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Check Out These Kitchen Related Quotes From Celebrities “Kitchens should be designed around what’s truly important—fun, food, and life.”—Chef/restaurateur Daniel Boulud . “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” ― W.C. Fields . “I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could […]

Homeowners often use home centers like Lowes and The Home Depot to design their kitchens and to buy cabinetry. I have often defended home centers as not a bad place to work with if you are designing a kitchen and you do a good job finding the most experienced home center designer in your area. […]

Main Line Kitchen Design does an analysis of the storage space advantage of frameless vs framed cabinetry. . Many customers select European frameless cabinetry over more classic framed cabinetry because they want additional storage. This isn’t surprising since the drive to maximize storage space in a kitchen is frequently the motivating factor for many kitchen […]

Kitchen and Bath Design News, the premier industry magazine for kitchen and bath designers and industry suppliers, featured 50 top innovators in the kitchen and bath industry in their October issue. Main Line Kitchen Design’s President Paul McAlary was selected as one of these top innovators.

Today, cabinets can be purchased online at prices as much as 20% below what cabinet dealers and showrooms sell them for. Some of the online cabinet sellers even make pretty well made cabinetry. So why would saving money and buying your cabinets online not make sense?

This is one of our favorite conversions. A high ceilinged barn in Villanova transformed into a understated and stately, light filled home. I love the tasteful choices and the elegant but not too formal furnishings. . Our avid blog readers might notice a cooktop and hood in front of a window that we will often […]

The Cabinet world is full of confusing information about the fumes new cabinetry can give off after installation. . Unfortunately the cabinet industry is not policed beyond a certain level and the companies that tout themselves better than industry standards are often less likely to be honest and reliable. This is because their claims are […]

The most valuable part of your kitchen renovation is the design of the kitchen itself. Professional kitchen designers understand that it takes a decade for anyone, no matter how talented, to become proficient at designing kitchens. And yet many people believe that coming up with the best design for a particular space and spending their […]

Customers often ask us how much a particular cabinet costs per linear foot. The answer is that cabinets are never sold by the linear foot and that the linear foot price you see for cabinets on kitchen displays inside home centers is intentionally misleading.

What’s the mistake amateur kitchen designers make the most often? The answer can be summed up with the old expression “Trying to put eight pounds of sausage in a six pound wrapper.” When you are not a talented and experienced kitchen designer often you will judge your design success by how much you can fit […]