Kitchen Remodel and Cost: How to Plan Your Project the Right Way
Kitchen remodel and cost questions are really scope questions. Here’s the planning sequence that keeps a remodel on budget, what actually drives cost, and where estimates tend to go wrong.
Porcelain Tile for High-Traffic Areas: What to Check Before You Buy
Porcelain tile for high-traffic areas isn’t one product; it’s a spec. This guide covers PEI hardness ratings, slip resistance, and finish choices so your entryway, kitchen, or hallway floor holds up to daily use.
How to Change Kitchen Unit Doors (Without a Full Remodel)
A step-by-step guide to changing kitchen unit doors — what US homeowners call cabinet doors — including when it’s a DIY job, how door style affects the result, and when to call a professional instead.
Wood Floor Colors: The Most Popular Hardwood Shades
See the most popular wood floor colors for today’s kitchens and living spaces, from classic neutrals to bold dark tones, plus how to choose and care for the shade you pick.
How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets: A Step-by-Step Guide
A complete guide to painting kitchen cabinets — prep, priming, painting, drying, and cost. Plus when painting isn’t the right call.
From Showroom to Final Install: Your Maine Kitchen Renovation Timeline
How long does a Maine kitchen renovation actually take? A realistic phase-by-phase timeline from the first showroom consultation through cabinet fabrication, install and final punch list.
Inside a Yarmouth, Maine Custom Kitchen: Walnut, Black Stone and a Vaulted Ceiling
A custom kitchen in Yarmouth, Maine built around a vaulted ceiling and an open plan: a walnut island, honed black countertops, painted perimeter cabinetry and a green mudroom.
Inside a Scarborough, Maine Custom Kitchen: White Oak, Quartz and Brass
A whole-home cabinetry project in Scarborough, Maine: rift white oak, painted uppers, quartz countertops and a custom wood range hood. Photos and design decisions from the finished build.
The Best Kitchen Cabinet Materials for Maine Coastal Homes
A kitchen on the Maine coast isn’t just a kitchen. It’s a room where morning light reflects off the water and bounces across painted shaker doors. It’s where salt air drifts through an open window while you’re cooking lobster in August. And it’s one of the most demanding environments a cabinet can live in. If […]
Aging in Place Kitchen Design: Accessible Cabinetry in Maine
Aging in place kitchen design means building a kitchen that works as well at 85 as it does at 45. Here is how Maine homeowners get there: lower upper cabinets, full-extension drawer bases, bar pulls, wider aisles, and better task lighting, with nothing that reads as clinical.
Custom Kitchen Cabinets for New England Cape Cods and Farmhouses
New England is defined by two housing types more than almost any other region in the country: the Cape Cod and the farmhouse. Maine alone has hundreds of thousands of them — modest Capes tucked along coastal roads, and sprawling farmhouses anchoring acres of cleared field. They are beautiful, characterful, and sometimes maddeningly particular to […]
How Maine’s Climate Affects Your Kitchen Cabinets (And How to Protect Them)
Maine is one of the most beautiful places in the country to call home — and one of the most demanding on the materials inside it. If you’ve lived here long enough, you know what the seasons do to wood: the front door that swells shut every July, the hardwood floors that gap in February, […]