4 additions every kitchen can benefit from

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 Oster Blender with Food Processor attachment This here is a holiday must, according to our head designer Patty Hayos. “It’s just one of those things that is out every holiday season.” It replaces many other appliances with its’ small attachments. And why would you want to clutter up your cabinets with 5-6 other appliances when you can [...]

Cake4Kids Cook Off !!!

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Patty Hayos and the family at Signature Kitchen & Bath Design have been sponsoring Cake4Kids this past summer and it has been a blast. Most recently Cake4Kids held a Cook-off on the 17th of September. They were able to raise $4,000 to help their cause, while our own Patty and Stephanie Hayos were judges. If you [...]

7 Things you should think about before you remodel your kitchen

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  Helpful tips for personalizing your kitchen to fit your every need.   1)      Who cooks in the kitchen? Before remodeling your kitchen ask yourself, “Who cooks in the kitchen?” This may sound like a simple question, but oddly enough, the answers do not always pop to your head. Is there one main person who [...]

Signature Kitchen & Bath Design – The New Location – A Year Later

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It was a tough job but solid work and design created results which far outperformed our wildest expectations! As usual for a construction project, managing the many aspects including layout, design, and construction execution was the toughest part. We’ve been fortunate that our past efforts had proven us to our vendors and industry partners, each responded with overwhelming support. Without [...]

Remodeling your kitchen without leaving your home

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Having your kitchen out of commission for any length of time requires a bit of planning. We like to advise our clients to create a temporary kitchen for use while their kitchen is receiving its much-anticipated makeover. It helps to be organized, but even homeowners who are challenged in the organization department can survive a kitchen remodel [...]

Can you give me a ballpark price?

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It’s not unusual for us to get a request, almost weekly, for a “ballpark price”. We understand that the request is to determine a number of things: Can I afford to do this project, can I afford your products and services, do you have good pricing, or am I getting a good value for my [...]

Kitchen Remodeling – Price vs Value

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Getting an excellent price is the only thing that matters, right? Not exactly… Lets say you ask someone how much for a car? They answer $10,000. Now that’s either a great price or a lousy price. If it’s for a brand new luxury car it’s great, if it’s for an old jalopy, it’s not. The REASON [...]

Cakes 4 Kids

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Signature Kitchen & Bath was proud to host our first event for the non profit organization Cake 4 Kids today. Cake4Kids mission is to serve San Francisco Bay Area agencies that cater to disadvantaged children and youth and to provide a service that brings smiles and hope to children who wouldn’t otherwise have a birthday. [...]

Kitchenaid KMT223CU Toaster Review

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In case you don’t want to read my long-winded story below, the toaster is a winner and is worth the extra money over the cheap ones… See it at Kitchenaid. A few weeks ago Patty was moving the toaster, which we store on top of the refer, when it did a header to the floor. My [...]

Considering Cabinet Construction

Medallion Cabinetry offers a wide variety of framed cabinets

Cabinets are built in two ways – either with ¾ – 1-inch framing that the cabinet doors are attached to, or without framing. Both methods have advantages, so it is important to understand the differences. Also known as “full access” cabinets, frameless cabinets offer more storage space than framed cabinets. They are a great choice [...]