Kitchen Remodel | Kitchen Cabinets | Santa Clara | Overlay

April 15, 2011

When selecting kitchen cabinets for your kitchen remodel one important concept is “overlay”, which refers to how much of the cabinet is covered by the doors and draw front. The types or styles of overlay are: Full overlay – none of the cabinet is visible behind the drawer front and door front. Partial overlay – [...]

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Kitchen Remodel | Kitchen Cabinets | San Jose | Framed or frameless?

April 15, 2011

To understand the concept of framed or frameless kitchen cabinets, please refer to the pictures below. The phrase “framed” or “frameless” refers to the front of the cabinet. The picture on the left shows a framed cabinet where there is wood around the edges of the front of the cabinet which you see when the [...]

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Kitchen Remodel | Kitchen Cabinets | Sunnyvale | Anatomy of a Cabinet

April 15, 2011

Even though you are not planning to build your own kitchen cabinets for your kitchen remodel, it pays to know some about how cabinets are constructed. This article describes the anatomy of a cabinet. The picture on the right is a big crowded and has to be expanded to see the detail, but the main [...]

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Kitchen Remodel | Kitchen Cabinets | San Jose

April 14, 2011

The single largest expense in your kitchen remodel project is your kitchen cabinets. As such, selecting yours is probably the single most important decision you will make. This series of articles is intended to give you information to help you make your selection, by providing you information about types and styles, methods of constructions, materials [...]

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Recessed Lighting | Monte Sereno | Where should you put recessed lighting

April 14, 2011

We’ve been asked “Where should I put recessed lighting”? I’m going to flip the question into “Where does recessed lighting work best”? Recessed lighting works best where: a) It is desirable for the light to shine through a “hole” in the ceiling with no visible fixture AND b) You have no plans to ever re-aim [...]

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Recessed Lighting | San Jose | Watts vs Lumens

April 14, 2011

When talking about recessed lighting (or for that matter any lighting) is is important to understand what are watts and what are lumens. A watt is a measure of power. It is what you pay for when you pay your electric bill. A lumen is a measure of light intensity. Lumens are generated as watts [...]

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Recessed Lighting | Portola Valley | Bulb Types

April 13, 2011

The aspects of your recessed lighting light is determined by the bulb, not the fixture. To make parts of the article below clearer, I will provide two definitions now: Lumens is a measure of light intensity. Watts is a measure of power consumption. There are various bulb types commonly used in recessed lighting: Incandescent This [...]

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Recessed Lighting | San Jose | Remodel Fixtures

April 13, 2011

It is easier to install recessed lighting during a remodel project when you use the remodel fixtures that have been created for just that purpose. As you can see from the picture, it is possible to: cut your holes in the ceiling (but cut them carefully) snake the wiring from hole to hole make your [...]

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Recessed Lighting | Woodside | New Construction Fixtures

April 13, 2011

The most important thing about a new construction recessed lighting fixture is that it must be installed from above the ceiling. As you can see from the picture, there is a frame that is nailed to the ceiling joists and which in turn hold both the can and the junction box, where the wire splices [...]

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Recessed Lighting | San Jose | Accent lighting

April 12, 2011

Recessed lighting accent lighting is a specialized form of recessed lighting. As you can see from the pictures, there is sometimes a cover with a hole that helps focus the light and there is sometimes a fixture that protrudes down a little from the housing and which can be aimed. Accent lighting is used when [...]

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