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During the April 2012 High Point Market #hpmkt, our newest introductions included the latest additions to our transitional American Treasures ® collection.  Featuring clean lines and simple classic styles, these made-to-order designs are crafted right here in the USA in our North Georgia design studios.

As reported on the High Point market site – www.highpointmarket.org – we were right on target.

“Design leaders at the High Point Market saw a continued push for Made in America and artisan or handmade looks. Editor at Large interviewed designers and exhibitors at the April Market to get their take on style directions. They also said we should look for more tailored and sleek designs in the future.”

Click here to see a video from Spring High Point Market   featuring interviews with Martha Stewart, Bunny Williams and others talking about what they saw trending at market.

Our new Biltmore ® Cornelia’s Cloister Bed was the  “Hit of High Point “ for us during the recent Spring 2012 Spring Market.  The reactions — gasps of surprise and delight from dealers and designers alike who visited our showroom during the home furnishings trade show – were  fun to watch as they rounded the corner into the room where this new piece was showcased.

The latest  addition to our  licensed Biltmore® Chateau Reserve Collection, this twin bed design was inspired by the Sheraton Room at Biltmore House in Asheville, NC.  The Cloister Bed is neoclassical in style and shares a headboard and canopy, creating a large-scale image of grandeur.

The wood is indicative of early 19th century architectural cloisters, where  covered walks in monasteries, colleges and cathedrals had one walled side and one open colonnade.   The piece is named for Cornelia Vanderbilt, only child of Biltmore’s visionary creator George Vanderbilt and his wife Edith. Cornelia grew up at Biltmore and was truly, as the estate’s website describes,  a “princess of a 250-room castle and its 8000-acre kingdom.”

We continue to expand and enhance our custom cabinetry capabilities to create designs that conform to our clients’ specialized requests.  If you can envision it, we can build it.  And, if you can’t quite envision it, but have a general idea of the special features you’re looking for, we’ll come up with a design solution for you!

Take, for example, the drop-down spice rack, shown here.  Offering easy access to cooking spices, this particular design makes maximum use of limited cabinet space.

Click here to see some of the other convenience and storage features we’ve engineered into some recent cabinetry projects.  And contact us today to learn how we can help you create custom cabinetry designs that reflect your own sense of style and effectively respond to your lifestyle needs.

We continue to fine-tune our kitchen cabinetry capabilities to respond to the requests and design desires of our clients.

While demand remains strong for our Grand European Casual looks, we’re also seeing more and more requests for looks that are simpler in style – with classically inspired, yet cleaner,  simpler lines and more transitional influences as shown in the new kitchen design here.

Whatever your design preference, we can help create the kitchen of your dreams!  Contact us today to discuss your home design project.

We’re recently returned from the Spring 2012 High Point Market where the newest additions to our American Treasures® and Biltmore® Chateau Reserve Collections were unveiled.  The feedback we received from our dealer and interior designer clients was extremely positive and we wanted to share all our new introductions with you as well.

So click here to visit the Market News section of our website and see all the designs our trade customers saw in our High Point Showroom, including our latest custom cabinetry capabilities.  And, let us know what you think.  Our design team is studying trends and design directions to make sure we’re coming up with innovative and unique designs that keep us ahead of the design curve.

Remember too that all of our furniture and cabinetry is  customizable so we can custom-tailor our designs to reflect your own sense of style!

Are you using Houzz.com?  Habersham has recently begun adding images and design projects to Houzz.com and we’d love to hear what you think about this site too.

If you haven’t checked it out, you can do so by linking here. If you don’t know about it, Houzz is a fast –growing destination site for home design enthusiasts – professionals and home owners alike.

As their website explains, the Houzz site and mobile apps feature more than 250,000 high quality interior and exterior photos, thousands of highly-engaging articles written by design experts, product recommendations and social tools to manage the remodeling and decorating process.

On Houzz, designers can showcase portfolios and share their work.  Already, more than 40,000 professionals have uploaded more than 250,000 inspiring photographs.

In addition, homeowners can collect their favorite photos, find design professionals in their areas, upload photos of their homes and gardens and share tips and questions with other members.

Check it out —  www.houzz.com — and let us know what you think.

At Habersham, we see our dealers as our true marketing partners.  Their relationships with customers, marketing efforts, merchandising techniques and other talents truly help our line shine.   To that point, we’re going to be adding a regular blog feature where we put a spotlight on some of our wonderful dealer partners.

This month we’re highlighting S Decenzo Designs out of Little Silver, NJ.  They’ve recently added a new Habersham custom kitchen cabinetry display to their beautiful 4,000-square-foot showroom in Little Silver, NJ. Click here to read that post.

And look for more posts on our other dealers coming soon.

More than 350 National Kitchen & Bath Association member designers took part in the 2012 National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) Design Trends Survey to cite the materials, product types, and styles that they’ve incorporated into their kitchen and bath designs over the final three months of 2011. While broad trends won’t be evident in every local market, the survey called out a number of overall trends for kitchens and baths across the United States and Canada.  Among them:

Transitional over Traditional

For the first time since the NKBA began tracking annual design trends, traditional is no longer the most popular type of design. In both the kitchen and the bathroom, transitional is now the most common style. While the traditional style has consistently been used by roughly three quarters of NKBA member designers in both the kitchen and the bath, that figure fell to 58% in kitchens and 59% in bathrooms this year.

These figures come in just below the transitional style, which is a blend of traditional and contemporary, typified by lines that are simpler than traditional, but a bit more elaborate than contemporary in order to create a modern classic look. Contemporary is the next most common style, up 5% to 52% in kitchens and up 10% to 53% in bathrooms from a year ago. Shaker, arts & crafts, and cottage remain the next most frequently used styles.

Here at Habersham we’re constantly fine-tuning our custom cabinetry capabilities to create kitchen and bath designs that truly reflect the design tastes and styles of our customers.  So whether you’re looking for transitional or traditional styles, we can help you create the space of your dreams.  Contact us today!

Pinterest is perhaps the fastest growing social media tool on the market today.  And for those of you who are using it (and you are many – more than 10 million and counting!) you know why. Pinterest lets you share and organize all the beautiful things you find on the web.

Habersham is on Pinterest and we invite you to follow us – www.pinterest.com/habershamhome .  We’ll be adding new boards as our design team shares their newest designs, inspiration, colors, trends and more.  Happy pinning!

We’ve just made a number of upgrades and improvements to our website to make it easier to explore than ever.  Now you can:

See our entire furniture line – Before we showcased just a  sampling of our designs.  We’ve now added the entire line and categorized it for optimum convenience.

Explore our market introductions –We’ve  added an area on the site where you’ll be able to get a preview of items we introduce at the semi-annual High Point Market – before they make it to the retail showroom floor or designer gallery.

Gather wonderful design ideas by exploring even more of our home projects and cabinetry installations around the country.

We’ll also be dramatically expanding the cabinetry section of the site so make plans to return often to see our newest additions!