How to Achieve a Perfect Faucet Seal on Uneven Tile Faucet seals when installing a faucet (or tub spout or shower set) and related accessories is a challenging task, as even professionals will tell you. But what if the job requires a seal on uneven tile? There are [...]
How to Choose the Best Kitchen Faucet by Lifestyle Choosing the best kitchen faucet for your needs or for the needs of those who will be buying or renting the homes you’re building involves a mix of research and psychology. With the proper area statistics in order [...]
How to Choose and Use Painted Kitchen Tiles In Victorian times, painted, decorative tiles were becoming more and more popular. The Great Sanitary Awakening was one of the main reasons for this renewed interest in tile in Europe. After all, Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis [...]
Showerheads and Hardware for Doorless Showers What is a doorless shower, exactly? And how would a person stay warm when using one? Doorless showers are exactly what the name implies - a shower without a door. They were first embraced in certain segments: spas, lux [...]
Blurring the Line Between Kitchens and Family Rooms Everyone knows what an open-concept kitchen is, but it’s not just a lack of walls that makes a great open-concept design. Not only are the family room and kitchen lines blurred in a new wave of open design, but t [...]
Choosing Faucets for Housing by Region | Location Matters How to choose a kitchen faucet and how to choose a bathroom faucet generally come down to price, quality, and design as these are the main considerations of most multifamily housing professionals and homeow [...]
The Unfitted Kitchen: Build Slowly When thinking of a modern kitchen, upper and lower built-in cabinets come to mind, even a refrigerator disguised as a cabinet if your imagination has decided to bring a luxury kitchen to life in your head. There’s probably an isl [...]
How to Fix a Loose Faucet Handle A loose faucet handle is a small annoyance that can grow over time. It’s one of those issues that probably isn’t large enough to call a plumber, but isn’t something the average person knows how to do. We have you covered. Although [...]
What is a Low-Waste Kitchen? “Low-waste kitchen” is a term for lessening the environmental impact of kitchen waste by putting into place eco-conscious habits or policies. This can be done in a person’s home or in a commercial kitchen. At its core, a low-waste kit [...]
The Evolution of the Modern Shower Shower design has evolved from one basic showerhead with one handle into sophisticated multi-head and multi-handle systems offering rain showers, side jets, handheld functionality, and accessible features that meet modern buildi [...]
