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Incorporating Televisions In Home Design

Plenty of gatherings are held in your home where décor is of the utmost importance, but you still desire the flexibility of having entertainment choices when the time is right. With today’s technologies, you can easily hide video screens and music speakers virtually anywhere, using three main techniques to hide televisions in these areas: mirror TVs, motorized lifts, and TV’s as woks of art.

Kitchen Design: Family Classic

“I felt like my designer really cared about my kitchen project and wanted it to be as beautiful as my husband and I did.” The result is a simple, yet distinctive kitchen, addressing all of the clients goals and is exactly what the client was hoping to achieve. The homeowners wanted more open space and a better traffic flow that would support a lot of people…

Kitchen Design: Room for Friends

This recent stunning kitchen remodeling project in Aurora / Naperville by Drury Design involved combining three rooms into one to create an ideal setting for entertaining with friends and family. Continue reading for all the details of this full kitchen redesign, from removing the walls to placing the wet bar, walk-in pantry and cooking hearth.

Kitchen Design: 21st Century Challenge

Here is a kitchen project that took inspiration from the client’s favorite restaurant – the design and materials were selected to create a rich urban feel.

Outdoor Kitchens in Chicago???

Should we limit our thinking about our backyard outdoor kitchen as only a charcoal grill and a patio table? Maybe not.

Outdoor kitchens are not spaces that we ordinarily design and provide for our clients. But after meeting with Mitch Slater, owner of Danver Stainless Steel Cabinetry located in Wallingford Connecticut, and an expert in outdoor kitchens, at a recent kitchen business conference we attended in Dallas, we were left wondering, not “why?”, but rather…”why not?”.

Kitchen Design: A Touch of Tuscany

After

Before
The Mission
To re-design and renovate the kitchen and dining room in this suburban Chicago townhome by combining the two spaces for more room for cooking and entertaining and create a “Tuscan” feel throughout.
“We wanted to utilize the limited space and create a custom kitchen; one that reflects our personalities and also to improve the functionality [...]

Green Design: Bright Ideas with Dimmers

Light dimmers are always a great idea for incorporating in renovations and new home design; whether they be individual dimmers or part of a programmed control system.  They allow you to control lighting for specific tasks, set moods for different occasions, and reduce energy consumption.
But did you know that lights alone contribute up to 20% [...]