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One Week Left — Now's the time to nominate a peer, colleague, or even yourself for KBDN's annual list of innovative kitchen and bath design professionals! Sign up and nominate your innovator here: https://bit.ly/3ycLKy5

"Fourteen years ago, it was not very common to have a woman writing up a parts order. It was interesting to watch plumbers come in and look at you like 'why are you at will call? You couldn’t possibly know what part I need.'" https://bit.ly/3ynyebb

The August issue of KBDN is here! 🏆 Featuring the Kitchen & Bath Design Awards 2024, Savvy Storage Solutions, a Design Pro Survey and more. On the Cover: This kitchen, which offers views of the Sonoran Desert, received an updated, contemporary rustic design that earned Amy Klosterman of AB Design Elements in Scottsdale, AZ a Silver Award in the Kitchen & Bath Design Awards’ Kitchens from $100,000 to $175,000 category. Read the Digital Edition now — https://bit.ly/3YBlHeC

2024 Residential Design Architecture Awards — Trellis House by Nick Noyes Architecture Honor Award • Custom Period or Vernacular House As the name suggests, a central trellis became the organizing principle for this home’s three gabled pavilions, laid out near the top of a knoll. The design rectifies the failing of an older house that was plopped down right on top of the rise. “It’s a beautiful little knoll but they didn’t get to enjoy the knoll top,” says Nick Noyes, AIA. “What Frank Lloyd Wright did at Taliesin West was very much on our minds. He saved the knoll top and wrapped the house around it.” The concept, then, turned on how best to enjoy the topographically varied outdoor spaces around the house. Keep Reading + See More Photos: https://bit.ly/3AgU94h Residential Design magazine | Vol. 3, 2024 … Architect: Nick Noyes, FAIA; Michael Perkins, Nick Noyes Architecture, San Francisco Builder: Tim Agapoff Construction, Calistoga, California Interior designer: Elizabeth Rose Jackson Interiors, San Anselmo, California Landscape architect: Alexis Woods Landscape Design, San Francisco Engineer: Dave Duncan, Duncan Engineering, Mendocino, California Other: Evan Shively, Arborica, West Marin, California Energy consultant: Rick’s Energy Solutions, Santa Rosa, California Photography: Suzanna Scott Photography #residentialdesign #residentialarchitecture #customhomes #architects

Nominate a Kitchen & Bath Design Innovator by Friday — https://lnkd.in/g-kS6ubb Every industry has them–the big-picture thinkers, the visionaries, the professionals who continually offer new and better ways. They refuse to accept things as they are, they innovate, and in the process, they shape kitchen and bath design, now and for years to come. Chances are you know an innovator—a colleague or peer—whose design or business ideas hold the power to transform the status quo. This fall, Kitchen & Bath Design News magazine will unveil its 8th annual list of Innovators. Now is your chance to nominate a trendsetting colleague or peer whose ‘new method’ or design idea is undeniably moving kitchen and bath design forward. Maybe it’s you. If so, it’s A-OK to self-nominate. From now until midnight on August 9, 2024, nominations are being accepted at https://lnkd.in/gJrTmBgy. The Innovators honors kitchen and bath design professionals as well as industry channel partners only. If you’d like to read about 258 previous announced innovators, you can do so at www.kitchenbathdesign.com. Only completed nominations will be considered.

Residential Design, Vol. 4: 2024 is here — "In curating this issue, we went looking for urban houses and ended up with nearly a half dozen quirky city houses—all remodeled to preserve their idiosyncratic personalities. This was purposeful on the part of their architects and their clients—and that’s a welcome change from the kind of scorched earth replacement of urban housing we’ve seen in the past." "Every firm we feature in this issue had a hand in communicating the value of the scale and massing of the original house and was instrumental in maintaining its streetside presence—even when that meant stitching together a kind of crazy quilt of old and new." —S. Claire Conroy, Editor-in-Chief View the Digital Edition at https://lnkd.in/g2twJwNC. On the Cover: Waverly Place by VJAA Inc., Minneapolis Photo: Steve Hall, Hall + Merrick + McCaugherty Photographers #residentialdesign #residentialarchitecture #customhomes #architecture #architects

The 2024 Kitchen & Bath Design Award winners will be announced Thursday! 🎉 But first, meet our esteemed judging panel (from left to right)... • Sarah Kahn Turner, Marnie Custom Homes in Bethany Beach, DE • Doug Walter, Doug Walter Architects in Denver, CO • Richard T. Anuszkiewicz, Design Galleria in Nashville, TN • Jerel Lake, Design Galleria Kitchen and Bath Studio in Atlanta, GA • Helene Terry, Helene’s Luxury Kitchens in Dallas, TX • Mike O’Brien, Change Design Group LLC in Wilmette, IL The judges evaluated each project on multiple points, including: aesthetic appeal, functionality of the space, attention to detail, handling of unusual situations, originality, selection of colors and finishes and overall impression. We look forward to sharing the KBDA award-winning projects soon!

Moderated by S. Claire Conroy of Residential Design magazine, a panel of residential architecture practitioners came together to discuss artificial intelligence, budgets, business practices, and more. https://bit.ly/3Wk7H6a

2024 Residential Design Architecture Awards — Tonal House by Observation Studio Citation • Custom Urban House This “lovely little family house,” as the judges described it, is light and bright despite restrictions that dictated a long, deep footprint of 1,200 square feet. The roughly north-south-oriented lot aligns with high-up views of downtown Portland to the west and Mount St. Helens to the east, and so does the house. Its form-defining east- and west-facing shed roofs act as light monitors that let in morning and late afternoon sun. They correspond with stair halls that channel light into opposite sides of the floor plan. Keep Reading + See More Photos: https://bit.ly/4bW4RtW Residential Design magazine | Vol. 3, 2024 ... Architect: Chris Brown, Observation Studio (formerly Linden Brown), Portland, Oregon Builder: Callum Clark, Structure Build, Portland Interior designer: Sara Bergqvist, Hemma Staging, Portland Landscape designer: Wesley Younie, Portland Photography: Lara Swimmer Photography #residentialdesign #residentialarchitecture #customhomes #architects