Susan Serra is a CKD (Certified Kitchen Designer), CAPS (Certified Aging in Place Specialist), USGBC (United States Green Building Council) member and NKBA. Susan is an award winning designer and the principal of Susan Serra Associates, Inc., for nearly 20 years.
Her design work is widely published in online and print shelter publications and she [...]
Kitchen Design Expert: Susan Serra, CKD
Kitchen and Bath Design Expert: Susan Palmer
Susan Palmer, CKD, CBD, owner of Susan Palmer Designs, has been designing award-winning custom kitchens & baths for more than 25 years.
When Susan approaches a new design project, she does not impose a specific “style” of design, rather, she looks to each project for inspiration. As she states, ”I am merely the vehicle to achieve [...]
Kitchen and Bath Design Expert: Matthew Quinn
As one of the leading experts in kitchen design, Matthew Quinn has worked around the world to provide his clients with original, memorable kitchens and baths. Function is amply addressed, but so are aesthetics and comfort. Through his projects, often brought to him by the world’s top architects and interior designers.
Matthew is the principal [...]
Kitchen and Bath Design Expert: Jamie Goldberg
Jamie Goldberg, AKBD, CAPS is an NKBA-certified kitchen and bath designer and a freelance design journalist. Her articles have appeared in Signature Kitchens & Baths Magazine, Fine Homebuilding, BobVila.com, KitchenBathIdeas.com and many others. She is also a regular contributor to Kitchens.com, where her Sensible Style blog appears each month.
Jamie currently lives and works in San [...]
Kitchen and Bath Design Expert: Fu Tung Cheng
Fu-Tung Cheng world renown, award winning designer-craftsman, speaker, author, artist and founder of Cheng Design and Cheng Design Products, Inc. brings an organic, balanced, Earth friendly, and aesthetically pleasing approach to his design work and products. Well known for his extraordinary artistic, sculptural work with concrete (from entire homes to sinks) , Fu –Tung has [...]
Kitchen and Bath Design Expert: Lori Carroll
Committed to providing unsurpassed excellence in design, Lori Carroll draws on an outstanding education and notable experience in both residential and commercial design. With a BS degree in Interior Design from the University of Arizona and instruction at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, Lori’s advanced qualifications are evident. As a Professional Member of the [...]
Kitchen and Laundry Room Color Trends 2009: Purple
Purple has gained tremendous popularity in tile, wall paper, wall paint and accent pieces for kitchen and bath for 2009. Shown above Plum Brule and Iridescent Inkwell tile from Glass Tile Store . Viking Ranges offers custom ranges in a rich and varied palette of colors including 2009 color trend favorite Plum.
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Ask the Experts: Kitchen & Bath Design Trends
What do you see as the top Kitchen and Bath design trends for 2009?
Lori Carroll of Lori Carroll & Associates is an award winning Kitchen and Bath Designer based out of Tucson, Arizona. Lori Carroll’s fantastic designs captured our attention at the recent Kitchen and Bath Industry Show – at which Lori was honored with [...]
BELAY TILE-IN HANDRAIL from Kohler
Kohler’s Belay Tile-in Handrail for bathtubs and/or showers offers homeowners looking for safety, assistive bathroom accessories a cleverly concealed option to the ordinary, and often ugly, institutional style grab bars.
According to Michael Wandschneide, marketing manager for bathing products at Kohler:
“The Belay hand rail was designed to protect the user and enhance the overall beauty [...]
HealthCraft The Invisia Collection Safety Enhanced Bathroom Accessories
Who likes to be reminded that they’re aging and aren’t as strong, agile, flexible or physically balanced as they once were? We venture to guess none of us! That’s why we don’t want institution-like assistive devices in our bathrooms’ that scream “Hey you’re getting old”. Unfortunately, as we age or are faced with impaired mobility [...]

