People spent more on major kitchen remodels in 2019, an average of $35,000 (up from $30,000 the year before).

KBIS was, as usual, a vision of the great places the kitchen and bath world is heading. Year after year, we are blown away by the ingenuity and creativity th...

It is likely that your showroom serves a variety of clients in all different age groups. It's impossible to build a showroom that only targets one generation...

Before deciding where you will invest valuable out-of-office time, make a schedule and define your goals.

A showroom renovation can do much more than refresh the look of your retail space.

Keeping an eye on renovation trends is a key way for showrooms to anticipate client needs. It is a major part of the marketing research, especially for showr...

Driven by a mission to be a one-stop shop for all things design, Denver’s brand-new ULTRA Design Center opened its doors in May.

Why is customer loyalty so important? When a client trusts a retailer, they become loyal customers. That means more to a showroom than repeat business. These...

There was, and is, an interest in buying decorative plumbing items in person. In the days of catalogues there were showroom, and in the days of internet reta...

After three days and 30 miles of walking the show floor, we came out of KBIS 2019 with tons of ideas to carry into 2019. There is no doubt that the industry ...

The way people have used kitchen and bathrooms has changed drastically over the past century or so, and so has the way they design and shop for these spaces....

The kitchen has a long and complicated history. Although it has never been as popular as it is these days, if you think about it, it has always been an impor...

The history of the decorative plumbing showroom is closely linked to the evolution of the kitchen and bathroom as the most popular rooms in the house. Bathro...

We have looked into the subject of good branding practices before on the blog, and since it is such an important subject we wanted to take a closer look at b...

Keeping social media platforms up to date can require time and effort, but it is necessary. Social media has become a critical part of the marketing toolkit,...

Depending on the project, there are better times than other to begin renovations. More often than not, the impulse to make changes, major or minor ones, has ...

Before SH Design-Build entered the kitchen and bath showroom world, we built trade show kiosks. We have been to dozens of trade shows all over North America ...

Are you ready for trade show season? Big or small, with a dozen vendors or over a thousand, trade shows can be overwhelming. Before you even get in the car o...

Once a client has designed the kitchen or bathroom of their dreams, what is the next step? Finding the right builder to make the dream a reality. Through you...

The renovation market is going strong, with both first-time and repeat home buyers investing more in their homes. Spending is strong- annual spending on impr...