Upper cabinets

Wall cabinets or ‘uppers’ hang on the wall.  Well DUH! you say, that’s so obvious! So let’s start there. I once took a job hanging some ‘bookshelves’ in a lawyers’ home office. These shelves were 4’ wide and 8’ tall and had 1/8” backs. They were big enough to hold far more books than they could support…and I got laid off for saying so but I didn’t want to defend a lawsuit.

Father's Day Gift Ideas

Buff & Shine Shoe Polish Kit
Just for kicks: an all-in-one shoe-shine set for your dapper dad.
To buy: $26, paper-source.com

Fort Myers kitchen remodeler, Tropical Kitchens, is proud to announce we're an authorized Lumicor dealer.

Lumicor translucent resin panel inserts are a stunning alternative to traditional decorative glass. They are available in a number of convenient panel sizes that can be easily trimmed to fit any application. They're an excellent choice for cabinet and door inserts, partitions or interior windows.

14 Small Space Design Tips

Living on a sailboat is a good way to learn to small space design. On a boat, even an inch more or less is the difference between a good night’s sleep and waking up on the cabin sole with a nasty bump on the head. We know, Doreen’s been there.

Of all the kitchen designs we do, designs for small spaces are the most difficult. You would think that there are so few cabinets that it would be easy.  The hard part is each individual element of the design needs to be perfect. An inch out here and another there and soon the design just stops working. So where or how do you start your small kitchen design?