Info on popular trends with luxury kitchen remodeling -Boca Raton, FL

Cheat the space - Canny visual tricks can help to make even the smallest kitchen seem bigger than it really is. One of the best is to use glass for one or all of your kitchen walls. A wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling window - whether it overlooks a garden or another room - can't help but draw the eye beyond the confines of the kitchen, making it seem more spacious. Creating a glass wall is a major undertaking of course, but there are other, less dramatic ways of cheating the space that you can use.

Four cheat's specials for remodeling of Boca Raton kitchens:

• When remodeling a kitchen, have your cabinets custom made and raised on silts. Being able to see the floor running underneath will make the room seem less cramped.
  
• Use shiny surfaces. Any reflective materials such as resin, gloss paint or steel, will give the room depth and increase the sensation of space.
• Choose wider-than-average cabinets. The result will be to broaden the room visually and also, of course, to give you loads more room for all your oversized pots and pans.
• If your kitchen flows into another room, extend the flooring, the wall coloring, or even the countertop into the adjacent space. By blurring the boundaries, you will trick the brain into thinking that the kitchen goes farther than it really does.

According to Toby from Strikeforce, a good sized AC system, it takes only an hour to bring temperature down in even a large, custom kitchen. Since Boca gets so humid, it's a good idea to have one installed. Especially in the kitchen where heat and cooking go hand in hand. No matter what your bath and kitchen renovation needs, we can help.

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More kitchen renovation ideas and tips from local contractors

If you are not sure quite which look you want, make yourself a mood board. When you see something you like in a magazine or a brochure, whether it's a fantastic appliance or a perfect color, tear it out, and once you have a collection, pin together on a board or glue onto cardboard. You can include natural things too: a beautifully colored leaf, for example, or an attractively textured piece of bark.

Your mood board should make it easy to see what style and color scheme works best for you and your kitchen. It can also help you eliminate things that don't fit. If your collection of colors and images is mostly traditional, it makes rejecting the hyper-modern range of your dreams that much easier. If the result is not clear-cut, see what colors and materials dominate, and build on them.