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Exciting Inspo for Your Dream Kitchen Design!

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Your kitchen is more than just a place to prepare meals – it’s the heart of your home, where family gathers, memories are made, and culinary creativity flourishes. As a Texas custom luxury home builder, we understand the importance of crafting a kitchen that not only reflects your style and personality but also incorporates modern trends and timeless elements. If you’re seeking inspiration for your dream kitchen design, look no further. Here are some fun and beautiful ideas that are both modern and enduring:

  1. Open Concept Layout: Embrace the ever-popular trend of open-concept living by creating a seamless flow between your kitchen, dining area and living space. Removing walls and barriers allows for better interaction with family and guests, while maximizing natural light and creating a sense of spaciousness.
  2. High-End Appliances: Invest in high-quality, professional-grade appliances by brands like Wolf, Sub-Zero and Viking, that combine style and functionality. From sleek stainless steel finishes to smart technology features, modern appliances not only elevate the aesthetic appeal of your kitchen but also enhance efficiency and performance.
  3. Statement Lighting: Make a bold statement with striking lighting fixtures that serve as both functional and decorative elements in your kitchen. Whether it’s a dazzling chandelier above the island, pendant lights over the dining area, or under-cabinet lighting for task illumination, lighting plays a crucial role in setting the mood and ambiance of your culinary space. Lighting is definitely one aspect of a dream kitchen that you should’t skimp on.
  4. Luxury Materials: Choose premium materials that exude elegance and durability, such as quartz countertops, marble backsplashes and hardwood flooring. These classic materials not only add sophistication to your kitchen design but also withstand the test of time, ensuring long-lasting beauty and functionality. It’s still quite popular to mix up your home’s motif by using paint, wallpaper and tile.
  5. Custom Cabinetry: Opt for custom-built cabinetry that maximizes storage space and showcases your personal style. From sleek modern designs to classic shaker styles, custom cabinets allow for endless customization options, including personalized finishes, hardware and organizational features tailored to your specific needs.
  6. Integrated Technology: Embrace the latest advancements in kitchen technology by incorporating smart features and integrated appliances. From touchless faucets and voice-activated controls to built-in charging stations and Wi-Fi-enabled appliances, technology enhances convenience, efficiency and connectivity in your culinary space. Once you have it, you can’t live without it!
  7. Traditional Color Palette: If this is important to you, stick to a neutral color palette with timeless appeal, such as crisp white, soft gray, or warm taupe, accented with pops of color for visual interest that are easier to refresh. Neutral hues provide a versatile backdrop that complements any design style and allows for easy customization with decor and accessories. Original artwork is a great way to easily change up the vibe of any room.
  8. Functional Layout: Design a kitchen layout that prioritizes functionality and workflow, ensuring effortless movement and accessibility between key areas such as the sink, stove, and refrigerator. Incorporate ample counter space, storage solutions, and designated zones for food prep, cooking and dining to optimize efficiency and organization.
  9. Natural Elements: Since the pandemic, the idea of bringing the beauty of the outdoors inside has become increasingly popular. This can be achieved by incorporating natural elements such as wood accents, stone finishes, and indoor plants into your kitchen design. These organic elements add warmth, texture and visual appeal, creating a welcoming and harmonious environment that reflects the natural beauty of Texas.
  10. Personalized Touches: Infuse your kitchen with personal touches and meaningful details that reflect your lifestyle, interests and even heritage. Whether it’s family photos or heirloom accessories, these personal elements add character and personality to your culinary space, making it truly one-of-a-kind.

Designing your ideal kitchen is a wonderful opportunity to blend modern trends with timeless elegance, creating a space that is as functional as it is beautiful. Ready to bring your dream kitchen to life? Contact us today to learn more about our custom luxury home building services and let’s start designing the culinary space of your dreams!

It’s All in the Design!

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We’d like to introduce you to our phenomenal residential designer, Shawn Campbell of Campbell Designs. He’s the gentlemen responsible for creating the magnificent custom home designs for our clients. He’s able to take all your dreams and aspirations for your new home and translate them into a plan from which we build. It’s fair to say, we couldn’t do it without him!

Shawn started his career as a residential designer in Dallas over 20 years ago. When he began, he was even drawing by hand. This was before the inception of the advanced designing software commonly used today.

We’ve been working with Shawn for over 10 years now. When we sat down with him to ask his advice on how to help make the process more seamless for our clients, he offered these tips:

  • Know what you want. So many people get started but don’t really know what they want, which results in having to continually make changes, costing time and money.
  • Have a firm grasp of your budget. Coming in with a clear budget helps inform, not just the design, but every element of the entire project.
  • Make a list of your priorities. What aspects of your new home are most important to you? Say, for example, you know you want a luxurious primary bath, a three car garage and a really amazing view of the lake, then that’s our starting point, and we design the layout of the home around those priorities.
  • Be open to alternative that fit within your budget. While we always really appreciate the photos people find in magazines and online of home elements that they really like, it’s often those really cool details that get cut because of budget restrictions. However, I do my best to give the client what they want while making the house affordable and buildable. For example, a lot of people want curtain walls these days (with the metal frames and glass in-between) but they’re very expensive, so alternatively, I can implement large windows with wood frames that are close together, giving it a similar effect.

Trends Shawn is seeing in new home designs:

  • What’s still really popular right now is the modern farmhouse design, with one big rectangle as the layout for the main public spaces that includes a kitchen on one side, dining table in the middle and the living room on the other side. I haven’t designed a formal living room or dining room in a long time.
  • As you might imagine, we’re still seeing more home offices.
  • Guest rooms and kids’ rooms are getting a little bit smaller, as they’re less of a priority.
  • Not everyone ones likes a soaker tub in the primary bath anymore. It’s nice to have, but not everyone really uses it.

Shawn has worked with several builders over the years and still does. He told us: Stone Creek Custom Homes is the number one builder I work for. If anyone asks me which builder I recommend, I always say Stone Creek.

Thank you, Shawn, we feel the same way!