June 2010 Newsletter from Professional Building Services by PMC

Why Invest in a kitchen/bath design?

When Professional Building Services begins the design process, we evaluate your existing space and figure out all possible functional plans; sometimes there are as many as three or four plans within that same space. During the designing stage, we also incorporate and consider your family's needs, likes, dislikes, lifestyle, and habits. After creating these different designs, we set up a meeting with you in order to review the designs. At this stage, we can also take ideas from each plan and arrive at a final floor plan.

After arriving at a final floor plan, we are then able to do a prospective rendering of your project, as well as a specification sheet detailing all the material. This process allows customers to view what the new design will look like before any work is done, or materials are ordered. Once the customer has approved the design, Professional Building Services will develop further details by showing all cabinet specifications (such as drawers or doors), pull out shelves, a "Lazy Susan," etc. We follow these steps so the customer knows and sees exactly what they are getting. Professional Building Services desires to achieve ultimate customer satisfaction and never wants a client to be unhappy or settle with our work.

Appliances:

The more manufactures that become aware of the Universal Design concept, the more appliance options become available. This allows universally designed appliances to be incorporated into your space without sacrificing aesthetics. Consider the following when purchasing appliances for a universal designed kitchen: 1) purchasing a separate cook top and oven can accommodate height differences, 2) Appliance controls placed in front make it easy to read numbers, 3) Touch pad controls, instead of knobs are easier to see and use and, 4) Microwave placement should be in reach and sight of people who use it. By including theses items and considering careful placement in design, your space will be usable by everyone, regardless of their abilities or stage of life.

Bathing Luxuries:

Bathroom luxuries are becoming more advanced and beneficial with today's active lifestyle. After a long day of work and responsibilities, people are regularly relying on relaxing in a serene and beautiful bathroom, in which they can completely indulge themselves with luxury. Several innovative products are continually introduced and designed in order to enhance the luxury of bathing experience. Multiplehead "super showers" can include such amenities as adjustable overhead showerheads, ultra-low-flow body sprays, vertical jets for body massages, and personal hand-held showerheads. Super showers can be equipped for steam as well, and may even provide an aroma therapy attachment.

Elaborate whirlpool baths have become the norm, some even offering a built in television/VCR monitor. The whirlpool action, as well as the underwater lighting and temperature can be easily operated through digital control panels. Certain whirlpools are designed to provide the sensory pleasure of a rolling river with cascading waterfall flowing over the shoulders as one reclines the head against a built-in bath pillow. Thermos-massage air jet bathtubs are another hot product. These systems use a multitude of air jets (34-70) located all around the tub wall to create a therapeutic turbulence in the water. Since no water is being circulated through a pump, these systems allow bathers to use products, such as essential oils, to optimize relaxation. The bathing experience does not stop with the bath, however. Bathers can step out of the bath and have immediately at hand a cozy, pre-warmed towel with which to dry off. Available in a variety of finishes and designs--even custom designs--towel warmers add style as well as comfort to a bathroom.