Main Line Kitchen Design Trends Blog

At the bottom of the page is our list of the top ten tips for remodeling a kitchen in a new home. Contact us today to learn about our design process and why we get more 5 star reviews than any other kitchen cabinet dealer and design team in our service area. Congratulations! You just […]

In a word . . . Architects. Over the 25 plus years that I have been a kitchen designer there is no question that some of the worst kitchens that I have seen sold have also been the most expensive. Even the most expensive kitchen that I personally sold was a design that I was […]

I was surprised but not shocked when Wood-Mode Custom Cabinetry officially closed their doors and up to 2,000 Pennsylvania workers lost their jobs Monday afternoon. The unfortunate closure is not only a hardship for plant workers and management but also a blow to the regional cabinet dealers that sold Wood-Mode and their semi-custom cabinet line […]

The Return On Investment, abbreviated ROI, for a kitchen renovation is more complex that most homeowners and real estate professionals believe.

Blog first posted January 1, 2018 . Kitchens are where many of our memories take place. Even the simplest kitchen will host some of our best times and the warmest memories of friends and family. Here is a story written by my mother who passed away this fall about the simplest of kitchens and the […]

The 14th Annual Ardmore Library Kitchen Tour is taking place on Sunday, April 28th.  Main Line Kitchen Design is delighted and honored to support this very worthy local cause.  . This year, we will be featuring two kitchens and annual attendees will again meet my wife, Julie Meyer, at one of them.  . Both Julie […]

Customers often ask us whether they can donate or sell their old but in good condition cabinets, appliances, and fixtures. The answer is a most definite YES! For clients that would like to recycle and not waste materials that others might want, donating these lightly used materials to Habitat for Humanity is a great idea. […]

At Main Line Kitchen Design ninety percent of our customers come to us believing that they know the kitchen design that they would like. Customers are confident that they just need to shop around for cabinet lines, styles, and colors. Surprisingly the vast majority of our customers end up getting very different designs than what […]

Kosher kitchens are an interesting meeting between very specific traditions and what can be accomplished with technology to make adhering to those traditions more convenient and the resulting kitchens still efficient and easy to work in. Generally, the kitchen design process is  about making trade–offs between the pros and cons of each of the design elements. As all Main […]

Meticulous Details Lead to Tremendous Results   At Main Line Kitchen Design, we’ve seen our share of kitchens but we’ve never seen one like we recently saw in Iceland! Main Line Kitchen Design president Paul McAlary and his wife Julie Meyer traveled to the incredible country of Iceland where they experienced waterfalls, a glacier, a […]