NKBA: Certification For Kitchen & Bath Industry
National Kitchen & Bath Association provides certification programs as a way for kitchen and bath professionals to enhance their careers and market themselves as experts in the specific competencies related to their business.
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NKBA: New Non-Design Certification
National Kitchen & Bath Association has launched a non-design certification: the Certified Kitchen & Bath Professional (CKBP). This universal certification was created in response to repeated requests for a certification path that would support builder/remodelers, distributors, fabricators, manufacturers' representatives, and other qualified professionals in the industry.
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NKBA: Kitchen & Bath Career Center
National Kitchen & Bath Association online Career Center is an electronic recruitment resource for the industry. Here, employers and recruiters can access a qualified talent pool with relevant work experience to fulfill staffing needs.
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NKBA: National Kitchen & Bath Association
National Kitchen & Bath Association is the international trade association representing the kitchen and bath industries. They enhance member success and excellence, promote professionalism and ethical business practices, and provide leadership and direction for the kitchen and bath industry worldwide.
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NKBA: Resource Site For Kitchen & Bath Design
National Kitchen & Bath Association offers information and resources on kitchen and bath design ideas, expert remodeling tips, advice, choosing a designer, picking out colors, and more.
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CMHC: Accessible Bathrooms By Design
CMHC factsheet outlines design considerations and elements of a universally designed bathroom, from manoeuvring space and ease of cleaning to grab bars and walk-in bathtubs and showers.
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CMHC: Green Renovations To Bathrooms
CMHC describes how green bathroom renovations present many opportunities to add green features to improve environmental performance and to deal with common bathroom problems.
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Fine Homebuilding: Preventing Moisture Problems In Bathrooms
Fine Homebuilding article describes strategies for controlling moisture in a bathroom, including both airborne water vapor and splashes from tubs, showers, toilets, and sinks. It includes construction details and recommendations for materials and designs that will help keep water in its place.
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GBA: Green Remodeling For Bathroom
Green Building Advisor describes considerations for a green bathroom remodel including water, moisture, ventilation, and durable green materials.
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CMHC: Before You Start Renovating Your Bathroom
CMHC checklist for planning to renovate a bathroom looks at potential problems in six key areas: size and design; fixtures; structural areas; moisture problems; plumbing and electrical systems; and heating and ventilation. It includes what to look for, possible remedies and what could happen if problems are not repaired. (PDF)
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For Residential Pros: Designing Master Bathroom Traffic Flow
For Residential Pros says when designing master bathroom traffic flow, recognize a few basic human preferences and personal-hygiene factors and a solution that accommodates owners’ preferences and the structure’s limitations can be achieved.
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For Residential Pros: Guides To Designing Better Kitchens & Baths
For Residential Pros article is a Designing Better Kitchens & Baths guide from the NKBA Professional Resource Library covering designing the grooming center, bathing/showering center tips, planning a sink station, refrigeration center layout, and maximizing cooking efficiency.
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Moen: Kitchen & Bathroom Planning Guide
Moen online Kitchen and Bathroom Planning Guide: walks the customer through each phase of a kitchen or bath remodel; helps customers clarify their design style and identify products that will enhance that style; includes a design questionnaire that's similar to the programming interview an architect or designer typically conducts with a customer, and helps the customer to prepare for the interview or create their own design; features sections on working with a contractor, making a budget, and choosing faucets, sinks and accessories; offers helpful hints on how to smooth out those inevitable emotional ups and downs that are part of a remodeling project. (PDF)
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NAHB: Today's Bathroom Trends
US National Association of Home Builders says clean, uncluttered lines, energy- and water-efficient features, the open and accessible aesthetics of universal design, materials and colors drawn from nature, and a spa-like feel of comfort and relaxation inspire today's bathroom trends.
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NKBA: 2011 Design Trends For Kitchen & Bath
National Kitchen & Bath Association survey revealed key design trends for 2011. The results of this survey suggest there will be some changes in the direction that kitchen and bath styles will take this year.
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NKBA: 2013 Kitchen & Bath Style Report
National Kitchen and Bath Association 2013 Kitchen & Bath Style Report says member-designers throughout North America identify gray color schemes, quartz surfaces and the move to transitional styles as the major trendsetters. (PDF)
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NKBA: 2013 Top 10 Design Trends For Kitchen & Bath
National Kitchen & Bath Association has released the top 10 kitchen and bath design trends to watch for in 2013. The NKBA's annual design trends survey witnessed participation from over 300 member-designers from the United States and Canada, who reported the materials, product types, and design styles they specified over the final three months of 2012.
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NKBA: Top Kitchen & Bath Trends For 2012
National Kitchen & Bath Association member designers took part in the 2012 NKBA Design Trends Survey to cite the materials, product types, and styles that they’ve incorporated into their kitchen and bath designs over the final three months of 2011.
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Taunton: Purchasable Book On New Bathroom Ideas
Taunton sells The New Bathroom Idea Book. This richly illustrated book is packed with practical tips and ingenious ideas for choosing fixtures, floor and countertop materials, lighting, and ventilation, even accessibility planning. From tiles to tubs, storage to steam baths, fans to faucets, every bathroom detail comes to life. $20 USD
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KBIS: Best Products Of Annual Kitchen & Bath Industry Show
The annual Kitchen & Bath Industry Show presents their winners of the Best of KBIS competition. The eight winning products, selected for their functionality, quality/durability, flexibility, aesthetics/style and innovation, were each introduced in the past 12 months.
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NKBA: Kitchen & Bath Industry Directory
National Kitchen & Bath Association offers a kitchen & bath industry directory where you can conduct targeted searches for products and services by company name, location, service and product categories, or relevant words.
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Remodeling Magazine: Online Slides Of New Kitchen & Bath Products
Remodeling Magazine slide show describes, from affordable to upscale, new products from Cambria, Canyon Creek Cabinetry, Danze, Elkay, Everpure, Hansgrohe, Gaggenau, Guardian, Kaldewei, and KWC.
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