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Ready To Remodel Your Kitchen? We Can Help!

The talented architects at TAB Associates can make sure your new kitchen design is both attractive and functional.

The kitchen is the heart of your home. It’s a place where you cook, laugh, eat and interact with family members. It’s a place that deserves to have a character all its own. The talented architects at TAB Associates can make sure your new kitchen design is both attractive and functional.

Today’s kitchens are more spacious than ever. Offering kitchen islands, tall cabinets with glass doors to call attention to your fine china, and carefully shaped stone counter tops, they have more elements than ever before. By hiring an experienced architect, you can ensure that all of these elements coordinate perfectly to create a cohesive space.

You have an array of styles to choose from. Traditional kitchens designed with antique finishes and plenty of wood stand in stark contrast to modern kitchens with clean lines, geometric patterns and bold color schemes. TAB Associates can help you decide which kitchen style best suits the rest of your home decor, and can make some design suggestions to get you started on the right track.

Before you start your kitchen remodeling project, contact TAB Associates. Let us put our 30 years of experience in architecture and interior design to work for you.

Tips for Designing A Home Office

Location, furniture, and windows are some of the hinges for how and where to construct your home office.

A home office can be an incredibly convenient thing to have, even if you don’t work from home. This is because a home office can provide you with a private space to get work done, whether it’s paying the bills, studying or more. The following are a few tips to help you design a home office:

Location – Consider what type of environment you work best in. Do you need a private space away from the sounds of your family? Do you need a lot of space to work comfortably in?
Furniture – Don’t just pick up furniture that will help make your home office functional – consider form as well. Your home office should compliment the other rooms in your home. You don’t want it to feel like a typical office, after all.
Windows – If you can, face your desk against a window. Not only will this provide you with a view to provide some relief from work, but it will also give you plenty of healthy natural light.

These are a few things to consider when designing your home office. For additional design tips and information concerning home offices, be sure to contact us at TAB Associates.

Cabinet Styles and Trends For Your Bathroom

The bathroom cabinets are some of the most flexible in terms of style, which means there are a lot of design choices that you can make.

One of the best ways to introduce a little bit of style in your bathroom is via your cabinets. The bathroom cabinets are some of the most flexible in terms of style, which means there are a lot of design choices that you can make. The following are a few bathroom trends concerning cabinet styles that you should consider:

Furniture-like cabinets– To make the bathroom feel less like a bathroom, use cabinetry that resembles furniture. For example, picking a bathroom vanity that has legs, drawers and open shelving, where you can display bottles, towels and décor.
Open shelving – Cabinets without doors are a great way to display items as well as make them more accessible. They also help make the bathroom feel more spacious and open.
Medicine cabinets – Medicine cabinets are quite useful as they serve two functions by providing you with a mirror as well a storage.
Sleek cabinets – For a more modern or contemporary look, go with cabinets that have flat fronts instead of more ornate designs. This happens to make them easier to clean as well.

Consider these cabinet styles for your bathroom. For more bathroom design ideas, contact us at TAB Associates today.

How to Design an Extravagant Dining Room

Lend some flair and flourish to your home with some ideas from these extravagant dining room designs.

Time passes while people come and go, but luxury in the home is something that never goes out of style. As a result, if you are interested in lending your home some flair and flourish, you should consider perusing some of the extravagant dining room designs that can be found out there.

Use these tips to create an extravagant dining room:

If you find rooms done in a single style to be overbearing and uncomfortable, mix and match with other styles to create a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
The dining room should have soft, warm lighting since it is a place of relaxation, but not all lights are equal to one another. If you have insufficient space for a full-sized chandelier, consider getting one of its miniature counterparts.
A gorgeous rug can be the exact element needed to complete the dining room. As a general rule, it should be big enough to host both the dining table and its seating, which is also small enough to contrast well with hardwood flooring.
Don’t neglect details such as crown moulding, wainscoting, and ornamental woodcarvings.

To learn more about our services, please contact us at TAB Associates.

Lighting Trends That Will Top in 2015

In contrast to their enormous and extravagant predecessors, mini-chandeliers are perfect for rooms with limited space, ranging from attic bedrooms to even baths and kitchens. That said, their upscale counterparts are also making a comeback.

Lighting can have enormous effect on the comfort of the home, making it a topic of enormous interest to interior designers. As a result, keeping up-to-date about the latest lighting trends is essential to ensuring interior design success.

Here are the top lighting trends in 2015:

LEDs are becoming more and more practical, making them the lighting of choice for more and more homeowners. Of particular note is the increasing interest in outdoor LEDs as a result of the increasing interest in outdoor living.
Warm colors have come into fashion, bringing with them a renewed interest in metallic, copper-colored fixtures.
In contrast to their enormous and extravagant predecessors, mini-chandeliers are perfect for rooms with limited space, ranging from attic bedrooms to even baths and kitchens. That said, their upscale counterparts are also making a comeback.
Sources of light have started popping up in all sorts of unexpected spaces to enhance their ease of use. Examples include but are not limited to both cabinets and showers.
More and more homeowners want their lights incorporated into their home security systems for superior protection. At the same time, their wireless setup also results in increased convenience.

Please contact us for more useful information.

Modern Interior Trends for 2015

Eco-friendly materials like stone, metal, and wood are becoming more and more popular in interior design.

As the times change, the prevailing fashions change with them. Interior design is no exception to this rule, meaning that successful interior design is reliant on keeping up with the latest in interior design trends.

Here are some of the interior design trends that promise to be big in 2015:

Eco-consciousness has become more and more important, so it should come as no surprise to learn that natural materials such as stone, metal, and wood are becoming more and more popular in interior design.
Likewise, interest in natural themes has exploded. Examples range from vivid colors and floral decorations to indoor water features and larger windows to let in the light.
More and more interior designers are mixing old and new styles to create stunning but nonetheless comfortable spaces. The combination of the rustic and the retro with the classic and the luxurious makes for excellent complements and contrasts.
At the same time, spaces are becoming more versatile to cater to a range of needs.

Please check out our projects to see how we can put these and other design trends to good use. If you have other inquiries related to our services, please contact us at your earliest convenience.

Tips to Hiring An Interior Designer

An experienced designer can help you find elements that coordinate well, fit into your budget, and will remain in style for years to come.

If you want to create a space that it as functional as possible while also expressing your own personal style, hiring an interior designer is almost essential. An experienced designer can help you find elements that coordinate well, fit into your budget, and will remain in style for years to come. Follow these tips to hire a great designer:

Seek out a designer who will work with you and listen to your ideas rather than taking over the entire process.
Decide how you want to use the space you are decorating, and share this information with designers up front. This is the most important element designers will need to know in order to come up with ideas that will work for your space.
Talk to several designers, and only hire one that’s easy to get along with and professional. You’ll need to interact with this person regularly, so it’s important that you’re compatible.
Don’t be afraid to tell your designer if you don’t like certain ideas. He or she should accommodate your preferences by making changes when requested.

Contact TAB Associates to learn more about our architecture and interior design services.

Allow TAB Associates to Upgrade Your Home Office

Our architects are experts at designing office spaces that work with you, rather than against you, by integrating these and other design ideas.

Upgrading your home office can increase your productivity and make you more comfortable in your workspace. Our architects are experts at designing office spaces that work with you, rather than against you, by integrating these and other design ideas:

A good home office offers plenty of space, so clients can take a seat if they stop by for a visit.
When placing the furniture in the room, it’s essential to consider workflow. Do you move from the computer to a writing desk often? If so, the pathway between the two should be open. Do you frequently grab books of a bookshelf? Then, making that shelf easily accessible is essential.
Forget about bland, boring colors, and paint your home office a color that you find relaxing and inspiring. You’ll be more creative in a space with lively color. Try seafoam green, orange, or even cobalt blue.
Place your office in a space where there’s a great view out the window. Sometimes, you need to stare into a beautiful outdoor space to give your ideas time to develop and to give your eyes a rest.

Are you looking for Vail architects to help create the perfect home office? Contact TAB Associates; we’d love to help.

Top Reasons to Hire An Architect For Your Next Project

Since a home is more than the sum of its parts, an architect is needed to make sure that structural choices will not cause harm elsewhere in the home.

Construction is a complicated and time-consuming endeavor, meaning that both skill and experience are needed to keep mistakes to a minimum. Since even small mistakes in either building or renovating a home can result in significant expenses, the services of an architect are more necessities than luxuries.

Consider these reasons to hire an architect:

Architects possess a more comprehensive set of skills than designers. This makes them particularly well-suited to both more unusual and more challenging tasks.
A home is more than the sum of its parts. This is problematic because a change in one part can cause further changes in other parts of the home. An architect is needed to make sure that structural choices will not cause harm elsewhere in the home.
The neglect of even seemingly unimportant details can lead to serious problems down the road. Hire an architect if you want attention to the details.
Over time, architects accrue both connections and experience working with other experts in the construction industry. These connections ensure that the construction process will flow that much more smoothly for their clients.

To learn more about finding the best Vail Valley architect for your dream home, please contact The Architectural Balance.

Home Renovation Tips By TAB Associates

These tips will help guide you in the right direction for your home's construction. — These tips will help guide you in the right direction for your home’s construction.

Whether you’re making just a couple of changes or entirely gutting your home, remodeling requires a lot of careful planning and decisions. These home renovation tips will help guide you in the right direction.

If you don’t have a lot of experience with a certain aspect of your renovation, such as installing tile or carpeting, hire someone who does. It will cost less to hire someone than it will to make a mistake and have to re-do the entire project.
Ensure that your home, one remodeled, does not stand out from the other homes on the block too much. It’s okay to be a touch unique, but you also don’t want to build a mansion in a neighborhood of cape cods.
Choose elements that are always in style, rather than the trendiest decor. Doing so will ensure your home doesn’t look outdated when you eventually sell it.
Remodel your existing spaces before adding new one, and before finishing unfinished rooms, such as the basement.
Use high-quality materials, or you’ll find that you need to remodel again soon.

Are you looking for an experienced architect to help you re-design your home? Contact TAB Associates to learn about our services.