Directors Insights - How to Create a Family Friendly Kitchen

As a home's most used room, your kitchen can sometimes be overwhelmed with foot traffic, specifically from your children. It's a catch-22 because you want to spend time with your kids as much as possible, but without a functional design, preparing meals with little feet pitter-pattering around you and little hands grabbing at anything can be challenging.

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Directors Insights - What Colour Countertops Look Good With White Cabinets

White kitchen cabinetry is a timeless trend for its neat, clean look and the brightness it brings to the room. Additionally, white cabinets are a versatile foundation for creating a stylish kitchen that welcomes guests and reflects your taste. 

G & M connects highly-skilled and experienced interior designers with clients, and Collectively we can conceptualise a beautiful, eye-catching kitchen design centred around your white bespoke cabinetry. 

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Directors Insights - Key Elements For A Functional Kitchen Island Bench

With open-concept kitchen designs almost being the default choice at this point, kitchen islands have become a staple in kitchen renovations, and new home builds. 

A kitchen island can add style to your space but it’s important to focus on functionality. It can provide more counter space for you to prepare or eat meals and convenient access to necessary kitchen items.

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Directors Insights - Tips For Choosing Your Kitchen Cabinet Handles

Kitchen cabinet handles may be small, but they can have a huge impact on the aesthetic and functionality of your kitchen. 

For kitchen renovations and new home kitchen designs, it is always important to set your budget before deciding on your kitchen’s features.  But it’s important to understand handle pricing before you set your budget, so we have compiled a list of considerations for selecting the right cabinet handles for your kitchen.

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Directors Insights - Kitchen Renovations: How To Stay Within Your Budget Without Compromising

While G & M’s kitchen designs incorporate functional and aesthetically pleasing features, we are dedicated to working with clients to produce cost-effective solutions. 

We are proud of the custom joinery and cabinetry we provide our clients, but custom doesn’t mean you need to break the bank to feature our craftsmanship. Our team can design a kitchen that meets your style brief while remaining within your budget.

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Directors Insights - How To Make Your Functional Kitchen Beautiful

As the most used area of your home, it’s important for your kitchen to be functional. But G & M ensure aesthetics never takes a backseat when designing kitchen spaces. 

Your kitchen is the centre of your home, and if you’re spending a lot of time there, shouldn’t it be an inviting space also? 

Somewhere you actually want to prepare meals? 

You don’t have to sacrifice style for functionality. To add something special, think outside the box when deciding on your standard features. 

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Directors Insights - Laundry Goals

It is designed by them, for them. But if you'll take time to create an aesthetically pleasing kitchen or bathroom because you spend a lot of time in those spaces, why not your laundry?

We welcome clients who come to us with a clear vision for their space. But for those who need help figuring out where to start, we suggest looking at the size of your laundry and understanding your washing machine and dryer types will affect your storage options.

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Directors Insights - Why A Butler's Pantry Is So Handy? Yay or Nay?

More and more, our G & M Craftsman clients are asking us to design and install butler’s pantries for added luxury to their homes. There was a time when some may have dismissed a butler’s pantry as too extravagant and an added expense. But a butler's pantry has almost become a prerequisite when building a new home or completing a kitchen renovation.

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Directors Insights - Is Now The Time To Renovate?

Choosing to renovate your home is a huge decision. Whether your family is growing or your design tastes are evolving, a renovation is the best way to accommodate lifestyle changes while maintaining your home's sentimental value.

More and more, our clients are requesting remodeling consults and designs to upgrade their homes and inject personality into their personal space.

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Directors Insights - 5 Tips To Avoid Price Shock When Renovating

Our clients can be very surprised at the cost of a large scale renovation or design project; we know that they aren’t trying to be cheap and unrealistic, they’re simply not used to shopping for quality materials the way that we are.

Here are a few tips for you to use to avoid being shocked when it comes to designing your space.

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December Directors Insights - Kitchen Renovation Costs

The magic question… "What is the real cost of a kitchen renovation?" Budgets are important and everyone wants to know before they start their kitchen renovation. The best answer is every project is different so there really is no straight answer. The major cost factors are determined by the size of the project, the schedule of finishes, and the tradespeople needed for the project. Using new benchtops as an example. Depending on whether you choose from laminate, a natural stone or engineered stone, the price difference can be thousands of dollars. Generally, they split into the following kitchen renovation cost brackets.

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November Directors Insights - Natural Stone VS Man-Made Stone

When it comes to doing a new kitchen or renovate an existing one the most popular choice for benchtops is stone, but what is the best choice between natural stone or man-made stone? Numerous masons and wholesalers are offering beautiful choices between the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast. They offer both options, so which one is better? The answer to this question will help you choose a good benchtop material.

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July Directors Insights

As a part of constant business development, we look at new or potential client feedback and reviews all the time. One of the most constant parts of information we receive is that clients are needing or wanting a company to take control of the whole project. That means from the day they sign on everything will be handled start to finish by the head contractor being G&M.

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