Trend Spotting
In the weeks after George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, a meme began trending among kitchen and bath professionals on …
Design & Construction Week roared back to life in February, with 70,000 attendees and 1,200 exhibitors spending three busy days at the Orange County Convention …
Product Trends
In today’s kitchens, the sink area continues to gain importance, as it changes from a place of cleansing to the focus of prep, cleaning and …
Today’s kitchen countertops come in a range of materials, with man-made materials being particularly popular due to their durability and cleanability. Surfaces – from quartz …
Consumer Buying Trends
INDIANAPOLIS — Wellness features, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and an elevated awareness of indoor environments’ impact on physical and mental health, are no longer …
PALO ALTO, CA — U.S. homeowners are increasingly turning to their master bathroom as a safe and peaceful respite from a world that often seems …
Trend Surveys
PALO, ALTO, CA — While architecture and design professionals remain confident about business prospects, their outlook has “softened slightly,” with expectations declining somewhat for project …
CHICAGO — Disruptions in the global supply chain continue to be a significant industrywide challenge, with lead times for both domestic- and foreign-sourced products and …
International Design Trends
Though this fall’s gathering at Salone in Italy was an abbreviated version of the annual event, visitors were wowed by what they saw and got …
You know how exhilarating and exhausting Design & Construction Week can be? Now double the number of exhibit halls just for kitchen and bath products …