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The entire KBF team wants to exceed all your expectations – from your experience in our showroom to the design we create for you, from the way we communicate with you during the process through every step of the installation that leads to your newly-remodeled home – we want you to be absolutely thrilled with your experience with us. Orlando magazine’s Inaugural Home Design Awards just named the showroom as the number one Kitchen Design Showroom, the number one Cabinet Showroom and the number three Tile Showroom in all of Central Florida (as voted on by the public). The showroom provides thousands of square feet of design inspiration, all to help us create the perfect space for you in your home. Our family-owned and operated business is now welcoming clients at our new location in Maitland (1295 South Orlando Avenue, across from The Enzian Theater and Park Maitland School). The look for less, kitchen or bathroom 1 st place: Shannon A.KBF has earned a reputation as a trusted leader in interior design and remodeling in Central Florida. Good design, said fellow judge Jackie Schagen of Jackie Schagen Design in Oshawa, is “achieving the delicate balance between form and function, making sure that function is addressed first and then making sure that it is a beautiful space afterwards, and in that order.”īest kitchen, contemporary/modern ($60,000-$79,999) 1 st place: Julie Bariault-Morin, Muskoka Cabinet Company 2 nd place: Catherine Pulcine, CPI Interiorsīest bathroom, classic/traditional ($10,000-$24,999) 1 st place: Vida Kiani, Distinctive Bathrooms & Kitchens 2 nd place: Karley Scrivens, Laurysen Kitchensīest bathroom, classic/traditional ($25,000+) 1 st place: Lisa Poirier, Westyle Interior Design 2 nd place: Becky Powell, Bex Interiorsīest bathroom, contemporary/modern ($10,000-$24,999) 1 st place: Emma Doucet, Grassroots Design and Build 2 nd place: Lauren Bowen, Tego Corp.īest bathroom, contemporary/modern ($25,000-$39,999) 1 st place: Jenny Neilson, ARTium Design Build 2 nd place: Amandine Dénéréaz, Distinctive Bathrooms & Kitchensīest powder room, any style 1 st place: Nathan Kyle, Astro Design Centre 2 nd place: Vida Kiani, Distinctive Bathrooms & Kitchens The project also won at the 2019 Ottawa Housing Design Awards. “I was really impressed by the level of entries.” Best kitchen, classic/traditional & contemporary/modern ($80,000+), 1st place: Nathan Kyle, Astro Design Centre. “I liked the fact that I saw a lot of function-first designs,” said judge Jennifer Cross of Ottawa’s Flux Lighting. Entries included a home office, games room and a show room for a cabinetry company. New this year was a category for show spaces and other rooms in which cabinetry was a key feature. Seven judges from the kitchen and bath industry across North American evaluated 105 entries in a blind judging process to determine first- and second-place winners. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “It seems out of date, but that’s what we’ve had to do.” Instead, 2020 projects will be grouped with 2021 projects at next year’s gala and “we went ahead with judging what we already had… we just continued with the 2019 (awards),” said Gibbons. The committee toyed with the idea of combining 20 projects in this year’s celebration, but delays in completing projects last year meant that many wouldn’t be ready in time. The project also won at the 2020 Ottawa Housing Design Awards. Our kitchen is more functional, all of our storage needs have been met, and it has become a great gathering space. “The timing was horrible.” Best kitchen, classic/traditional ($60,000-$79,999), 1st place: Julia Enriquez, Astro Design Centre, with co-designer The Decorators Choice. As everyone shifted to a new way of living and working, the gala committee did not have time to regroup, said Ottawa chapter president Sandra Gibbons.
The gala was supposed to be held in May 2020, celebrating projects completed in 2019, but had to be cancelled when the pandemic hit. “So excited! This has been the longest wait ever,” noted designer Natalia Pierce during the April 30 premier. National Capital Region's Top Employers.