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Extreme How To - DIY Home Improvement By Rob Robillard Using pre-made cabinets in your kitchen remodel is a great way to save on construction costs. With the right techniques, you can easily make stock cabinets look custom. Kitchen designer James Forsaith and I have been working together for 28 years. We joined forces again to incorporate a multiple discipline design, using different materials and fabrication to create a Chef’s kitchen. We approached this kitchen with the goal [codename for budget] of using stock cabinets but enhancing it with high-end options, stainless steel appliances, white stone and tile, and dark...

IKD designers review favorite kitchens featuring Semihandmade When it comes to eye-catching IKEA kitchen designs, everyone has their favorites. IKD designers are no different. In fact, for our design team, there are certain kitchen designs that stand out as great examples of designing with IKEA cabinets. What makes these designs even more unique, however, is that they each combine IKEA’s SEKTION cabinetry framework with door fronts from Semihandmade, giving each design a unique, custom feel. Maybe it’s a kitchen that requires a seamless built-in look; a petite yet functional kitchen with interesting textures; an IKEA kitchen with a balance of...

Danielle Rago’s family pied-à-terre was typical of New York City: dark, cramped (it spans merely 500 square feet), and dated. “We’ve had it for more than a decade,” she recalls. “It was ripe for a transformation.” So when her sister—who had been living there for the past six years—moved out in 2018, Rago leapt at the opportunity to make it her own haven. She not only longed for a place to stay while in transit—although based in Los Angeles, the cofounder of THIS X THAT, a strategic agency for up-and-coming architects, often traveled to the East Coast prior to the...

The unit forms part of Bene's PORTS line, which also contains a storage table and lounge chair designed for contemporary workplaces. PORTS Storage by Pearson Lloyd is intended to be multifunctional "The market for executive offices and furniture has not changed for over a century," said Pearson Lloyd co-founder Tom Lloyd. "It is still defined in terms of hierarchy and old concepts of status, without considering the users' needs. PORTS offers a new way to define what a private workspace looks like and how it functions." In response to this changing office landscape, PORTS Storage is designed to double up...

Furniture including seating, lighting and storage have been added to Dezeen Showroom, which is an affordable space for brands to launch products and showcase their designers and projects. Read on to see the latest products: Eclipse dining chair by Atelier de Troupe Design studio Atelier de Troupe presented Eclipse dining chair, which is characterised by a circular form that loops around the chair. The chair is composed of an ellipse-shaped base wrapped in a metal frame with slender legs and a curved line that forms the backrest and armrests. Find out more about Eclipse dining chair › Compas Pendants by Atelier...