Today’s look of reclaimed wood is not your average wood paneling from the 70s, which would make any modern-day interior designer turn the other way.

Montreal - Winners were announced in Richelieu Hardware’s Richelieu Awards for New Designers contest. Now in its second year, the contest focus was on creating a design for a micro living space.

 

The winners, André Jacques—a graduate from a school of interior design in St-George-de-Beauce in Québec—and Charles Laurence Proulx and Gil Hardy-Groleau—from the design firm NÓS Architectes in Montreal—let their ideas shine by proposing well-balanced and accessible solutions.

CINCINNATI, Ohio – Clearing the counter is an obsession for 75 percent of homeowners, according to a recent Houzz survey. This obsession is driving homeowners to remodel their kitchens for a fresh, clean design to ease their organizational woes. 

 

These five trends are topping the charts as the most common updates in a kitchen.

 

Simple paint colors

With an emphasis on kitchen organization, homeowners are looking for a clean look by using crisp whites and soft grays.