Category: Designing a Kitchen

Keep Your Kitchen Cabinets Simple

The biggest kitchen trend is to make practical use of every space in your kitchen. Of course, incorporating your personal style is a trend that is never going away. You want to design a kitchen that is practical, but never boring. The cabinets are the most important design trend, and lately, the simpler your kitchen cabinets, the better.

Kitchen design trends — Simple clean lines and flat-panel custom cabinets are a big trend in kitchen design.

Custom kitchen cabinets

Because every kitchen is different, in order to properly utilize the space, you need to get your cabinets customized. Custom kitchen cabinets are the practical choice, but when you have something customized, you also have a chance to throw a bit of your personality into the design. If there are pieces in your kitchen that you want to be highlighted, have cabinets, shelves, or storage units specifically made to show it off.

Glass panel cabinets doors

To show off your favorite decorative pieces or the “good china,” look to add a few glass panel cabinet doors. With the right lighting inside the cabinets, a simple cabinet becomes a showpiece and something interesting to draw the eye.

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You have to be strategic in throwing in personal design choices. A burst of color here and there, an oversized ornamental piece, or a wall full of family photos is a great touch. However, you don’t want to make the kitchen too busy with personal touches. To minimize the design and leave more room for your personality, we’re seeing a big trend towards simple, straight-line, flat panel or slab panel kitchen cabinets.

Modern kitchen design trends — Add a pop of color to break up the neutral color scheme.

Two-tone neutral color scheme

We’re also seeing that the neutral color schemes such as whites, nudes, grays, and blues are still trending. By keeping the overall color scheme fairly simple and neutral, you once again have a little more room to play with a few funky features. Frame some bright colorful drawings from the kids to add a burst of color, or better yet, choose a kitchen island that is a bright contrasting color to the rest of the kitchen. You want to give you kitchen texture and layers, without making it too busy.

Denver kitchen design experts

If you’re in the beginning stages of designing your dream kitchen, stop by The Kitchen Showcase for inspiration. Our designers can show you all the latest trends. Plus, we’ll get to know a bit about the space we’re dealing with, as well as your personal style and taste. Together. we’ll come up with an interior design for your dream kitchen.

Upgrading and Modernizing Your Kitchen

Designing your dream kitchen

The kitchen is the first place that a family will spend their renovation budget. After all, the kitchen is and always will be the heart of the home. However, with the increase in products available and technology changing every day, keeping up with the latest kitchen trends can be overwhelming. Work with a kitchen design expert to design a kitchen that is both modern, warm, personal, and functional.

The first step to designing a kitchen

The first step to remodeling a kitchen isn’t to talk about that great countertop you saw on Houzz or the color of your cabinets. The first step to a kitchen remodel is to figure out how you like to use your kitchen. Are you an avid chef who loves to experiment and cook big meals for friends and family? Do you like to entertain in the kitchen? Will you need counter space for chopping and homework? Figuring out how you want to use the kitchen will give us a starting point for how to best utilize the space.

The second step to designing a kitchen

The next step is to think about function. You are limited by the space of your kitchen, so you’ll need to plan out the space to give you everything you need while still maintaining function. In a small space, you may have to give up on a few ideas. If you cram too many ideas into a small space, you won’t have time to move, and your kitchen becomes uncomfortable and impractical. The best kitchen design will maximize the efficiency, regardless of how much space you have to work with.

Modern kitchen design — Flat-front cabinetry is trending in the modern kitchen design.

Modern kitchen trends

We used to just worry about where to place the stove, the sink, and the refrigerator. However, the modern kitchen has many more appliances to consider. We’re seeing a lot more kitchen design move towards creating separate workstations that each serve a function. Your kitchen becomes like a mini version of your house. You’ll have different sections carved out for various tasks like cooking, cleaning, eating, and just hanging out.
Flat-front cabinetry is also trending in modern kitchen design. By choosing a warm chocolate color for your cabinets, you can give your cool modern kitchen a bit of warmth.

Customized cabinets and storage spaces

Every kitchen is different, and every homeowner has unique taste and requirements. Many of the products that we offer can be customized to meet the needs of each client. Custom cabinets and storage spaces are a huge trend. Instead of one-size-fits-all, custom cabinets will be tailored specifically to fit your kitchen.

Kitchen design experts in Denver

We know that there are many choices in products for your kitchen, but we are selective in the brands that we offer our customers. We offer the best products for your kitchen to meet every taste, style, and budget. For inspiration, stop by The Kitchen Showcase and talk to a design expert about your dream kitchen.

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Tips for Brightening Your Kitchen

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Dream Kitchen Design Tips

A kitchen should feel open and bright without feeling clinical. When you plan a remodel of your kitchen, try these design tips to help you bring in a lot of light, and make your kitchen feel fresh and sunny.

Designing your dream kitchen in Colorado — A splash of contrasting dark color in a bright white kitchen can make it feel dynamic and vibrant.

A white kitchen will never go out of style

White is still the most common color scheme for a kitchen, but you want to make sure that everything isn’t a stark white, making your kitchen feel like a hospital room. You want your kitchen to feel clean, not sterile. Bright, not stark. Dazzling, not blinding.
If you are going with crisp white walls and cabinetry, break it up with another splash of bright color, like a red or a yellow. You can also pick a countertop that is dark chocolate or black to break up the white.

Traditional Kitchen remodel in Denver - The Kitchen Showcase — White cabinetry for a kitchen is timeless and classic.
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Simplify your color scheme to make your kitchen seem bigger and brighter

Be sure not to mix too many colors, as a busy kitchen will feel cramped and cluttered. Mixing in a few deep dark colors in a few strategic places will make your kitchen feel sleek, modern, and dynamic.
If you are working with darker surfaces in your kitchen, think about texture. Pick materials and texture that will reflect the sunlight. It’s like using mirrors to create the illusion of more space. Sunlight reflecting off of a few surfaces can magnify and maximize the natural sunlight, making your kitchen feel more vibrant, as opposed to muted textures that will swallow the light.
If you have a small area to begin with, think about having open shelves instead of closed cabinets. Shelves will leave the back wall exposed, creating more space, as opposed to cabinets with doors that can take up a lot of precious space in your kitchen.

Traditional kitchen design in Denver — Break up the white walls and countertops with a darker color for your kitchen island and cabinetry.

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For more dream kitchen design tips, talk to our design professionals. We’ll help you find the best cabinetry and the best countertops for your space and your budget.

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Flat-Front Cabinets are Modernizing the Country Kitchen

We’re blending trends here at The Kitchen Showcase. Although the country style kitchen is still one of the favorites for Colorado homeowners, we’re seeing many people look for ways to infuse a bit of modern design. The new country kitchen is a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll.

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The first step to modernizing the country style kitchen is to customize your cabinetry. Choose a style of wood that is natural and rustic to keep it country, but make the design clean and minimalistic to bring in the modern. The sleekest new style in kitchen cabinetry is the flat-front or slab-panel cabinets.

Flat-front kitchen cabinets

The flat-front cabinets have the raised border, but the center will be recessed. The simplicity of this cabinet style will make the country kitchen a little bit cooler and refreshing. However, the flat-front cabinet is a little baby step towards really giving your charming country kitchen a full modern make-over.

Slab-panel kitchen cabinets

Slap panel cabinets for contemporary kitchen — Bring a little Scandinavian minimalism to your warm country kitchen with slab-panel cabinets.

If you really want to make a statement and really modernize your kitchen, you should take a look at slab-panel cabinets. This ultra-sophisticated cabinet style is clean and minimalistic, giving your kitchen a Scandinavian-country hybrid.

Best of both worlds

Depending on the rest of the materials that you use in the kitchen, mixing warmer tones and more contemporary style choices, you can have the best of both worlds.

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At The Kitchen Showcase in Colorado, we’ve got a large selection of cabinets. We are picky about the brands that we represent, making sure that we only deal with brands that are proven to be the best in class. Our designers can help you choose the right style of cabinetry to design your dream kitchen. Whether your style is country, traditional, transitional, modern, or a combination, we’ll help you find the right products, materials, and accessories.

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Why Customers Prefer The Kitchen Showcase

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Have you ever tried to assemble new furniture from IKEA, or set up your DIRECTV, or help your kid build that Lego castle? It’s harder than it looks. It makes for laugh out loud scenes in sitcoms, but it makes for hair-pulling temper tantrums in real life. When you plan and design your kitchen or bath with us, we’ll see your project through from start to finish, including assembly and installation of all your products.

Choosing a kitchen design company

It takes time and careful planning to pick out the right cabinetry, countertops, accessories, and hardware for your new kitchen or bathroom, but designing a kitchen or bath takes more than just helping you find the perfect island or picking out a color palate. When you chose a design expert, make sure that they will see the project through until the very end.
Imagine you spend all that time and money working with experts, only to find that everything you picked out is randomly shipped to your home at various times and that you’re expected to install everything yourself. Perhaps you’re stuck waiting at your home all day for a product to arrive with the installation crew. The reason people choose The Kitchen Showcase is due to our industry knowledge and expertise, competitive prices, top of the line products, and attention to detail from planning, to delivery and installation, to the final inspection.

Delivery, installation, service

We even go beyond the final inspection! Should anything happen, something goes wrong, or something isn’t to your complete satisfaction, our team is on standby to help you and support you in your time of need. Our customer service is our best feature:

Hand craften wooden kitchen counter tops — We have top of the line counters and cabinets and are constantly educating ourselves on the latest trends in kitchen and bathroom design.
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We call you
We adapt to your timeline
Treating your products with the utmost care
Professional installation
Full-time service department
Seeing your project to its conclusion and beyond
One-year service warranty

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For more information on our products and services, visit thekitchenshowcase.com, or start by getting a complimentary quote on cabinets and countertops.

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Bringing the Kitchen Outdoors

‘Tis the season for BBQs and backyard parties. However, homeowners aren’t just looking to get a great grill and some patio furniture; they’re looking to take the BBQ area to the next level by designing a fully functioning outdoor kitchen.

Design considerations for an outdoor kitchen

Design an outdoor kitchen in Denver — Take your grill area to the next level by designing a fully functional outdoor kitchen.

The demand for functional space has made the outdoor kitchen a growing trend. When you are BBQing and entertaining in your garden, it’s really annoying to have to keep running back and forth from your kitchen to get supplies or finish your cooking. You end up missing out on the whole party. Homeowners are getting fed up and have started to look for ways to turn the BBQ area into a fully functional outdoor kitchen.

Planning the layout

When you design an indoor kitchen, the walls will naturally help you determine the layout of the kitchen, as well as create boundaries to help define the space. In an outdoor kitchen, you need to define the space with your layout. The shape and structure of your counters are going to define the space of your outdoor kitchen. An L shape or a U, depending on how much counter space you are going for, are the most classic shapes of an outdoor kitchen.

Placement of appliances

How you design your outdoor kitchen will have a lot to do with where there is sun and where there is shade. When you are placing appliances, like the refrigerator, you want to make sure that it is not going to be sitting in the glaring sunlight. If you don’t have a place for shade, you’ll want to incorporate ways of creating shade into your outdoor kitchen design.

Grill placement

The grill is often the focal point in an outdoor kitchen. Think about the perfect place for the grill and then design your outdoor kitchen from there. Make sure you don’t place the grill so that you end up standing with our back to your guests the whole time.

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Durable materials

The biggest consideration you have to make when you design an outside kitchen is the materials you’re going to use. For the casework and the countertops, stone, quartz, and granite are great options. Not only are they beautiful, but these materials are tough and can stand up to the elements.

Water and electric

There are also practical considerations when you design an outdoor kitchen. You’re going to want to charge your phone and plug in a blender, so make sure you add electrical outlets. You need water, so be sure to plan the layout of the kitchen accordingly to sources of electricity and water.

Everything you need for your outdoor kitchen

The Kitchen Showcase (TKS) only carries proven brands that lead their price category for quality and value. We can help you design an outdoor kitchen that matches your style and your budget. With TKS, you get higher quality and better-looking products at incredibly competitive rates. Your neighbors will be peeking over the garden fence at your new outdoor kitchen and wonder how you did it.

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New Year, New Kitchen

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Right underneath “go to the gym” and “get organized,” you have a faint dream of finally remodeling your kitchen in 2017. You know you want a new kitchen. The holidays proved just how dysfunctional your current kitchen is, how inefficient and in desperate need of an upgrade it is. However, it’s hard to know where to start. Achieving your new kitchen New Year’s resolution is a lot like achieving all of your other resolutions; you ask for help from an expert. We can’t help you get those six-pack abs, but we can help you design the perfect kitchen that is fashionable, functional, and affordable.
So, when you’re done with your CrossFit and your Soul Cycle and your Bikram Yoga classes, head to our playground and get inspiration for your new kitchen.

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We’ve got a showroom filled with all the latest in kitchen cabinets, countertops, hardware, and accessories to create a completely new kitchen. We are highly selective in choosing the products we recommend, so no matter your budget, we always give you quality products from which to choose.

Custom cabinets cost more but may last longer

You may save a little money on semi-custom cabinets, but choosing custom cabinetry and casework for your kitchen not only means that you get cabinets that are built exactly for your and your kitchen, but custom cabinets are handcrafted with skill and precision, giving you a long-lasting product. Custom cabinets may cost a little more upfront, but they will last much longer. Sometimes, it’s worth it to spend money up front and get the highest quality, rather than saving now but having to replace your cabinets much sooner.

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For inspiration for your new kitchen, come and see our products up close. Your kitchen should be a reflection of your and your family and should last for many years. Don’t rely on a photo online or from a magazine; come and check out our products for yourself before making a decision.
Achieving your new kitchen New Year’s resolution is easy when you work with the designers at The Kitchens Showcase in Denver, Colorado.

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Holiday Hours at The Kitchen Showcase

Like most people, we’ll be closing the shop and heading home to our own kitchens to prepare a big holiday meal for our families, or maybe we’re heading to someone else’s kitchen, nibbling on snacks and watching football while someone else slaves in the kitchen. Whatever the holiday season has in store for you, you can almost be certain that the kitchen is going to play a major role. So, while we don’t have time to remodel our kitchen days before the holidays, we can warn you about common Thanksgiving and holiday mistakes that people make when it comes to prepping, cooking, and serving.

Remodel your kitchen in Denver — We can’t fix your kitchen before Thanksgiving, but we can point out common cooking mistakes to help your cooking go smoothly.

Holiday hours for The Kitchen Showcase in Denver:

Thanksgiving November 24th – 25th CLOSED

Christmas, December 23rd – 30th CLOSED

New Year’s, December 31st, 2016 – January 2nd, 2017 CLOSED

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Holiday cooking mistakes

The three biggest mistakes that people make when cooking their holiday meals are:

Not buying enough food – Mainly, not buying enough turkey or whatever protein you eat for the holidays.
Not thawing your turkey – The larger the turkey (or other protein), the longer it needs to thaw. Thawing a turkey could take a few days in the refrigerator, so clear some space and get that turkey out of the freezer in good time to be ready for Thanksgiving.
Not planning the prepping and the cooking – There are a lot of components that need to be planned meticulously so that everything is finished at the same time, or you could end up with cold gravy, an undercooked turkey, and an overcooked string bean casserole.

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There is a lot to be thankful for over the holidays. We are thankful to have helped so many clients design and install their dream kitchen, along with being able to give back to our community whenever possible. We are also thankful to be able to take time away from work to enjoy with our friends and family for the holidays. However, as soon as the turkey has been digested and the eggnog has run out, we’ll be back at our Denver kitchen showroom to help you design a stylish, personal, and functional kitchen.
If cooking for the holidays made you realize that your kitchen needs an upgrade or a remodel, or you got some serious kitchen envy while visiting your favorite aunt for the holidays, our designers are here to help you make your kitchen dreams a reality.

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The Hottest New Kitchen Faucets

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When we design a kitchen for our clients, we design right down to the smallest detail. Everything is important when you’re designing your dream kitchen, and the type of faucet you choose can have a big impact on the final product.

The faucet should flow with your kitchen design

Denver kitchen designers — Bronze faucets are right on trend for a contemporary country kitchen.

Kitchen design trends are leaning towards taking the old country kitchen and giving in clean lines and a smooth aesthetic. We don’t think about the faucet a lot when we’re thinking about how to design a kitchen, but the faucet is usually front and center, so it’s important to pick the right one so that it doesn’t throw off the aesthetic.
We’re seeing a lot of grays in modern kitchen design, so switching your faucet from the classic shiny silver metal to a matte black is a bold statement in your kitchen. It’s the perfect way to get a touch of country in a modern kitchen.
If black is too bold of a statement, think about getting a faucet in a warmer color, like golden browns, rose, and champagne. Your kitchen should be a place where people feel welcome and comfortable. Soft, earthy tones can help you achieve that.

Match your pots and pans

Think about what else you’re going to have on display in your kitchen. Are you hiding everything behind custom kitchen cabinets, or do you have all of your pots and pans hanging above your kitchen island? Try to keep a complimentary color palate throughout your kitchen. You don’t want it to be too busy, and you don’t want your faucet to stand out like a sore thumb because you forgot to consider the whole kitchen design. The small details, like choosing the right faucet, are what gives your kitchen personality.

Faucets are getting smarter and more functional

Hands-free, multiple spray functions, and being able to pull out and pull down your faucet is another way to make your kitchen more functional. Faucets are getting smarter and more sanitary – two very important facets of kitchen design.

Denver kitchen designers

Our designers are always looking for the latest trends in kitchen design. If you’re thinking of remodeling your kitchen or designing a brand new kitchen, stop by our Kitchen Showcase in Denver. Our designers can help you pick out everything from custom cabinetry to the faucet for your kitchen sink.

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Every Shade of Gray for Your Kitchen and Bath

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If you’re getting ready to renovate our kitchen and bath, think gray, black, and matte for contemporary charm.

Grays are replacing natural wood cabinetry

Both the kitchen and the bathroom should be light and vibrant and welcoming, but working with shades of white is seen and done. For a refreshing new look for your kitchen and bath, look for cabinetry in gray and silver colors. Gray makes a little more of a statement than white, and it still goes with all other colors and textures. Grays can go from almost white, to almost black, giving you more than 50 shades of gray to play with to express your personality.
The perfect shade of gray can make your kitchen and bath look expensive, without being flashy.

Cast iron hardware and black appliances

Since the return of the rustic kitchen, and the new trend towards gray cabinetry and walls we see a trend toward country chic matte black hardware. Accent your grays with cast iron knobs, pulls, hinges, towel bars, toiletry holders, and more.
Similarly, you’ll be seeing a lot more black or dark appliances in the kitchen. A black oven is like a modern day take on having a cast iron pot bubbling over an open fire.

The added beauty of matte colors

Contemporary Kitchen four — Matte gray colors are contemporary country chic.

Matte colors, as opposed to glossy, have the added benefit of hiding dirt and oil better. Family homes with kids will appreciate matte colors being able to hide the inevitable oily finger and handprints of kids running about the house.

Express your personal style

Just because it’s trendy, doesn’t mean it suits your style. Personal style is the biggest trend of all. It is what keeps us innovative and always looking for new ways to help our clients design their dream kitchen and bath.

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The Kitchen Showcase in Denver is committed to offering best-in-class hardware and accessories for a range of budgets. You can rest assured that you’ll find quality options at competitive prices when you choose The Kitchen Showcase.

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