Right now, it is hard to know what day-to-day life is going to look like. Some of us might be on the front lines, some of us might be worrying where money is going to be coming from, and some of us might simply be staying at home.   Especially for those of us staying at home, it is easy to notice when your kitchen or bathroom is not up to par or ma...

When you are thinking about getting your kitchen remodeled, you are probably thinking about all of the other kitchens that you have been in or seen online or on one of those remodeling or fix-it-up TV shows.  Whether they have been recently remodeled or not, when you are thinking about those kitchens there is a likely theme that comes to mind: most...

When you are remodeling your kitchen, you have a ton of questions. How long is it going to take?  Where do I begin? What can I expect? As important as all of those questions are, one of the most important things to identify before the timelines and when you begin is what type of kitchen design style you want for your new kitchen. Picking a kitchen ...

When you are planning to renovate your kitchen, you probably feel like you are being bombarded with choices. What color, wood and cabinet doorstyle are you going to select? What type of material will your countertops be? And when should you choose to start your renovation? There’s all that and more. Some questions and choices you expect. But then c...

Your kitchen is the center of your home. And what is essential to making your kitchen flow? Organization. Storage space. Efficiency.  When you are doing all your cooking, from prep to table, you want it to be convenient and simple. The only way you’re going to be able to do that is if you have great kitchen storage.

When you are looking to update your bathroom but you have a budget in mind, it can become more difficult to pick out what aspects you would like to get remodeled. As a result, it typically begs the question none of us really ever want to answer even though we know we must: where should I save, and where should I splurge? 

Wanting is a solid reason, but what are the other reasons you might remodel your bathroom? We are sure you have got other reasons. See how they match up with these other common reasons to remodel your bathroom.

In the U.S., a 2018 study showed that 58% of people indicated that they planned to spend money to renovate their homes. That’s more than half of all homeowners that are planning to renovate at least one room in their home. 

The kitchen is the heart of the home, where families gather and memories are made. To optimize this space, a well-designed layout is crucial. In this blog, we'll cover five common kitchen layout mistakes—limited movement space, poor workflow, inadequate lighting, awkward cabinet placement, and incorrect appliance measurements—and offer practical ti...

When it comes to bathroom remodeling, careful planning and budgeting are essential for any type of bathroom.  The actual costs of your bathroom remodel may exceed your initial expectations. However, don't worry! We're here to provide you with valuable advice and education to guide you through the process and ensure a successful bathroom remodeling ...

Phase 1: Information Gathering, Design & Pricing Gathering information for your kitchen remodeling project While you are excited at this stage, it is essential for you to take your time and get it right. The choices you make here will start to create the foundation of your kitchen remodeling project, so it is critical that you take your time and co...

The First Meeting This project started out as a simple request from the clients. The family contacted Reico Kitchen & Bath for a quote to swap out the cabinets based on their existing layout. They had previously hired an interior designer to spruce up their kitchen, but weren't entirely satisfied with the outcome. However, after learning more about...

Phase 2: Ordering, Scheduling & Permits We’ve ordered your bathroom products. Now hurry up…and wait. Congratulations! You’ve made all your decisions, finalized the design and signed off on your order. All the excitement that has built up to this point now…has…to…wait. Product lead times for all the products you’ve chosen can range depending on the ...

The 3 phases to a bathroom remodeling project We know how it is. You’re rearing to go with your redesign. The idea of that beautiful new bathroom awaiting you is so exciting that you want it right now. So we make the steps clear and simple for you to get there. For mostly every bathroom remodel, you’re going to work with three phases: Information G...

Financing your Bathroom Remodel Whether you are remodeling your primary bathroom, hall bathroom or almost any bathroom in the house Reico Kitchen & Bath can assist you with two options for financing your bathroom project.  For loan amounts from $1,000 to $55,000, Reico's partnership with EnerBank USA, gives you the following options: 6-month Same-A...

Measuring your kitchen or bathroom doesn’t have to be difficult. While we can gladly assist, all you really need is a tape measure, pencil and a piece of paper or the a floor plan grid. Like you can find in our Kitchen and Bathroom Planning Guides. There are even some apps today that will let you take a picture of the room and start to figuring out...

Contemporary Kitchens and Bathrooms A contemporary design for your kitchen or bathroom represents the look of today and the cutting edge in kitchen and bathroom design. The style is purposely non-traditional and is often very popular in smaller kitchen and bathroom spaces, where high gloss finishes on kitchen and bathroom cabinets reflect light and...

We understand your time is the most important thing At Reico Kitchen & Bath we do everything we can to respect that, which is why we offer the Reico Delivery Advantage. Our delivery system will change the way you plan your day, and hopefully allow you to work on the date your kitchen or bathroom is scheduled to deliver from Reico. The Reico Kitchen...

White Kitchens and Bathrooms (kind of popular too) White is a great place to start when designing kitchen and bathrooms. With its' crisp, clean look, white offers kitchen and bathrooms comfort and simplicity. It can range from traditional to contemporary in style, and provide a background against which other colors and pieces in the kitchen or bath...

Modern Kitchens and Bathrooms With minimal material use and limited decorations, modern kitchens and bathrooms offer design styles featuring clean, streamlined looks. You will not find fancy moldings or ornate details in these kitchens or bathrooms. Modern kitchens and bathrooms often use darker woods or finishes on cabinets. Countertops that are w...

Tips for how to measure your kitchen We created a easy tutorial to help you measure your kitchen. “How to measure your Kitchen” will walk you step by step through the process of measuring your kitchen that will help you get started in the kitchen remodeling process. It’s only 83 seconds long too so how hard could it be? Yes we can come out and meas...

Tips for measuring your Bathroom Our Measuring your Bathroom for a Remodeling Project video is a great resource to help you understand exactly what you need to do to measure your bathroom. Yes, we will eventually come out and measure when the time is right but this is a great way to help you get things started. Measuring your Bathroom for a Remodel...

 

Design Ideas to make your kitchen design or bathroom design even better Creating your dream kitchen or bathroom is truly a collaborative effort!  Gathering your own ideas, finding inspiration and weaving in the appropriate expertise goes a long way to a kitchen remodeling or bathroom remodeling experience that helps you achieve that dream.  But tha...

Part Method, Part Madness. Eclectic Kitchens and Bathrooms. Playful, personal and pretty diverse. The Eclectic kitchens and bathrooms borrow entirely from other design styles, combining imagination with surprise to create well thought out elements of design, color and contrasts to make your kitchen or bathroom look cohesive. Designing eclectic is n...

Rustic Kitchens and Bathrooms Forget what you may be thinking about the rustic style…gone are the days of ceramic chickens and roosters. Today’s rustic kitchens and bathrooms offer warm, rich earth tones and the distinctly regional American flair of the mountains and other wilderness areas of the country. Typically found in the kitchens and bathroo...

Arts & Crafts Kitchens and Bathrooms The Arts & Crafts style, which can be referred to as the Craftsman style as well, emphasizes simplicity, a natural look and traditional craftsmanship in kitchens and bathrooms. Rich woods featuring thick cabinet frames, recessed panel doors and wall cabinets that reach to the ceiling can be found in arts & craft...

The warm comfort of Cottage Kitchens and Bathrooms Cottage Kitchens and Bathrooms create a lighter, brighter and open feeling to your kitchen or bathroom space. In a cottage-inspired design style, you'll find elements of comfort, relaxation and simplicity. From distressed surfaces to driftwood-like finishes, paint colors in various shades of pale a...

The Asian influence on Kitchens and Bathrooms Serenity. Calmness. Balance. The Asian influence on kitchens and bathrooms balances sleek, minimalist design that avoids excess and emphasizes the natural. Bamboos and natural stones calmly interact with warm neutrals and crisp whites, gently melding serenity with the exotic. It is this strong emphasis ...

A simple way to make your Pantry more efficient and accessible Pantry storage is always an important consideration in any kitchen design. You need a place to store those taller items and things you do need every time. Base pantry tall cabinet provides easy to access pull out pantry storage for storing items of all shapes and sizes that you can acce...

The Tilt Out Sink Tray - now you see it, now you don't A sink base offers great opportunities for storage and design solution. Tilt out sink trays offer extra storage that keeps sponges and scrubbers handy and off of your countertop. Door caddies attach inside the door of the cabinet to keep frequently used cleaning supplies organized and within ea...

Clear countertop space with this kitchen cabinet accessory When countertop space is at a premium in a small kitchen or you just want less clutter on your tops, considering getting your microwave off the countertop by using a base cabinet with microwave opening. Some cabinets come up slightly higher than the countertop height, giving you a more comf...

Another option for those baking pans - the Flat Storage Roll Out Tray Cabinet Flat storage roll out tray cabinets offer efficient, easy-to-access storage for shallow or fabric-made items such as placemats, cutting boards and kitchen towels, as well as bake ware sheets and decorative trays, all tucked away cleanly behind two cabinet doors. Kitchen C...

4 timeless kitchen design ideas to add that touch to your kitchen Designing a new kitchen is overwhelming. Besides it being maybe the only time you might do this in your lifetime (the average for most people is 1-2), the choices to go along with it are overwhelming. Design styles today are more far reaching than ever, from modern and contemporary t...

3 big design ideas for your small kitchen A small kitchen design is limited only by space and not by ideas. Your small, cramped kitchen may limit some options but it will inspire the creativity of your kitchen designer to create a small kitchen design that gives you as much to work with as possible. So what can make the greatest impact on a small k...

Deep Drawers and Roll Out Trays? Yes, we can do that. The Two Drawer Deep Drawer Cabinet w/ Built-in Roll Out Trays offers convenient and flexible drawer storage. Each deep drawer has a smaller roll out tray that can be opened and closed independently of the drawer, offering extra storage and better organization in each drawer. Kitchen Cabinet Idea...

A kitchen cabinet accessory must - the trash and recycling cabinet A base top mount wastebasket features hidden bag storage and a two-bin design to keep trash and recyclables separated and out of sight. Place by a sink, refrigerator or kitchen island for convenient access to your food prep area. A top drawer in the cabinet offers a little more stor...

Go vertical with a Cooking Utensil Storage Drawer. Always looking for the spatula, only realize it is in the drawer across from where you are cooking.  Or worse, it's on the countertop jammed together with all your other cooking utensils.  Add a Vertical Cooking Utensil Storage Drawer to conveniently locate them near your cooking areas but out of s...

Do not let anything hide in the corner. Don't dread that corner base cabinet!  Consider a Corner Cabinet with Independent Shelves and Lighting. Bring everything in that corner cabinet right to you, and with lighting from inside the cabinet you can see exactly what you are looking at.  Now's that's task lighting!  Kitchen Cabinet Accessories Corner ...

Double Up (not down) with your silverware drawer. Space is always at a premium, no matter how big your kitchen is.  A simple way to maximize more of your drawer space is to add a Double Tier Silverware Drawer.  You create more space in one place for all your daily cutlery.  Kitchen Cabinet Accessories Double Tier Silverware Drawer

Keep it out of sight and charging through the night The beauty of a charging drawer is it offers tremendous convenience without cluttering your countertops with a variety of electronic devices.  With proper planning for electrical, you can not only use the charging drawer to power your devices, but put them away for the night too.  Kitchen Cabinet ...

A properly lit kitchen has become a critical element in kitchen remodeling. Like good icing on a cake, good lighting draws us in and helps us engage with the space (while we eat the cake of course!). And with the variety of lighting available today, deciding on lighting is just as important as choosing your kitchen cabinets, countertops and applian...

The beginning of the year is a time to reflect on the past months and see how far you come, and see where you want to go. If you’re planning on setting goals, it’s hard to think when you’re feeling cluttered and stressed.  The state of our homes affects us more than we might think. A messy house means a messy mind. And where do we spend a lot of ti...

Education plays a key role throughout our entire lives. It begins in early childhood and if we embrace it, it stays with us our entire lives. College affords the opportunity to develop a real focus around what we hope to do, want to do and sometimes are even a little afraid to do. We believe the training pipeline starts early, so we have worked to ...

Forget the selection shows and the wondering about seeds, who is in and who is out. Kitchen and bathroom remodeling clients now have a new source for the complete line of Kohler line of products. March Madness will come and go, just like it does each year. But the madness of finding the right products for your kitchen and bathroom projects just got...

Kids. We love ‘em! But leave them unchecked and things can quickly escalate. Adding a kitchen island can help! When starting the thought process for kitchen remodeling and a new kitchen design, a kitchen island might just be the difference between a happy life and constant strife. Not sure what we mean? Here are 3 simple ways a kitchen island “work...

Reico Kitchen & Bath, the premier distributor of kitchens and bathrooms in the mid-Atlantic region, is pleased to announce the opening of a new showroom to serve the largest city in North Carolina, Charlotte, and its’ roughly 200 surrounding neighborhoods, and suburban markets. The new Reico Kitchen & Bath showroom in Charlotte is their 22nd showro...

St. Patrick’s Day is just about a week away. And while we welcome the green of spring slowing seeping into March in advance of this Irish celebration, what we don’t want to see is the green of envy in our clients wishing they had known more about what popular in kitchen trends as they prepare for a kitchen remodeling project. So before anyone taps ...

Traditional Valentine’s Day gifts are so passé these days. Chocolate? Delicious of course but that moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips. And who needs that? Flowers? Beautiful but they don’t last forever…and when they start to wilt and have to be thrown out. Awkward! Jewelry? Okay, admittedly that’s a little tougher to compete with. But unl...

Selecting Kitchen Appliances Selecting kitchen appliances is a critical driver to the kitchen design process. Finding and selecting your kitchen appliances first in the process helps identify space, gas/electrical locations and design requirements to create the right kitchen design for your space. Appliances are often considered the “jewelry” of th...

Reico Kitchen & Bath offers a convenient, easy-to-use financing option to assist retail customers with the purchase of their new kitchen or bathroom. This 180-day (6 months), same-as-cash financing option, from EnerBank US A, works as follows: Minimum loan amount is $4,000 and maximum is $45,000  Prospective borrowers must own and occupy the home t...

We understand your time is the most important thing and at Reico Kitchen & Bath we do everything we can to respect that, which is why we offer the Reico Delivery Advantage. Our delivery system will change the way you plan your day, and hopefully allow you to work on the date your kitchen or bathroom is scheduled to deliver from Reico. Do I have to ...

 

Your Guide to selecting Countertops for the Kitchen or Bathroom The countertop works hard. From food prep to casual dining to homework in the kitchen to the toiletry and make up covered bathroom vanity top, the countertop is the most highly used surface in the entire household, often times in the center of it all. So choosing the right material is ...

Kitchen and Bathroom Cabinet Basics - what you need to know Along with your appliance choices, selecting cabinets early on will help you make other decisions regarding your new kitchen or bathroom design.  Learn more about Reico's cabinet brands here, or visit our Reico Express page for in stock cabinets and other products you need quickly.   Maybe...

Find Affordable Luxury in Cabinets and Appliances with Reico's Promotions and Sales Reico Kitchen & Bath offers you many ways to make luxury affordable and help you save on your kitchen remodeling or bathroom remodeling project.  Whether it is kitchen cabinets or bathroom vanity cabinets, or a dishwasher, refrigerator or other new home or kitchen a...

Starting your Bathroom remodel? We can help. Today there are more choices than ever for creating your own dream bathroom. At Reico, we can help you remodel any bathroom in your home - from the small, simply laid out hall bathroom to a master bathroom that you secretly desire to transform into your own personal spa where you can rest, relax and reju...

Tips to Getting Started on your Kitchen Remodeling Project Kitchen Cabinets aren't just offered in oak anymore…. Yesterday's medium and dark oak kitchen cabinets are being replaced by kitchen cabinets available in both very traditional woods (think maple or cherry kitchen cabinets) to more exotic woods such as alder and bamboo. And it does not stop...

Reico Kitchen & Bath Military and First Responder Discount Program   Reico appreciates the hard work and efforts of our American troops and offers a special cabinet discount to current and past service members from the following branches of the military: Air Force Army Coast Guard Marines National Guard Navy Additionally, Reico is appreciative of t...

Save with appliance manufacturer rebates on select kitchen appliances and home appliances Let Reico Kitchen & Bath help you find more ways to save on your kitchen remodeling or other home project. Check out these current appliances promotions from Miele.  Miele 2026 "The More You Buy, The More You Save" Kitchen Package Program Save 10% when you pur...