Main Line Kitchen Design Trends Blog

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. Please go to our home page in the tabs above to […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]