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The Critical Role of Showrooms

190 High-tech wizardry may be all the rage in the kitchen and bath design trade, but brick-and-mortar showrooms, as always, are where the real action is when it comes to showcasing products, building client relationships and closing sales. While that should hardly come as a surprise to longtime professionals in the industry’s design or retail sectors, it’s being reinforced in spades by an enlightening new report which found that, even in the current era of online shopping, videoconferencing and virtual reality, independent showrooms remain as critical as ever to new construction and remodeling projects, including both do-it-yourself and designer-involved kitchens…
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Water Delivery Choices for the Home

401 This is probably a ridiculously busy time of year, and you’re probably seriously focused on getting clients’ projects completed before Thanksgiving. Before you know it, though, you’ll be scheduling 2024 kitchen and bathroom starts, so investing a little time now to keep up with current trends will pay dividends in the new year. This month, we’re taking a look at fixtures and faucets around the house. These pros have taken time to share their insights: Bobby Dean, plumbing and hardware merchant with Southern California-based multi-showroom luxury retailer Pirch; Sherri Drew, vp of design studios for national builder Tri Pointe…
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Kim Kardashian Reveals Bathroom Lined with a Forest of Sparkling Christmas Trees: ‘My Happy Place’

The SKIMS founder showed off her holiday decor in a series of photos and videos shared to her Instagram Story on Sunday Monica Schipper/Getty; Kim Kardashian/Instagram Kim Kardashian revealed a line of glittering Christmas trees on display in her bathroom on Sunday. Kim Kardashian’s bathroom is a winter wonderland! On Sunday, The Kardashians star, 43, shared an inside look at the festive decorations she has on display in her Los Angeles home. She started out the mini tour in her iconic bathroom, in which an array of sparkling evergreens can be seen immediately from the entryway. As “Christmas Time Is…
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Feeling flush? Bathroom hygiene is set to explode with the Irish buying public finally ready to embrace wall-hung rimless toilets

The bathroom innovators are on it with a new generation of fixtures and fittings, all designed to keep germs at bay. But do we really need them and are they worth the cost? “Bathroom hygiene is going to explode in the next ten years,” says Tony Murphy of Tile Style. “But for a lot of people, it’s still not high on the list.” His younger clients are understandably more concerned with the overall cost of a project than its long-term cleanliness. “If it looks clean, they think it is clean. But people in the 50-plus age bracket are the ones…