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  • Consumers Want to Do More Green Building and Remodeling: Study
    - Monday April 28, 2008
    The latest research from Better Homes and Gardens (BH&G) looked at the most important factors homeowners consider when buying a new home or remodeling their current homes. The results – which BH&G released during the 2008 Kitchen/Bath Industry Show & Conference (K/BIS) in Chicago – didn’t find any surprises in the top five priorities in a home, which are: 1. An all-new kitchen that looks great and is fun to work in. 2. The right amount and type of customized storage. 3. A master bath and bedroom that feel like a luxurious hotel room. 4. Well-designed spaces that can be personalized. 5. A separate and convenient sizeable laundry workroom.However, what is surprising is that the study found that more than half of all of...

  • K/BIS 2008 Design Display Takes a Literal Look at ‘Green Design’
    - Monday April 28, 2008
    This year, everything seemed to be coming up “green†on the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show & Conference (K/BIS) show floor, and the 2008 Design Showcase was no exception. Now while many displays and products were green because of their environmentally friendly design, the Design Showcase highlighted “green design†quite literally.Indeed, the project’s principal designer Ingrid Leess was inspired by CaesarStone’s Apple Martini shade of natural quartz surfacing material. Leess, of New Canaan, CT-based Ingrid Leess Interior Design, started with color as her guide, and because of that green hue she saw last year, green became the theme of this year’s Design Showcase, which was sponsored by Woman’s Day...

  • Eco-Friendly Design, Aging-In-Place Options, Integrated Technology Mark 2008 DIC
    - Friday April 25, 2008
    The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA)/Meredith Corp.’s Design Idea Center (DIC) returned to 2008 the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show & Conference for its third year.Dubbed “Your Kitchen and Bath, Your Way: Designs for Every Lifestyle and Life Stage,†the 10,000 sq.-ft. DIC showcased eco-friendly design ideas, aging-in-place options, integrated technology applications and organization and storage solutions. The DIC also featured products, appliances and materials from a variety of manufacturers and designers, including sponsors Armstrong, DuPont Surfaces, Kohler, KraftMaid and Sub-Zero/Wolf.Here’s a “glimpse†of each vignette that was on display at the NKBA booth in the South Hall: Hostess...

  • Pinnacle Award Winner Named, NKBA Student Design Winners Recognized at Annual Gala
    - Friday April 25, 2008
    Joan DesCombes, CKD with Architectural Artworks Inc., in Winter Park, FL, was named the Pinnacle Award Winner of the National Kitchen & Bath Association’s (NKBA) 2008 Design Competition during the association’s Board of Directors’ Gala and Cocktail Reception at Chicago’s Union Station. The winners of the NKBA 2007/2008 Student Design Competition were recognized during the gala by Connie Edwards, CKD, CBD, and Paul Leuthe. Edwards is with contest sponsor American Woodmark (Timberlake Cabinetry), and Leuthe’s with sponsor Sub-Zero/Wolf. As Co-sponsors of the competition, American Woodmark and Sub-Zero/Wolf also hosted an annual dinner and cocktail event to honor the winners, which was held aboard an Odyssey...

  • Hall of Fame Brings Three More into the Fold
    - Friday April 25, 2008
    Eliot Sefrin, editorial director and publisher of Kitchen & Bath Design News and KitchenBathDesign.com, was officially inducted into the National Kitchen & Bath Association’s Hall of Fame during the association’s invitation-only, black-tie Board of Directors’ Gala and Cocktail Reception at Chicago’s Union Station (see related story). The 2008 “class†also included industry veteran Ken Rohl of Rohl LLC and long-time industry educator David Newton, CMKBD. “Being inducted into the NKBA’s Hall of Fame is a tremendous honor, and one that I’m most grateful to be receiving,†Sefrin said. “It’s gratifying to know that my work over the years with KBDN has left a positive and...

  • Stay ‘Tuned’ for K/BIS 2008 Coverage
    - Thursday April 3, 2008
    The Kitchen/Bath Industry Show & Conference (K/BIS) will be back in Second City at McCormick Place from April 10 to 13, 2008, and so will KitchenBathDesign.com, covering the show for the third consecutive year live and online.Starting the week of April 7 KitchenBathDesign.com will feature the latest K/BIS news and event details K/BIS updates in its Live Events and Top Headlines sections. The Project Spotlight section will also feature the kitchen and bath designs of the finalists of the 2008 NKBA Design Competition – the winners of which will be named at K/BIS and honored at a special luncheon during K/BIS.Live from the exhibit floor throughout the show and educational conference, I’ll be posting audio, pictures and text...

  • Green Day: A Day Dedicated to All Things Eco-Friendly, not the Band
    - Monday February 25, 2008
    Though the second day of the 2008 International Builders’ Show in Orlando, FL was Valentine’s Day, the most prominent color at this year’s show was green. Indeed, the second day was called Green Day and dedicated to environmentally friendly education and programs for kitchen and bath designers, builders, remodelers and other allied professionals. Around every corner of the show’s more than one million net sq. ft. of exhibit space, there were green products such as low-flow showerhead technology from companies such as Delta and Alsons that are designed maintain the integrity of the shower experience, and energy-efficient and water-saving appliances from Bosch, Thermador and Gaggenau, and displays such as...

  • KCMA Finds it Easy to Be Green
    - Monday February 25, 2008
    With the second day of the 2008 International Builders’ Show here in Orlando, FL dedicated to all things eco-friendly, the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association took the opportunity to unveil www.greencabinetsource.org, the new companion microsite to its successful Environmental Stewardship Program (ESP). I sat down with Dick Titus, executive v.p. of the Reston, VA-based association on that day, dubbed “Green Day,†to talk about the new microsite, the ESP and its future direction in light of the emphasis on all things green at the show, in the media and across the country. Click here to listen. For more 2008 IBS news, and upcoming K/BIS Chicago news, go to www.KitchenBathDesign.com. Be sure to sign up for the...

  • U.S. DOE Issues Energy Challenge to Builders, Designers
    - Monday February 25, 2008
    The U.S. Department of Energy is challenging home builders across the country to build 220,000 homes that use 30% less energy than typical homes by 2012. U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman issued this challenge to U.S. home builders and other design professionals on Green Day, the second day of the 2008 International Builders’ Show in Orlando, FL. He urged them to build these “new high-performance homes†by 2012 as part of the Builders’ Challenge, a new national energy savings program from the DOE. Under the new program’s terms a high-performance home is one using at least 30% less energy overall than a typical new home meeting the criteria of the latest model building codes, Bodman explained to the...

  • IBS 2008 Dips in Attendance, But Offers Quality Traffic, Cautious Economic Optimism
    - Monday February 25, 2008
    Despite lower attendance numbers than the previous year’s show, the 2008 International Builders’ Show marked another successful year in Orlando, FL with its highly attended education sessions and extensive product showcase attracting more than 92,000 attendees, according to IBS sponsor, The National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB). This dip in attendance in its final year in sunny Orlando was felt by an industry that has been rallying against the effects of the meltdown in the subprime mortgage market since the market unraveled late last summer. However, many of the more than 1,900 exhibitors reported having quality traffic. And speakers such as Chief Economists David Seiders (NAHB), Frank Nothaft (Freddie Mac...