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Kitchens are a focal point of our homes. Designing a kitchen to be functional as well as a warm and inviting environment where family and friends can gather is our specialty. Your kitchen remodel must be functional as well as flow seamlessly with the other rooms in your home.

Your Northville area Kitchen Remodeling design professionals at Long Kitchen & Bath Design, will work with you to select all the design elements of your kitchen that are right for you. We take into consideration how you and your family use your kitchen, how you entertain, how you cook, your storage needs, and the look and feel that you are striving to achieve. The end result is a completely customized kitchen transformation that fits you, your family, your tastes, and your budget perfectly.

Get started today!

Our very own designer, Lori Mounts, is the voice and the person you see in this little educational video on Shower Cleaning. Enjoy!

Shower Cleaning Video from Kyle Hunt on Vimeo.

We were recently featured (on the cover!) of Plumbing & Mechanical Magazine.

Read the article here:

Up On Main Street

During the month of September, we will be will be featuring Medallion Cabinetry.

When you Buy 10 cabinets you’ll receive a free sink base cabinet!

Stop into our showroom for more details and to see this great cabinet line.

Ugh…you don’t want to look at your aging and deteriorating kitchen or bath any longer, but you see the inevitable is about to overtake, whether you like it or not.  There is the overwhelming dread of mastering such a project on you own, managing it, and then creating a realistic budget in these uncertain times.  Let me postulate some strategies that can develop some attainable remodeling goals. 

The first consideration is to determine the length of time you will realistically be staying in your home. This will be key to setting a budget, but we will discuss that further on.

The second step is to make an appointment with a designer.  The value placed in design services will supersede any errors of individual inexperience, and those can be costly.

Third, hinged on points one and two, its time to obtain an estimate.  An experienced designer will be able to steer you through to choices that will be able to meet your financial goals.  Yet most individuals find themselves with “Champaign taste on a beer budget,” soooo… here is where we come to step four, progressive staging. 

Successful designs most often integrate one material with another.  Meaning that replacing one item to meet monetary goals may mean another item or surface may be affected.  This is where your budgeting will need to be staged into categories or over a timeline.  Let me give you an example: I would recommend that if you want to replace countertops in your kitchen, consideration to the condition and longevity of the cabinetry would need to be factored into the decision.

Sample sales, clearance and promotions are great to investigate.  There are many fabricators and vendors sending out stimulus promo’s to help the public right now.  Clearance items can be hidden treasures, so don’t forget to ask what may be available.

Now with these helpful tips you can begin to transform your dreams into realities that are obtainable.  Take your first remodeling step and “just do it.”  Hope to see you soon,

Karol

We need to make room for the latest and greatest design trends! Come check out the displays that are on sale.

You can view several of the items on the Clearance sections of our website as well:

• Faucets
• Lighting
• Toilets
• Medicine Cabinets
• Accessories

Santec has a long standing history of offering superior quality faucets within a large variety of styles and finishes.

During the month of July, stop by our showroom and check out our 30% off sale on all Santec faucets!

The Designer Bath Series has 26 finishes available in all the faucet styles. Another option is to split the finish on any Designer bath series faucets (i.e. chrome and gold.)

The Estate Series offers a smaller selection of faucets styles available in 3 finishes, thus making it a more economical line. We have 7 styles in stock in Chrome and Satin Nickel.

Both lines offer matching shower faucets and accessories.

The newest addition to the Santec family is the Kitchen Series. The kitchen faucets range from contemporary and traditional to commercial style faucets. Commercial style faucets are very popular trend right now.

Stop by and check out our 30% off sale on all Santec faucets in July!

Have you seen the commercial where a lady pulls a faucet out of her purse and asks the architect to design a house around it?

I wish It was that simple!!!!!!! There are a lot of questions that need to be asked before you can decide which faucet that is right for you. Finish, style, function, single hole or wide spread, manufacture, and warranty.

At Long’s we pride ourselves on selling stylish, functional and quality plumbing fixtures. We are here to help you with your questions and selections. What finish is right for my bathroom/kitchen? What faucets will reflect my style?  What brand do you recommend? What kind of warranty and service can I expect from the manufacture after the sale?

From July 1-31st 2009 we have Santec faucets and plumbing fixtures on sale for 30% below suggested retail.

Santec has some beautifully designed unique faucets that will be a wonderful addition to your bath and/or kitchen. With 25 finishes and 38 styles Santec creates abundant opportunity to find the perfect faucet for you.  Stop by and check them out today!

Tired of cleaning all that metal and glass on your shower door?

Say goodbye to that heavy metal look. Today’s new shower doors are available semi frameless or with minimum of metal.

Doors come in a variety of glass styles and frames to match the most popular faucets and bath hardware styles on the market today.

Also available on new doors are protective coatings applied to the glass that help keep your doors cleaner and newer looking.

Visit our showroom for styles and pricing.

If you have tried shopping for a toilet lately you most likely have been barraged by choices. White vs. biscuit. Round vs. elongated. Less water vs. more water. ADA height? And the list goes on. But what does it all mean!

When purchasing a toilet, first focus on comfort and flush ratings. Over the past 20 years the average height of a person has increased, so most people find a comfort height/ADA height toilet more comfortable. I am only 5’1” so I prefer the conventional height toilet.

For a good flush you will want to research the ratings of the toilet in question, along with how many grams it can flush per min. Rest assure that anything in the 800-1000 range is a fantastic toilet.

Less water… don’t fret if you toilet has less water that your use to, toilets have been 1.6gpf for quite sometime now, and yes they really do flush. The majority of them are quite as well.

If you would like to see examples of different toilet shapes, sizes, flushes, and of course finish colors. Stop by our showroom and one of our knowledgeable designers can match you with the right toilet and set up you installation.