Bath & Kitchen Trends - Articles - Page 6

Natalie Forster: Impatient homeowners

As lead times increase, focus on offering alternate solutions for customers.

October 8, 2021

Over the past 18 months, I have been in the unique position to hear first-hand how the booming remodel market, supply chain disruptions and material costs are affecting plumbing distributors and showrooms while simultaneously being the end-user customer who’s remodeling her kitchen.

Decorative plumbing mirrors wellness trend

Showrooms and designers share what tub, fixture and finish trends are leading the market.

Tom Cohn

October 5, 2021

The heightened awareness and changing nature of the home was the dominant trend throughout the past year and a half, and the large percentage of consumers still working from home as we head into the end of 2021 — combined with health and wellbeing being top of mind — homeowners recognize that the primary bath can be a refuge from Zoom fatigue, a wellness center and a space where they can spend a few minutes for themselves, devoid of emails, texts, video calls, school assignments and family obligations.

Showers are no longer just for getting clean

Smart showers enhance growing luxury bathroom trend

Nicole Krawcke

September 23, 2021

How many people can relate to this scenario? Your alarm doesn’t go off and you wake up in a panic because you are now late for work.

Eemax portable handwashing stations

September 13, 2021

Eemax has prioritized the assembly of the portable handwashing units along with its suite of handwashing products due to the critical need for hand sanitation manifested by the COVID pandemic.

Jeff Valles: The missing marketing story

Amazon still cannot deliver a toilet.

Jeff Valles

September 10, 2021

As the dotcom recession slipped into our rear-view mirror, who was to know that Amazon would mature into the place to buy almost anything.

Plumbing gets smarter

Smart plumbing trend rises, connected products no longer just for luxury.

Natalie Forster

September 9, 2021

The willingness to splurge, along with society's cornerstone focus on wellness, shows that these smart plumbing products are becoming the norm, rather than luxury upgrades.

NKBA report projects industry-wide growth

August 27, 2021

The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) and John Burns Real Estate Consulting (JBREC) released its quarterly Kitchen & Bath Market Index (KBMI) for the second quarter of 2021. With estimates showing an 11% growth in sales for Q2 vs. Q1, the report suggests continued growth in the Kitchen and Bath market, despite ongoing material shortages and rising labor costs.

Jeff Valles: Are you ready for the Holidays?

It’s time to prepare for the busy season.

Jeff Valles

July 26, 2021

Ahh, the holidays. The time when families and friends gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year. What a special time...unless you are in the building industry. You are swamped with projects, struggling to get any product you can as your job timelines start to slip into 2022.

NKBA projects sales topping $170 billion

Revised 2021 outlook shows sales up more than 20%.

July 12, 2021

In its July update to the Kitchen & Bath Market Outlook, the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) revised its 2021 industry sales projection upward to $170.9 billion, up by a substantial 21.4% from 2020’s $140.8 billion in kitchen and bath spending and nearly 8% higher than the initial estimate for the year.