Kitchen sinks and cabinets are sized on two different systems, and that mismatch is where most sizing mistakes start. A "33-inch cabinet" is 33 inches on the outside; the sink...
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A workstation sink looks like a regular kitchen sink with one addition: a ledge machined into the rim, front and back, that lets accessories slide along it like a track....
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A fireclay farmhouse sink is one of the few kitchen purchases where the material really is the story. Fireclay starts as moulded clay, dried slowly, coated in glaze, then fired...
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Ask about granite composite kitchen sinks anywhere in Canada and two names come up almost immediately: Blanco SILGRANIT and Franke Fragranite. Both are roughly 80 per cent natural granite bound...
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Ask a Canadian contractor which bathroom job they quote most often and the answer is usually the same: pull out the old alcove tub, put a walk-in shower in its...
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Walk through any showroom or scroll any product page and you'll see shower glass listed at 6mm, 8mm or 10mm — sometimes as 1/4", 5/16" or 3/8" if the spec...
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There's a moment in every small-bathroom renovation where you realize a standard 60-inch alcove shower simply isn't happening. Basement bathrooms, converted powder rooms, cottage ensuites, older condos — the story...
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Walk into a well-designed new bathroom and there's a good chance the shower has no step at all — the floor simply continues into the wet zone. Curbless (or "zero-threshold")...
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Walk into a recently renovated Canadian bathroom and there's a real chance the shower walls aren't tile at all. Large-format wall panels — the kind of systems Kohler and MAAX...
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Walk into a Canadian rental unit, finished basement, or cottage bathroom and odds are the shower is a moulded acrylic or fibreglass unit rather than tile. There’s a reason for...
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From across the showroom, two glass shower doors can look nearly identical. Get closer and the frameless vs semi frameless shower question comes into focus: one is built around thick,...
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Stand in front of the shower door section long enough and the terms start to blur: pivot, sliding, bypass, semi-frameless, return panel. The good news is that the pivot vs...
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Ask a contractor to quote a new shower and the first fork in the road is always the floor: drop in an acrylic base, or build a fully tiled pan?...
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