Kitchen Designers Increase in Upscale Projects

Form or function? Style or luxury? Stainless Steel or Sub Zero? Worry no more, as kitchen designers are on the rise in upscale homes across America. The Chicago Daily Herald has the details:

Homeowners remodeling their kitchens in upscale houses constructed 15 years ago might dismissively say, "Oh, it was just what the builder put in."

No more.

Builders of upscale homes - even townhouses and condominiums - work with kitchen and bath designers these days.

Stone countertops, stainless steel appliances with prestige names and fancy cabinets are now part of the kitchen landscape.

The change over decades is easy to explain, said Steve Kunzweiler, president of Cabinets Plus in Palatine.

"Thirty years ago, a kitchen was more the room the food came out of, and it's an entertainment center now," he said.

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