If your family is anything like mine, your kitchen is the home’s gathering place. My family eats, hangs out, reads, and often the kitchen is my office with laptop in tow. The problem with the kitchen being so accessible to everyone is clutter. Grocery bags, the kid’s backpacks, dirty dishes, spices, and all the stuff you can’t figure out where to put enables your kitchen to become a dumping ground for countertops, drawers, and even the cabinets when you need to quickly hide everything before company comes over.

Aside from replacing your cabinets – something we’d be happy to do for youJ - there are some tricks of the trade to keep your kitchen clean and organized. It may take a bit of DIY “oomph,” but in no time you’ll have your kitchen prepped and ready for the family to take over.

REV-A-SHELF KNIFE ORGANIZER BLOCK TRAY FOR DRAWERS

This is embarrassing, but in the past, my family has had up to 3 fully loaded knife blocks

Are you a crazy DIYer looking to install your own cabinets? The Blum Ecodrill is an essential tool to make your job easier.

For most people looking to install their own cabinets you might be surprised to find that the hinge cups (holes in the back of the cabinet where hinges are fastened) are not always pre-cut. These raw cabinets require a bit of measurement to determine where you will install the hinges to ensure a smooth, snug, and long lasting close to your cabinet doors. That’s where the Blum Ecodrill comes into play.

The Blum Ecodrill is a tool that clamps to your door, provides easy measurement and accurately drills the Blum press-in hinge pattern. While designed for Blum hinges, the Ecodrill will accommodate other hinges with similar dimensions.

The jig will clamp to doors

Counter-tops are one of the most aesthetically important choices you will have to make when it comes to your home kitchen and bathroom. Whether you are remodeling, or building from scratch there are several options for counter-tops such as granite (the most popular choice), wood, marble, concrete, and the new chip on the block—quartz.

While relatively new, quartz is considered an engineered stone, and is gaining in popularity both aesthetically and durably. Yet, how does it compare to granite as the leading choice in counter-top surfaces? Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of granite and quartz to see how they stack up!

Attractiveness

I’m going to start by saying, attractiveness is a personal preference. Therefore, it is very difficult to gauge if granite or quartz is more attractive. That being said, the question is a matter of timeless beauty vs. contemporary beauty.

Quartz, being a manufactured stone, has a greater variety