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LOS ANGELES--In a landmark legal decision, a 34-year-old fabrication worker has been awarded $52.4 million in damages by a Los Angeles County jury, which found a trioof engineered-stone suppliers liable [...]

THE SUBJECT OF potential health risks tied to the manufacturing and fabrication of engineered-stone countertops has gravitated in the recent months from production facilities, workshops and job sites to legislative [...]

THE GREAT AMERICAN Dream, ingrained in the national ethos since America's founding, has become nothing shod of a nightmare for legions of prospective home buyers facing skyrocketing-costs for buying and [...]

THERE'S AN EXTRAORDINARY amount of product churn underway these days across the kitchen and bath retail landscape, with design professionals seemingly more likely than at any time in recent memory [...]

THE KITCHEN AND bath market, receding from the record highs of the COVID-fueled home-remodeling boom, has become increasingly bifurcated in 2024--split into two distinct segments populated by homeowners with sharply [...]

An ever-expanding array of technology tools is being utilized by kitchen and bath design professionals for marketing, sales, client communications, design and other business functions as the market - along [...]

2023 IS SHAPING UP to be far more of a bumpy, unsettled ride than that of 2022, with kitchen and bath design firms being forced to navigate a plethora of [...]

THERE'S AN OVERARCHING trend that's increasingly impacting the construction, remodeling and sale of homes across America--and it's one that kitchen and bath design pros would be wise to embrace in [...]

IT'S NOT NECESSARILY the largest, the most experienced or the most intelligent companies that prevail in fast-paced, challenging markets. Instead, it's the companies that prove the most resilient - those [...]

THE NATION'S CABINET trade, buffeted for months by high interest rates, a housing slump and other market headwinds, was subjected to decidedly mixed news recently, with word that Rutt Quality [...]

The skilled-labor shortage that's plaguing the residential construction trade is increasingly looming as a major concern for the kitchen and bath industry, with employers struggling to recruit, train and retain [...]

IT IS, BY most accounts, the single greatest challenge across the kitchen and bath market spectrum - hiring and retaining a workforce that is, at once, highly skilled, performance-driven and [...]

Disruptions in the global supply chain, wrought largely by the lingering impact of COVID-19 and robust demand, continue to be a significant industry-wide challenge. Lead times for both domestic- and [...]

BY ELIOT SEFRIN, PUBLISHER EMERITUS The COVID-19 pandemic, intensifying throughout much of the U.S., continues to impact the operations and finances of kitchen and bath design firms, with most anticipating [...]

The use of cutting-edge technology for project design, client relations, management and marketing has become far more prevalent throughout the kitchen and bath design community since the onset of COVID-19 [...]

THERE'S A SERIOUS challenge facing the residential-construction trade - and it's not related to labor shortages, supply-chain snafus, interest rates and other industry headwinds. The challenge, instead, is tied to [...]

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 [...]

KITCHEN & BATH Design News marks a major milestone this month, as the magazine celebrates the 40th anniversary of its launch, fresh on the heels of its annual celebration of [...]

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has left a lasting imprint on the fabric of American life, fundamentally transforming people's perception of their home, creating enormous untapped demand and resulting in nothing short [...]

THERE'S A POTENTIALLY lucrative, although often overlooked, market niche for kitchen and bath design firms to harvest as a potential revenue source in 2023. particularly with traditional remodeling projects facing [...]

WITH THE ONSET of warm weather, home-owners' attention is increasingly turning to the Great Outdoors. So is the attention of savvy homebuilders, residential remodelers and kitchen/bath design firms looking to [...]

SARAH ROBERTSON AND Mary Maney have more than a few notable things in common. So do Henrietta Heisler, Emily Miller--and a slew of other topflight kitchen and bath design professionals [...]

IT'S A BRAVE new world when it comes to the advent of business technology for kitchen and bath design firms, with a relentless array of cutting-edge tools cre-ating opportunities as [...]

THERE'S AN ENLIGHTENED new business model emerging within the residential design trade--and it posits that instead of a singular focus on financial returns, as tradition dictates, kitchen/bath design firms and [...]

Sales leads and project requests are robust, and revenue forecasts are bullish, but profit margins are reportedly being squeezed, COVID-19 remains a concern, and kitchen/bath dealers and designers continue to [...]

THESE ARE UNIQUELY challenging times for the kitchen and bath design trade, with a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of COVlD-related headwinds and robust demand forcing design pros to remain especially vigilant, agile [...]

KOHLER, Wl--Kohler Co. Executive Chairman Herbert V. Kohler, Jr., 83, whose vision, passion and decades-long leadership helped fuel the vibrancyand growth of the kitchen and bathindustry, died last month in [...]

BLUE ARNOLD HAS an enlightened lake on the role of home technology in a kitchen and bath industry that's witnessing a relentless stream of high-tech innovation, a rapid evolution in [...]

THERE'S AN OMINOUS cloud howering over the housing and remodeling markets, and it's not tied solely to supply chain disruptions, housing shortages, rising interest rates and other inflationary pressures--as if [...]

IF YOU DON'T have your health, you don't have anything. That age-old maxim has taken on far greater meaning in the era of COVID-19--and, along with it, a far higher [...]

Business for kitchen and bath design firms remains robust and is projected to continue on an upward trajectory as the impact of COVID-19 recedes and remodeling demand continues at record [...]

FOR A KITCHEN and bath industry that's forever in flux, the future is seemingly dawning at breakneck speed, with an entirely new generation of consumers steadily supplanting the clients who [...]

TRICIA ZACH KNOWS a thing or two about the luxury market. What she's certain of, beyond a doubt, is that true luxury isn't simply about the large sums of money [...]

QIANYAN CHENG HAS felt the sting of the industry's historic supply chain disruptions. The co-founder of INOX--the Sacramento-based supplier of decorative hardware and door locks--Cheng has reported lengthy shipment delays [...]

THERE'S LITTLE DOUBT that COVID-19 has radically transformed the residential remodeling, housing and kitchen/bath landscape. For one thing, remodeling demand is reportedly at record highs, with both short- and long-term [...]

THE KITCHEN AND bath industry, fueled by a rebound from the impact of COVID-19, may be witnessing robust demand, heightened activity and bullish sales projections. But even in the midst [...]

WASHINGTON, DC--Supply chain disruptions continue to wreak havoc on material prices, product backlogs, freight costs and kitchen/bath project timelines, although current conditions are likely a temporary speedbump rather than a [...]

FEDERAL LAWMAKERS ARE apparently at it again, poised to potentially make the same legislative blunder on a national level as was made last year in California - and threatening the [...]

THERE'S ENCOURAGING NEWS on up for a kitchen and bath industry that's already witnessing a major spike in demand as the impact of COVID-19 recedes and virus-related lifestyles prompt consumers [...]

KITCHEN AND BATH designers, along with other residential remodeling professionals, may well be shortchanging themselves--and seriously compromising their bottom lines--by undervaluing the special services they provide, while failing to charge [...]

WHEN COVID-19 unexpectedly forced millions of Americans to work from home in 2020, business owners and employees across the kitchen and bath landscape feared the unwanted specter of vanishing jobs, [...]

IT IS SAID that upon seeing a group of Nobel Prize Laureates at dinner one evening, President John Kennedy observed that there hadn't been such a glittering assemblage of talent [...]

THE ECONOMIC AND public-health tsunami wrought by C0V1D-19 continues to sweep across the nation, as 2021 opens with high hopes despite a global pandemic that has cost lives, ravaged businesses [...]

Understanding what kitchens and baths are truly all about involves far more than simply gaining expertise in design, construction principles and product specification. Experienced designers understand that full well. They [...]

Byline: Eliot Sefrin Success Today Means Getting to Know What Makes Diverse Clients Tick In a market grown ever-more fragmented, knowing what makes your client tick may be more critical [...]

Byline: Eliot Sefrin NKBA Editorial It's time for a celebration - and not simply because the housing market, after languishing for five-plus years, is finally exhibiting signs of a genuine [...]

Byline: Eliot Sefrin Staying in Touch With a New Market And New Consumer The kitchen and bath industry may be vastly different now than it was at the height of [...]

Byline: Eliot Sefrin Applying Out-of-the-Box Thinking In an economy that continues to plod along in fits and starts, kitchen and bath product manufacturers - like the design trade they serve [...]

Byline: Eliot Sefrin Redefining the Modern Showroom Today's kitchen and bath showrooms are clearly changing - and very quickly - evolving along with so many other aspects of our industry. [...]

'New' Consumer Changes the Game ELIOT SEFRIN, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER A 'new normal' has settled in across the kitchen and bath industry, far different than what was considered 'normal' [...]