textures in a kitchen can enhance the design, make your kitchen more modern, and more interesting. Our designers can help you work with the textures and materials that speak to you, putting them together into a cohesive and functional kitchen.
We’ll know when to go big, and when to reign it in, so that your kitchen isn’t one big jumble of matching and contrasting elements. Come to the showroom and talk to a kitchen designer about your kitchen remodel project.

Making Home and Kitchen Design Easy for Builders in Colorado

When you are a builder and working for clients, nothing will make a bad impression like going over budget and over time. At The Kitchen Showcase (TSK) in Colorado, we make builders look good to their clients. We don’t just cure kitchen envy, we cure vendor envy. To top it all off, we also design great-looking kitchens.

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Builders need vendors they can trust

Building a home is a big responsibility that often involves higher costs. You want your clients to be impressed with the entire process. Because you are building a home for someone else, it’s important that every element says something about your client. Letting your client be a part of every step, especially when it comes to the interior design, will build trust and make you very popular with clients.

Involving your client every step of the way

Builders love TKS because we always produce great work and we finish on time and on budget. The best part is that your clients can come to our kitchen showroom and see for themselves all the great options that they can choose from. They’ll get a better understanding of the materials and the effect they will have. Plus, they’ll get to talk to professional kitchen and home designers who can help guide them through the process.

On-time and on budget

Designing a home — Clients can visit our showroom and see products firsthand before making a choice.

Once all the decisions have been made and all the products ordered, your client just wants you to finish so they can begin their lives in their new home. When you work with TKS, we respect your time and your budget. Getting your products from TKS means that you’ll get everything delivered on time so that you can finish on time. No matter the budget, we’ve got quality products to make stunning looking kitchens, baths, and homes.

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When you order products for a home from many different vendors, you’re increasing your chances of something going wrong. TKS has top brands in all budget ranges and styles in one big showroom. When you work with TKS, you only have to shop in one place for everything you need. It’s the most cost-effective and efficient way to shop for a home. The more efficient we are, the sooner your client can move into a beautiful new home.

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Most Efficient Way to Plan and Design Your Dream Kitchen or Bath

Two major phases can be daunting in a remodel project. The first is the planning and designing phase, and the second is dealing with the hassle and stress of living through the construction phase. With the help of our showroom and professional designers, we have the experience to make both phases go smoothly.

Planning and designing a dream kitchen or bath

When you plan and design a dream kitchen or bathroom, you have to start by visualizing the whole room. Picturing what the finished room will look like can be overwhelming. There are so many little details that make up a functional and fashionable kitchen and bath. You have to choose the furnishings, as well as the materials and everything has to be cohesive. Everything has to work together, both aesthetically and functionally.

kitchen & bathroom remodeling in Centennial — Our designers will show you the best options for your vision, so you can feel confident in every decision you make.

Seeing the big picture

Our designers will help you turn your vision into reality by showing you the best options. When you work with The Kitchen Showcase, you get to see, touch, and experience your vision by creating a space and design plan to help you visualize the final product. You can walk through our kitchen showrooms to see and touch every material and style choices, so you feel confident in the decisions you make.

Construction phase

Our services don’t end with our showroom; we want to make the entire process hassle-free, including the construction phase. When you order the various products for your kitchen and bath remodel, our designers will layout a timeline for when products will be delivered. Having a timeframe for the delivery and construction phase will allow you to plan ahead, making the necessary adjustments.

Remodeling kitchen — Our professional staff will take care of you from start to finish and help you create a beautiful home for your investment.

Kitchen cabinets typically take the longest to be delivered, depending on the brand and if they are custom. To make things easier on you, we will receive and store your products and coordinate the best time to have them delivered to your home. While in our possession, your products will be handled by professionals to make sure that there is no damage.

Take the stress out of your next remodeling project with the help of The Kitchen Showcase.

Designing a Kitchen With Purpose and Appeal

3 of the Most Popular Kitchen Styles Today

Everyone dreams of designing their own home. You get a chance to make every room fully functional and an accurate representation of you and your family. Since the kitchen is the heart of the home, the design should be thoughtful so that your choices can get pumped through the entire house, creating a cohesive, warm, and inspiring feeling.

Designing your dream kitchen

Avoid kitchen design mistakes — Customize the kitchen to fit the space and every nuanced angle.

When you set out to create your dream kitchen, you need to think about your objectives. You want to allow yourself to be creative, but you also have to think about functionality and efficiency. The kitchen needs to be usable, as well as visually appealing.

Kitchen objectives

When you use your kitchen, there has to be a natural flow taking you from each task to the next. The right tools need to be near the area where they are most likely to be used. Start with the kitchen triangle, and then think about how you would naturally move about your kitchen for the most functional layout. Make sure you give yourself enough space and think about what other functions your kitchen needs to provide.

The kitchen is more than a place to eat; it’s a place to hang out. Be smart about how you utilize the space so that you incorporate the needs of every family member. Include every member of the family in the design process so that everyone’s needs are represented.

Choosing the right gray for your kitchen — Your design should appeal to your aesthetic and not be too trendy.

Collect inspiration

Find inspiration from magazines, kitchen showrooms, and your friends, neighbors, and family. You may see things that you didn’t realize you were missing. Visiting a showroom gives you the advantage of seeing kitchen design up close and personal. You can walk around in the kitchen to see how well it suits your kitchen objectives.

Avoid Being Too Trendy

Trends change with the seasons; you want your kitchen design to stand the test of time. Look for trends that increase function and efficiency, but try to avoid too many stylistic trends. If a kitchen is too stylistically trendy, you may get sick of it as soon as that trend is replaced with another. Blend your own personal aesthetic with a few trends to get the right balance. Make sure you always design for you and your family, not to live up to fleeing interior design trends.

Visit our kitchen showroom in Denver, Colorado, for more kitchen design inspiration.

The Stone Cold Truth About Soapstone Countertops

The gray trend isn’t slowing down. It’s a beautiful neutral color, and it appears in a lot of materials naturally. In the kitchen, using natural stone countertops will give the grays an organic feel. Soapstone is a natural stone that is usually dark gray and is a beautiful alternative to granite countertops.

Soapstone countertops

We’re always talking about granite and quartz, but soapstone has been around for ages. Many historic homes will use soapstone countertops. The dark gray natural stone color of soapstone has allowed this material to transition to the modern kitchen, but still keeping the rustic qualities of a classic home.

Remodeling your kitchen in Denver — Silky smooth, dark gray soapstone countertops

Characteristics of soapstone

Soapstone has a smooth and silky surface, which makes it a great natural stone countertop material. As the soapstone ages, a beautiful patina will appear, giving it a bit more texture and character. It will give your modern kitchen a nod to antique and historic homes, while still maintaining it’s contemporary flair.

Color

The color of soapstone is a dark gray, and as it ages and settles, the color will become a bit darker. That is important to consider when you are designing your kitchen. If you are trying to match other gray tones to your soapstone countertops, be aware that the original color, when first installed, will turn a shade (or half a shade) darker over time.

Visit a kitchen showroom to compare countertop materials.

Heat and scratches

Since it is natural stone, it is quite resistant to heat and to stains. However, the smooth surface can become scratched over time if you work directly on the soapstone countertop. The good news is that any scratch can be sanded, a bit like sanding and refinishing hardwood floors. Of course, just like hardwood floors, a few scratches and some wear and tear can add to the appeal of the countertop.

Visit our kitchen showroom in Denver to check out all our countertops.