Looking for the perfect kitchen countertop? Domicile offers a large selection of options to choose from as well as an experienced Kitchen Designer, Ken Burghardt, who is able to match your tastes with a new kitchen design. Whether you like the appearance of wood or want fully customized countertops made from sustainable materials for your modern kitchen, Domicile offers full service benefits from design to product selection making the entire process easy for you.

Kitchen counters should not only accommodate your cooking needs but also add beauty and elegance to the business room in your home. The type of countertop you choose for your kitchen is a crucial decision for overall design and functionality.

We offer a large selection of cabinet and countertops suppliers that offer products made from sustainable materials.

PaperStone Kitchen Countertops

PaperStone manufactures its material from 100% post-consumer recycled paper that has been saturated with their proprietary phenolic resins. PaperStone’s non-porous surface provides a lifetime of stain resistance and absorbs virtually no water. In addition surface cuts or mars can be easily sanded or rubbed out with an abrasive pad leaving surfaces looking new.

PaperStone designs and manufactures their products in Grays Harbor to be good for the environment and good for the earth. They are committed to making innovative products competitively affordable and globally accessible.

Domicile actively seeks suppliers and other partners who share our values. Collectively, we can change the economic landscape and make a difference in the world.

We invite you to drop by our showroom
Sobel Design Building
680 Eighth Street, Suite 166
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-864-0800

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Your kitchen cabinets are often the most prominent feature of your kitchen, so choosing the perfect style and material for your kitchen’s design is essential. Whether you are looking for a traditional or modern feel, Domicile has the perfect cabinetry for every home.

San Francisco Custom Kitchen Cabinets

Domicile can help you choose the custom cabinets to fit your specific needs. Cabinets that are not only beautifully matched to your kitchen’s design, but also crafted around unique architecture or appliances like an oversized fridge or dishwasher. Choose from an assortment of green materials to make your custom kitchen a sustainable as well as beautiful addition to your home.

Kitchen Cabinet Configurations

There are many ways in which kitchen cabinets can be configured within in your kitchen. They can sit on the floor with a counter on top, attached to the wall, or sit on the floor and extend to the ceiling. Base kitchen cabinets are configured so the cabinet sits on your kitchen floor with a countertop fastened on top. Choose from our displays of kitchen countertops and let us help you build the perfect combination of cabinet and countertop. Wall mounted kitchen cabinets attach to your wall either flush against the ceiling or as floaters. Full-height cabinets extend from your floor to your ceiling and come in different so even taller kitchen ceilings can accommodate spacious and beautiful cabinets.

Traditional to Modern Kitchen Cabinets

Traditional kitchens have a formal, elegant look characteristic of 18th, 19th and early 20th century American and European homes. Typical design styles in this category include Victorian and Edwardian. Expect to see more ornate molding and trim; elegant cabinets in cherry, walnut and mahogany; and antique fixtures and appliances.

Modern, minimalist and geometric are adjectives used to describe contemporary design. When it comes to kitchen cabinets characteristics include horizontal lines, asymmetry and a lack of molding and other ornamentation.

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Last year, TRUE POWER consolidated standard AC receptacles with USB chargers. You no longer need to carry AC adapters to charge various devices. These are a permanent installation and quite handy at a workplace where muultiple USB devices need to be charged.

RCA USB Wall Charger

Now, RCA has released a portable version of this combination device. This simple, portable model doesn’t require an electricion – you just plug it in. You can take it with you wherever you go. The downside is that it reduces the outlets from one to two and protrudes from the wall an inch or so.

Both of these options reduce the clutter of carrying multiple adapters – a simple, logical step forward.

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Kitchen & Bath Design Showroom San Francisco

Domicile’s newly remodeled 3,500 sq ft Design Showroom is your source for home remodeling designs and ideas. Located in the San Francisco Design Center in SOMA you’ll discover all you need under one roof to design and create any room in your home! Come visit us and let your imagination run wild!

As a dealer for many manufacturers and distributors, we offer you an almost limitless selection of styles, colors, shapes and features. Don’t worry, though — we’ll help you pick the best products for your custom home remodeling and interior design needs. We invite you to visit our 3500 square foot showroom at The San Francisco Design Center or contact us today to learn how Domicile Designs can improve the essential spaces of your home.

San Francisco Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Showroom

Our showroom is a complete design center and we are here to assist you in creating the kitchen and bath of your dreams. We have Kitchens, Counter-tops, Cabinets, Closets, Hutches, a Library Wall, Wood Fireplace, and Concealed Televisions on display. In addition, all of our cabinets, casework, built-ins and counter surfaces are custom made to order. We have a vast list of suppliers that we work with on a regular basis, which allows us to pass increased value along to our customers.

As if that wasn’t enough we have an impressive display of the latest styles and designs of Desks, Tables and Chairs, Built-in Appliances, Range Hoods and Ventilation.

Domicile’s San Francisco Design Center showroom is open to the public.

Sobel Design Building
680 Eighth Street, Suite 166
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-864-0800

Hours
Tuesday – Friday 9:00 5:00
Saturday 11:00-4:00
Closed Sunday and Monday

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Brentwood Kitchen & Bath Cabinetry

Bentwood is seriously focused on its responsibility to reduce our impact on the environment by providing the most ecologically sensitive product available while offering you the flexibility to design and create the kitchen you desire. As a business, we continue to find ways to reduce production waste, emissions and energy consumption. We also work with our suppliers to increase their level of accountability to achieve similar environmental goals.

Due to our product flexibility and wide selection of materials utilized we our currently offering “green” options that you value.

Existing Environmentally Positive Wood Options

• Any Domestic Wood Species (Alder, Cherry, Maple, etc.)
  All of our domestic sourced lumber and plywoods are supplied by FSC certified mills and distributors. US Forests are the best managed around the world.

• Bamboo (Golden or Blonde)

New Options

Cabinet Box Construction
Bentwood offers two new interior options that have a significantly reduced formaldehyde content that meets or exceeds the most stringent emissions standards.

•     Ultra Low Formaldehyde Wood Veneer Plywood Interior
•     Ultra Low Formaldehyde White Melamine Interior

Finish

It is important to note that we feel water-based finish options provide the most significant opportunity. Emissions are practically eliminated because the material is solvent free. However, it is important to make your client aware that although this finish technology is very promising, it is just starting to be used.

It meets KCMA (Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association) specs for durability but has not been used long enough to fully understand how it will hold up over time. Also, depending on the complexity of some of our finishes there may be times where we will have a difficult time achieving the look of our standard varnish finish.

We are continually learning and will expand or adjust this offering as new information and products become available.

For further information on kitchen and bath cabinetry products, please contact us.
We look forward to serving you!

We invite you to drop by our showroom
Sobel Design Building
680 Eighth Street, Suite 166
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-864-0800

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Kitchen & Bath Ideas by Domicile

Our solution to keep the plants, which was high on their list of priorities, was to install an open trough around the skylight. We lined it with copper and ran drip irrigation so the plants would need little attention on a daily basis.

The open skylights provided the sun and fresh air and we installed perimeter, dimmable fluorescent lighting behind the plants. The cool temperature of the fluorescent bulbs didn’t affect the plants yet was a wonderful light source in the evening when none of the other lights of the kitchen were needed.

Bath & Kitchen Design Ideas by Domicile

Designer Beth Laughlin worked with Domicile to create a very elegant Guest Bath that manages to put a smile on everyone’s face who sees it. A solid limestone counter top and limestone floor frame the quarter sawn oak vanity, white under mounted sink and polished nickel fittings. The highlight of the bath, however, is the marble “Effervescence Polished Mosaic” bubble walls of the shower. The clear glass, frameless shower stall disappears to expose the quiet riot of cut solid marble bubbles. The palette is so restrained that people take a double take on the pattern – a smile almost always ensues. It is truly a stunning installation.

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My Mentor Arny Waxman

I was in graduate school in Los Angeles in 1974 when I turned to a friend of mine and said “I don’t want to do this anymore.” He told me his father had a cabinet distribution company in the Bay Area, why didn’t I call his dad, ask if he had an opening and see if I could become a kitchen designer temporarily until I figured out what to do with my life. Well, he hired me and I guess I’m still trying to find that perfect career thirty seven years later.

I was thrilled. I had a job in a place I had only visited briefly once in my life. I roared up to Warehouse Kitchen Sales on San Leandro Blvd. in Oakland in my new Dodge Charger given to me by my parents when I graduated from college. Rick Waxman met me at the door and, right after hello, said “What is that?” referring to my vehicle – my introduction to Oakland via Berkeley esthetics. He playfully tormented me over the years until I got rid of that boat but that’s a story to be told another time. Anyway, when I walked into the showroom the reception was a tad chilly. I wouldn’t say it was resentment that the owner had dumped his kid’s clueless friend on them, let’s just say they were a bit wary. There was an office pen located between the showroom and the warehouse that housed four desks consisting of Ross Dahl, the manager, a guy named Tony, whose last name escapes me, Arny and me at the first actual professional desk in my life. Ross was very warm and introduced me to the operation of the business, some basics to get me started and gave me some homework to learn the trade. Tony would occasionally throw in a few suggestions however Arny was completely mute on a daily basis.

So, after a few weeks, Ross decided I was ready for my first lead. He gave me the name and phone number of a potential client. I was thrilled. I was actually going to meet my first client and measure my first kitchen. Ross said “do you have a map of Oakland?”  I responded that I didn’t. While facing the other direction out of Arny’s mouth came “Putz!”, my first introduction to what became an education in Yiddish, some of it usable in polite conversation. Tony  turned in his chair and gave me his CSAA map. He looked me directly in the eye and said “Listen rookie, get yourself a triple A membership and get some maps. This is my map. Don’t lose it, wrinkle it, don’t get it dirty and give it back to me tomorrow”. I thanked him then he promptly left for the day. I was very excited and opened the map, held it up like a newspaper and never noticed Arny sliding over in his chair with his lighter as he set the map on fire! I was mortified as he and Ross were practically falling out of their chairs laughing. I put out the fire, sat back, stared at the two of them and contemplated.

I guess I must have passed that litmus test because from that moment there was some seismic shift in the energy of the place. In retrospect I think I had to pass several tests before Mr. Waxman would decide I was worth his time. He told me much later, on some boring flight to some dull kitchen conference, that I was “oh, just bright enough, just enthusiastic enough but had a good sense of humor which was  the key element of getting successfully through life”. What a sage that man was and did I lap up every word. He took me under his wing and never looked back. I can’t even begin to itemize the myriad of skills he taught me, positive and negative, that have served me well through my career.  One of the truest things he said was “you can’t sell, people will see through it in a second. If you don’t believe in what you’re presenting then get out of the business because you’ll never succeed”. It didn’t matter if we were representing those basic, generic, modular kitchens in my first job or the very custom projects we deal with now, you have to be honest about what you’re presenting. As Arny clearly said “people can take it or leave it, just put it on the table and let them decide.”

I have succeeded well over the years thanks to his tutelage. However, in addition to learning the foundation for my career I also had an uproarious good time in Mr. Waxman’s company. I never met someone who could insult nearly everyone he met and have them like him even more. He really had a heart of gold and would help anyone whether they asked for assistance or not. I will miss those mischievous grins and the twinkling eyes when he had just succeeded in whatever prank he was pulling at that moment. I am a much fuller person in so many ways thanks to my friendship with Arny and his warm extended family. Everyone should be so lucky to have such a truly unique character in their life.

Ken Burghardt

Friends and family are invited to attend a Funeral Service on

Thursday, April 12, at 10:00 a.m. at Wilson & Kratzer Mortuary located at

455 24^th Street, Richmond, California 94804

510-232-4383

The family requests that all donations be sent to the American Diabetes Association.

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Custom Kitchen Design and Cabinetry San Francisco

Take the following sample kitchen to give you an idea of what we are talking about. This kitchen design includes the following:

Specifications

Raised panel cherry cabinets, Frameless construction, Full overlay doors , Standard stains without glazing, Plywood interiors, Solid maple dovetailed drawers and rollouts, Fully adjustable shelves , Full Extension “Soft close” drawers and doors & Solid wood raised panels on doors and drawers

Amenities

Corner base carousel, 12 rollout shelves, Vertical tray partitions, Pull-out double trash and recycle bins, Flatware drawer partitions, Cutlery insert, Spice insert, Mullioned Glass doors in wall cabinet, Dishwasher front panel, Tilt-out sink front, pull out towel bar, Crown Moulding & Light rail.

Pricing for this kitchen ranges from $23,400.00 – $49,650.00 plus sales tax including delivery. This price range includes our Columbia, Signature, Jay Rambo, Quaker Maid, Christiana, CraftMaid, Bentwood, Woodside and Cottonwood Cabinets.

The price is for cabinets only, not including countertops, appliances, plumbing fixtures, hardware or installation. All of these materials and services are available through Domicile, but not included in this sample pricing.

Kitchen Designs and Remodels San Francisco

There are endless variations on this design including layout, cabinet construction, interior options, finishes, mouldings etc.  It costs you nothing for Domicile to price cabinetry for any project of any size for any room. Why not set a time to come in for us to review your project? You will be very pleasantly surprised.

Drop by our showroom at The San Francisco Design Center or Contact Us today to learn how Domicile Designs can improve the essential spaces of your home.

Sobel Design Building
680 Eighth Street, Suite 166
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-864-0800

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Safety is one of the primary reasons people and home designers remove shower curbs. Grab bars and no curb design not only make a bath much safer, but also create spaciousness in the bathroom.

The next step in this open bathroom trend is the new “Invisible Shower Enclosure” by Duravit.

Home and Bath Remodeling Ideas Curb Less Shower

Home remodelers and designers have been trying to minimize the bulk of tubs and showers in bathrooms for years. It’s one thing to specify frameless glass, it’s another to get rid of the doors completely.

The doors in this enclosure fold back to the wall when not in use. Combine this mechanism with a curb less shower pan and you have an open walkway in a potentially tight bathroom. Marvelous!

Drop by our showroom at The San Francisco Design Center or Contact Us today to learn how Domicile Designs can improve the essential spaces of your home.

Sobel Design Building
680 Eighth Street, Suite 166
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-864-0800

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Notice the depth of the side panel that allows you to fold the door over the wall mounted shower controls and shower head.

Combine these ingenious doors with a flush shower floor and suddenly your cramped, small bathroom opens up into a light, inviting space.

Contact your local Duravit dealer for pricing and more information.

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