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CLIENT COMMENTS
“It has been a pleasure to work with you and your company.  My family loves the room and deck and all we get is OOOH’S and AAH’S when people first see the room.  More than one person has suggested we should be featured in Southern Living Magazine!”
Richard and Patty Felker

“Very happy – would not change anything.  I am thrilled with the job.” 
Mary Lou Chambers 

“A 10 – Couldn’t have been better.”
Earl Brill 

“I just sit here in my new kitchen with a grin on my face.  It’s so beautiful.  It’s everything I could have wanted.  And we absolutely love Steve.  He was great to work with.” 
Liz Kaplan
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The European Invasion

When I was building a home for myself back in the early 1980's, I wanted to find an antique-looking brass faucet for the kitchen sink.  I looked everywhere to find someone who made such a fixture.  No luck.  The American faucet manufacturers had Henry Ford's old concept of product.  Any color you want, so long as it's chrome.

If they thought it strange to have a request for brass, imagine what they'd have said if I requested, oh say . . . red?  "You want WHAT color?  Hey Joe! There's some nut case out here that wants a red faucet.  You got any spray paint?"

Then the Europeans began to shake things up a bit.  They began to import designer faucets and sinks to this country in order to fill a niche for their products.  The large American manufacturers hardly noticed.  Why should they care if these designer products captured .001% of the market.  They would still own the lions share.  After all, if they could produce a first rate chrome faucet for $125, why would anyone, except the wealthy, spend $600 or $800 just to get something that looked a little different.

Except that it didn't happen that way.  Homeowners were hungry for something different.  And, discriminating buyers were willing to pay for well engineered, beautifully crafted fixtures with loads of style.  So what if these things were expensive?  After spending thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars on a kitchen, a few hundred extra to get just the right look was worth the price.

Well, the Europeans had a field day and began to take more and more market share from the Americans.  One company after another began to see the US market as fertile ground for developing new profits.  And, lo and behold, the local manufacturers woke up one day and began producing their own Euro looks.

All this has been great for the consumer.  The wealth of product that is available today, in everything from faucets to appliances and cabinets, is truly astounding.  If you can think of it, it's probably made.  Plus, the miracle called "quantity of scale" and competition have come into play and caused prices to drop.  Today, a modest increase in budget can open the door to many more interesting and appealing products for the kitchen or bath.

And by the way, if you go into most plumbing showrooms today, the only problem you'll have with red faucets is deciding on which one to buy.  Of course, once you see the black ones, or those that use both chrome and color together, or polished brass trims . . . you get the idea.  Have it your way.