Journeys in Kitchen & Bath Design with Walker Woodworking

Discover real-life design journeys, expert advice, and behind-the-scenes stories from the Walker Woodworking team. Whether you’re dreaming of a custom kitchen or planning a bathroom renovation, our kitchen and bath blog is the perfect resource for you.

Dive into a wealth of ideas and inspiration that will guide your next project, helping you create spaces that are not only functional but also beautifully tailored to your lifestyle. Join us as we share tips, tricks, and innovative design solutions that bring your vision to life.

Kitchen & Bath Blog

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Designing A Self-Care Bathroom

Self-care has become a popular term lately as we realize its importance. Often, we drive ourselves to do more and feel guilty if we take a break, but the truth is, we all need one.
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How to Design Bathroom Layout

Designing a bathroom layout might seem straightforward, but it’s more complex than it appears. Bathrooms are functional spaces that require careful planning to optimize usability, comfort, and aesthetics.
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Kitchen Cabinet Color Trends For 2022

If upgrading your kitchen or renovating is one of your home goals for this year, you need to know about current cabinet color trends for 2022.
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Personalize Your New Home with Unique Cabinet Finishes

Personalizing your new home is crucial for creating a space that reflects your unique style and meets your specific needs. One effective way to achieve this is through unique cabinet finishes, which can dramatically alter the appearance of kitchens and bathrooms.
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Designing for a Master Bathroom

Taking the time to select a layout and design style that suits you is important. Here, we answer some of the more common aspects to consider when designing the ideal master bathroom.
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Why Have Built-In Seating In Your Kitchen?

Kitchen islands are a great place to add extra seating, but built-in seating, often called banquettes, is a wonderful way to add seating with style. Let’s discuss the benefits of including built-in seating in your kitchen and explore ways to incorporate it into your design.
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Countertops Decisions – What’s important? Beauty, Function, or Durability

Choosing the right countertops is crucial to enhance the overall look and feel of your kitchen, bathroom, office, pantry, or laundry room. Countertops are like the “icing on the cake” for cabinetry, and they can make or break the design of your space.
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Wellness and Home Products

Choosing the right home products can help you create a wellness environment, giving you more peace of mind. Spend time evaluating your home and identifying areas for improvement. Let your home be the best it can be for everyone.
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How To Redesign An Old Home

We love old homes, the history they hold, and the unique beauty each possesses. Preserving these dwellings is something we enjoy being part of because it gives us a chance to protect the past while making a few modifications that make it more convenient for today’s owners. There are many factors to consider for such a special project.

Designing A Coffee Station

Coffee is a staple ingredient in the mornings for most people. We love the freshly brewed scent as we begin our day and rely on the boost it gives us to get the last of the sand out of our eyes and add a little bounce to our step.
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Popular Bathroom Cabinet Styles

While the kitchen may be the heart of the home, the bathroom is a place of relaxation—and the bathroom cabinet plays a key role in creating that peaceful retreat.
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Why Use Metal Cabinet Doors

New materials are being paired together to create something unique and wonderful. One of these new combinations is metal and wood, specifically metal cabinet doors. While not the typical choice for kitchen cabinet design, this choice adds a new dimension to the overall look and feel of the kitchen.
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Cabinet Door Styles For 2022

Cabinet design encompasses many elements to create the perfect kitchen, including the cabinet door style, which offers choices such as inset, overlay, or even completely custom.
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How To Design A Zero Waste Kitchen

More and more homeowners are interested in using eco-friendly products and materials and designing their homes to minimize their environmental impact. This has led to a rise in zero waste kitchen concepts, with designers looking to meet their clients’ requests in a way that delivers a functional, environmentally friendly, yet stylish kitchen.
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Modern Design Trends

Interior designers use it as inspiration as they attempt to build a place that satisfies their client’s demand for a look that emphasizes functionality, stark, clean forms, and abstract thinking—layout with a basic and practical design. Modern design style is rooted in German and Scandinavian design, which sought to pair art with functionality.
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Reclaimed Wood Projects

What is it about reclaimed wood that makes it so popular? Is it the fact that it possesses a character all its own, or maybe it’s because of the history it holds inside? Whatever the reason, reclaimed wood is trending as a material choice across multiple areas of the home, including kitchens, bathrooms, and home offices.
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What Is An Industrial Farmhouse?

It has won over numerous homeowners and designers, who use it in many kitchen spaces, including on TV. As popular as it is, it is no surprise that designers created a new twist by blending rustic elements with industrial accents to make an industrial farmhouse style.
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Creative Solutions For Multiple Users In The Home

Our houses are often shared by multiple people, and with multigenerational homes becoming more common, there is a need for designers to create spaces that maximize storage, emphasize individuality, and blend them into a unifying whole. Whether it is the bathroom, kitchen, or family room, with a little well-planned strategy, you can implement creative solutions for the multiple users in your home.

Designing A Condo Kitchen

Although there is less space to work with than a traditional kitchen layout, it doesn’t mean there needs to be a loss in function or style. It is essential to know all the options and elements available to make your kitchen feel more significant than it seems and operate for your lifestyle needs. Let’s talk about what it takes to design a condo kitchen.

The Heart of the Kitchen

Few elements in kitchen design are as functional and striking as the cabinetry kitchen hood. Often the centerpiece of the kitchen, a well-designed hood enhances the space’s aesthetics and plays a crucial role in maintaining air quality and keeping the area clean.
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Designing His and Her Spaces In The Home

While this may be the least-used area in the home, it is the one place where we store the things we use daily, such as our clothes, which makes it the most popular option for his and her bedroom and closet design.
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Technology In The Home

More and more homeowners are looking for ways not just to maximize their space but also to be efficient, which is why smart home technology has become popular over the last few years. We love the ease and peace of mind it gives us as we turn off a light with voice commands or secure our doors from our phones.
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Looking Ahead To Next Year

Looking ahead to the future, a new year is always an exciting time, as it symbolizes new beginnings and possibilities for you and your home. If your home isn’t working for you, now is the perfect time to embark on your renovation journey to a new home, redesigned with you and your family in mind.
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Why Hire a Designer

This is where hiring an interior designer can be a game-changer. This blog will explore the benefits of enlisting a professional interior designer for your home remodeling project.