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The remodeled showroom has nine kitchen displays, three bathroom displays, and a home office area. The update cost $80,000 and was completed by the company's crew in nine months. Leon used display allowances from three cabinetry companies to create the new displays.
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From the minute Dan Luck took over Modern Kitchen in 1989, the name of the company bothered him. The family-owned company had been around since 1963, and the moniker had limited it ever since. “It says modern and it says kitchen,” Luck says. “People would ask if we did entertainment centers and...
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Swingline Windows has been exhibiting at the Pittsburgh Home and Garden show for 17 years. But this past March was the first time the company didn't build a booth but, rather, towed its exhibit onto the show floor.
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Reico Kitchen & Bath is a kitchen and bath supplier that has expanded its scope to aid contractors and homeowners. The flexible East Coast distributor provides expert staff for design services and beautiful showrooms for product selection services.
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For most remodelers, customer service is something that happens only after a job is completed. But the most important kind of customer service takes place before the project begins.
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So I give clients a deadline for selecting products and make them commit to getting it taken care of. Going with clients to the showroom allows me to ensure that the products they select will be appropriate to the design.
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Operating a showroom helps you control the selection process, but it's expensive. There are alternatives.
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Disney's Main Street USA concept has always intrigued remodeler Tim Thompson. While clients who visit the new Thompson Building Associates showroom in Columbus, Ohio, stand agape at the facades, Thompson says it's the employees who get the real kick out of the $45,000 extra he spent to make his...
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To introduce and sell lighting design to his customers, electrician Phil Blosser created a "lighting lab" in Blosser Electric's expanded Telford, Pa., office space. Rather than just talking about lighting design basics, Blosser actually demonstrates to customers how accent, task, and ambient...
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What happens in the kitchen/bath showroom on a designer's computer screen and what takes place in the field when a job's installed are often not the same. So when designers are hired at Tegeler Design & Remodeling, Hiawatha, Iowa, they're required, as part of their training, to work on three or...