Main Line Kitchen Design was founded in 2010 during the US kitchen cabinet industry’s crushing downturn due to the collapse of the housing market and recession. In response to the downturn, owner Paul McAlary envisioned a new business model that relied on the internet supplying leads and reduced overhead using selling centers, sample doors and finishes. Instead of maintaining a showroom open to the public, Main Line Kitchen Design operates in an office building, essentially invisible to passing traffic.
Tag: kitchen renovation
Reducing the stress of kitchen remodeling.
Main Line Kitchen Design provides ways to reduce the stress homeowners feel during kitchen renovations.
A kitchen design ethics lesson from a past July 4th
Placing ethical kitchen design before sales is the mark of a good kitchen designer.
On this July 4th I found this blog from a past July 4th, 2013, particularly relevant.
On this July 4th I found this blog from a past July 4th, 2013, particularly relevant.
JULY 4TH 2013 had fireworks in the sky and some on the web when many kitchen designers disagreed vehemently with each other on a LinkedIn debate. The question that got everyone up in arms?
Would you allow or have you EVER allowed a customer to make a HUGE mistake?
Calls with Paul: The Kitchen Design Podcast. Episode 14
Paul talks with Allison and Sebastien who are doing a complex kitchen renovation, Sebastion is an architect. Paul explains why kitchen designers and architects have very different successful design criteria for any space. Paul preaches once again about ten pounds of sausage in an eight-pound wrapper.
Appliance Demonstration Dinners Return and Make Appliance Shopping Fun!
Experiencing A Professional Appliance Demo Dinner.
Now that Covid is more manageable one of the best parts of shopping for high end professional appliances has returned, namely appliance demonstration dinners.
Shaker – The Most Popular Kitchen Cabinet Door Style is also the Most Versatile.
Main Line Kitchen Design celebrates 13 years of Shaker being the most popular door style and white, or off white, being the most popular color. Here is blog we wrote over ten years ago. It was true then, as it is now!
Remodelers Face Kitchen Cabinet and Other Supply Chain Delays in 2022.
What’s the real lead time homeowners should expect when ordering the materials for a new kitchen?
The simplest answer is that the less expensive the materials the shorter the lead time.
Calls with Paul: The Kitchen Design Podcast. Episode 11
Episode 11
Paul talks to Elizabeth who has a kitchen designed with custom cabinetry but a simplistic design. Paul encourages her to not use such high wall cabinets and to possibly lower her ceiling in order to remove an unsightly beam and save by no longer needing custom cabinetry.
Planning a Kitchen Addition, What’s the First Step?
Most homeowners begin planning a kitchen addition with an architect.
However, the most productive and cost effective first step is usually to work with Main Line Kitchen Design first, before getting help from an Architect.