Posts by Alexandra Graham (Kitchen Designer)
10 Kitchen Essentials Every Home Cook Should Own, and What Good Ones Cost
My first good knife died in a dishwasher. Not mine, a roommate's dishwasher, he loaded it blade up between two mugs like a maniac and r...
Kitchen Remodeling Ideas for Bellevue Homes: What Works Here and What It Costs
The simple answer is most Bellevue kitchen remodels are really one project, opening a closed 1960s or 70s kitchen into the living space...
How to Compare Quartz Countertops Before You Buy
Two quartz slabs can look identical under showroom lights and behave completely differently in a kitchen, and the gap comes down to thr...
How to Choose Kitchen Cabinet Handles That Work in a Working Kitchen
Handles are the thing people spend the least time choosing and touch the most. Every drawer, every cupboard, every pantry pull, dozens ...
Buying Kitchen Cabinets Wholesale in Akron: What the Price Gap Actually Looks Like and Where Orders Go Wrong
The difference between retail and wholesale cabinet pricing on a standard ten-by-ten kitchen layout runs somewhere between thirty and f...
Upgrading Kitchen Cabinets on a Budget: Five Real Options and How to Pick Yours
You see, you want to upgrade your kitchen cabinets without going crazy on the spend, and the quotes you keep getting are all over the p...
Why Your Kitchen Looks Worse on Camera Than It Does in Real Life
A kitchen that looks lovely when you walk into it can film badly, and the reason is almost always light coming from the wrong place.
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