4 Ways with White-and-Wood Kitchens

Featured on Houzz: Using a palette that focuses on white and wood elements is a reliable approach to creating a stylish and inviting kitchen. White brightens a kitchen, which can help with tasks like chopping, and promotes a light and airy atmosphere that’s welcoming to family and guests. And wood brings in visual warmth and texture, furthering an enticing vibe. But getting the balance right between white and wood elements isn’t always straightforward…

12 Ways to Make Your Kitchen Look and Feel Bigger

A kitchen of any size can feel roomy if you know a few tricks. Sticking to white cabinets and walls is a good start, but there are many other ways to create extra room in your kitchen, or create the illusion of a bigger space than you have, all without sacrificing a sense of personality. Here are 12 of my favorite ways to balance storage, style and long sightlines to get a functional layout with a spacious vibe.

Lucy the Black Lab

When we arrived for a kitchen remodel, we immediately fell in love with this family’s precious black lab Lucy. We have a soft spot for this breed, since our own black lab Pepper is an integral part of the Northland family. Lucy joined her family after they picked her up from a breeder in California.…

West Linn Kitchen Remodel

West Linn Kitchen Remodel

Even with a quickly approaching holiday deadline, Northland goes above and beyond to deliver the best as was the case with this West Linn kitchen remodel! We couldn’t have done it without our clients utmost trust. After design had finished, we immediately jumped into gutting the kitchen, starting from scratch with a new floor plan.

Monty the Corgi in the snow

Monty the Corgi

Our favorite part of working with our clients is getting to know them and their families. For us, like some of our clients, dogs are a special part of our family. They enrich our lives, and love us unconditionally. We see the joy they bring to our clients, and we love working with them! To…

Kitchen Remodeling Sherwood Oregon

Kitchen Remodeling Sherwood Oregon

After Northland finished this family-of-four’s kitchen remodeling (and dining and entry hall) in Sherwood, the client’s had to convince their friends that they didn’t expand! This is why we call our designer Gina the space expert. Focusing on spacious aisle ways and efficient traffic flows, Gina was able to optimize the space by removing the…

Kitchen Remodel Sherwood

Transitional Kitchen Remodel Sherwood

Ever wonder what a transitional kitchen remodel means? You can’t browse Houzz pages without stumbling across transitional kitchens, bathrooms, and the like. But what is it exactly? Transitional designs are simply that–transitional! They combine fresh elements of the modern with the timelessness of the traditional. It’s a meet-in-the-middle kind of style, refraining from being too…