Greetings from the International Builder's Show
Greetings from the Orange County Convention Center in finger-splittingly bloodless Orlando Florida. Actually, I'm already on my manner home by the time you're reading this. These last three days were brilliant. The new stuff I noticed, the awesome human beings I met up with, it is been a real whirlwind.
Of all the great things I saw, there are a few that really stood out. The first is Brizo's new lavatory faucet called the Siderna . In addition to being really beautiful and sleek, there's a lot of sophisticated engineering hiding underneath it.
Check out this handle.
What's virtually wild approximately it is that those handles do not have the typical set screws that lock down a cope with. Instead of set screws, the cope with's held in place with virtually sturdy, rare-earth magnets.
It took the jaws of life to pry this cope with off. I in no way would have guessed that a magnet ought to hold a faucet cope with in region, let alone preserve it in area so tenaciously.
Thanks to Brizo's generosity, I actually have visible that Siderna before, but best as a prototype. The closing time I noticed it become approximately a 12 months in the past whilst it turned into a working model. It's an extraordinary and funky, cool thing to watch a product pass from an concept in an commercial designer's head to a real product that anyone should purchase.
From Merillat, I saw their new Pantry Corner, corner base cabinet . The cabinet industry has always been a very top-down industry when it comes to innovation. New, interesting products, start at the top of the market and work their way down. Merillat is a budget-friendly, value cabinet line. They're a well-built cabinet and they're sold at a price point that can't be beat. Typically, their notable innovations have come from things like that price point or the fact that they have a five-day production time. Five days for made-to-order cabinets. That's pretty innovative.
Well, this time, they may be grew to become the tables a bit and that they've provide you with a corner base cabinet that the high-quit, custom manufacturers could be following.
This is the Corner Pantry.
It's a nook cabinet with three, very deep drawers within the middle.
On every side of the drawers, there is a pull-out garage cupboard that's large sufficient to actually use.
Very smart and a miles extra green use of a kitchen corner than a lazy susan.
A week ago, I ran a couple of posts on a new series of laminates from Formica, the 180fx series . Prior to Wednesday, I'd only seen samples and a real highlight of the show was seeing 180fx laminates in person.
That they appearance so staggering on pix isn't a PhotoShop trick, Formica is within the throes of turning the laminate international around and in doing so they're reinvigorating and unfairly maligned product category. So bravo to the Formica Corporation.
I'll probably have another blog post or two about IBS 2011 and then it's off to Germany for IMM and a series of factory tours that have been arranged for me and five of my pals by Blanco sinks .