Our 5 Favourite Kitchen & Bath Trends from IDS 2016

Last month, Monarch designers headed to the Interior Design Show (IDS) in Toronto. Every year, the IDS shapes the industry for the year to come by celebrating leading brands, innovative speakers and rising local talents. This year, the spotlight was on Canadian-made products and small-batch designers. Here are five of designer Jackie Schagen's favourite trends from the show:

New and improved corner drawers from Blum

Rich colour and texture in engineered wood flooring

New colours to come from Miralis kitchen cabinetry

Unique textures in glass for showers and other partitions

New colour from Cambria -- Brittanicca

Whether you're planning a major home renovation or modest redesign, Monarch's design team will help you stay on top of the newest products and design trends for your home. Call us today at 905-686-2001 or drop by our showroom to speak with one of our designers.

Did Your Kitchen Work For You or Against You Over the Holidays?

Nothing puts the functionality of your kitchen to the test like hosting a big dinner for friends and family.

While a bigger kitchen provides more space for preparing multiple courses and having more helpers on hand, if your kitchen is not organized properly, your frustration level can go through the roof!

Whether your space is big, small or somewhere in between, you can make your kitchen work for you with the help of some of these sanity-saving options from Blum:

Deep pot drawers with lids easily accessible

Food storage simplified

Plastic containers

 

Spice organization

Maximize that hard-to-reach corner storage!

Under the sink storage

 

A place for trays, cutting boards and bottles

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Monarch Kitchen and Bath Centre Designers Discover New and Amazing Things from Blum

Monarch Kitchen and Bath Centre Designers Discover New and Amazing Things from Blum

What is Blum?
Blum is an international company that specializes in the fittings and functional uses of furniture. In other words, the slides, glides, drawers, organizational pieces and hinges that go into your kitchen! Blum has been manufacturing for more than 60 years and is a market leader in the development of new and innovative products.

Fans of Blum’s exceptional products since their early days working as designers, Monarch’s design team was excited to visit Blum’s Mississauga headquarters and see what new products they had to offer.



Servo-Drive
“The state-of-the-art technology that goes into Blum Servo-Drive is amazing to see,” says designer Amanda Willson-Suppa. With the push of a cabinet door, Servo-Drive pushes the cabinet open. “We thought this would be ideal for use in a garbage can unit since you are able to open it without using your entire hand.”

Image courtesy of blum.com

Blum also had some great slow-closing devices on display. At one time, lift-up cabinets didn’t have the ability to slow-close. Now they can thanks to some of the new hinging systems that Blum offers.

A place for everything and everything in its place.
The other item that caught our designers’ attention was Blum’s foil and plastic wrap dispensers! This brings organization to a new level. You don’t even need to have Blum hardware in your existing kitchen to accommodate these new organizational tools.

Interested in turning your unorganized utensil drawer into a functional kitchen storage space? Call Monarch today and one of our designers would be happy to show you how easy it is to incorporate Blum into your home.