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Designing for How You Imagine Your Home Will Feel

Transforming your home starts when you imagine how different your home would feel.
You will discover and clarify what that means with the Designed by L.I.F.E.^TM process.
   Solutions are more personal and authentic--more than than a designer's signature look--
surpassing standard sizing (especially 24"-deep base and 12"-deep wall cabinets).
(Landon's training as a woodworker frees him to design to his client's preferences.)
Homes on this website have distinct personalities; they reflect the client.
To that end, Landon shaped the spaces, specified the finishes,
detailed and provided the cabinets, and drew the lighting plans.
Stories varied widely, as did budgets. See this example where materials were either
   $17,000 or $71,000... for the same plan! (Landon's career story began by helping a young widow.)
Some clients remodeled their homes; others fine-tuned or "remodeled " a new home's blueprints.
   Some used contractors; others did much of the work themselves.
Starting and staying in the Designed by L.I.F.E.^TM process of Richard Landon, CMKBD*,
is your first step towards creating a project that will justify your investment,
   one that "looks great, works well and, most important, feels right"--to you!

* Certified Master Kitchen & Bath Designer. For more on his credentials, click here or call (425) 957-0451.

Featured Project!

Savoring Suite Soaks

YouTube video of interview on site at the

2013 Seattle Home Show

`TOTAL HOME REMODEL "RIDGE ROOM SHIFTS"``PLAIN-SLICE AFRICAN RIBBON MAHOGANY CABINETS`		STORAGE SOLUTIONS!	`A TRADITIONAL KITCHEN FOR TWO AVID COOKS``INSET FLUSH PAINTED CABINETS PLUS MARBLE, WALNUT, ONYX, AND MAPLE COUNTERS`
`ACROSS THE WOOD SPE``CTRUM:` `ALDER,` `BIRCH,` `C``HERRY, CHESTNUT,` `FIR, IPE, MAHOGANY, MAKORE,` `OAK, WALNUT,` `ZEBRAWOOD...`
1 ~ Four-Wood Kitchen Even has a panini-maker garage! `KNOTTY CHERRY CABINETS WALNUT BAR & FIR TRIM CARLISLE CHESTNUT FLOORS`	2 ~ Scullery Kitchen The Home's Living Center `ESPRESSO-GLAZED ALDER CABINETS & IPE FLOORS`	3 ~ Zebrawood & Lavastone Tour home & published Kitchen Trends, Vol. 24, No. 3 `WHITE-PAINTED & ZEBRAWOOD CABINETS`	4 ~ Ramble No More Tour home & published `RED BIRCH CABINETS & RED OAK FLOORS`	5 ~ Curves and Angles Meet Published NKBA President's Award! `AFRICAN RIBBON MAHOGANY`
6 ~ Makore & Lacanche! Award-winning `BLOCKED, QUARTERED, MOTTLED MAKORE`	*On to read about Landon's* *"Designed by L.I.F.E." Process*	7 ~ Potting Bench Kitchen Published Kitchen Trends, Vol. 25, No. 5 `CLEAR VERTICAL-GRAIN FIR`	*Contact Richard @* *(425) 957-0451*	8 ~ Evergreen Point Tudor Tour home Sub-Zero as Armoire `WALNUT, CHERRY & PAINTED`
`KITCHENS TO INSPIRE`
9 ~ Floating On Air! Tour home & award-winning National Best Overall Kitchen `AFRICAN RIBBON MAHOGANY & CARAMELIZED BAMBOO`	10 ~ Spinning Plate Kitchen Award-winning Master Builder's REX Award `HAND-PICKED SAPELE VENEERS`	11 ~ Taller, Deeper, Wider Tour home & award-winning 32'-long library ladder! `ESPRESSO-GLAZED ALDER`	12 ~ Island on a Island! Tour home & award-winning NKBA President's Award `HONDURAS MAHOGANY`	13 ~ Condo Aglow & Askew Award-winning Illuminated art-glass café table! `ESPRESSO-GLAZED ALDER`
14 ~ An Art Gallery Kitchen Tour home & published Kitchen Trends, Vol. 26, No. 7 `AFRICAN RIBBON MAHOGANY & CARAMELIZED BAMBOO`	15 ~ French Elegance Award-winning & published Honored as an NKBA best kitchen! `HAND-PAINTED WITH HIGHLIGHTS`	16 ~ Mid-Century Asian Tour home & published Kitchen Trends, Vol. 26, No. 5 `CHERRY WITH PERFORATED STEEL & HAND-CAST GLASS IN DOORS`	17 ~ Up On Legs Published Function with Feeling `WHITE-PAINTED CABINETS`	18 ~ Shifting Pathways SxS ovens + unique pantry Concealed pull-out hood `CHERRY CABINETS`
19 ~ Windows Above! New home Holmes Point Contemporary `ALDER WITH BAMBOO FLOORS`	20 ~ Evergreen Point Tudor Tour home Sub-Zero as Armoire `WALNUT, CHERRY & PAINTED`	21 ~ Raised Oceans Apart Hawaii vs. Rhode Island `CHERRY & PAINTED CABINETS WITH WALNUT ISLAND COUNTER`	22 ~ A Tunnel Kitchen "You Can't Help Me" `WHITE-PAINTED`	23 ~ Bring in the Light! Tour Kitchen `ESPRESSO-GLAZED ALDER + WALNET & MAPLE COUNTERS`
`5 SEATTLE BUNGALOW KITCHEN REMODELS`
24 ~ Greenwood Published Walking Up Drawers `MAPLE`	25 ~ Near the Montlake Cut Published A Bungalow Opens Up `WHITE-PAINTED CABINETS & CHERRY`	26 ~ Top of Queen Anne Still a beauty years later Another Bungalow Opens Up `ALDER WITH ANIGRE`	27 ~ West Seattle Glossy zebrawood Glossy Zebrawood `ZEBRAWOOD & GLASS`	28 ~ In the Bryant neighorhood Featurning a Lacanche range A Touch of Tuscan `MAHOGANY CABINETS & NINE-PIECE DOORS`
`MORE THAN A DECADE LATER...STILL LOOKING GOOD!`
29 ~ Artist's Boomerang! Sammamish Plateau `HIGH-GLOSS RIBBED LAMINATE`	30 ~ Kitchen with Ripples Remodeling a Ralph Anderson home `ANILINE-DYED, VERTICAL-GRAIN FIR`	31 ~ Split-Level Solution Published `CHERRY`	32 ~ Clyde Hill Craftsman Published `CHERRY`	33 ~ Ravenna Painted Lady How to Keep 1940's Cabinets & Also Update
Whole Home Remodels	New Home Fine-Tuning	On to the "Reading Tour"	*On to read about Landon's* *"Designed by L.I.F.E." Process*	*To the "Back Porch"* *for nine more kitchens*.
`BATHS AND OTHER ROOMS`
1 ~ Hers vs. His in Harmony Published `VERTICAL-GRAIN 5/4 FIR WITH SOLID DOOR PANELS`	2 ~ Splish-Splash Boys' Bath REX award `WHITE-PAINTED` `& CHERRY CABINETS`	3 - Bathing in the Round REX Award `CHERRY`	4 ~ Elegant Master Bath Tour home & award-winning `WHITE-PAINTED CABINETS & MARBLE WALLS`	5 ~ Too Big/Too Small Published `WHITE-PAINTED & CHERRY``CABINETS`
6 ~ "Snow"-Dappled Powder Award-winning `ESPRESSO-GLAZED ALDER`	7 ~ Walnut with Brass "Sunlight" Award-winning 2012 `WALNUT`	8 ~ 10"-Deep Powder Vanity Tour home `MAHOGANY & BAMBOO`	9 ~ Very Small Powder Award-winning `BAMBOO`	10 ~ Cylindrical Vanities Published `CLEAR VERTICAL-GRAIN FIR`
11 ~ Craft Room & Office Published `WHITE-PAINTED CABINETS`	12 ~Marble and Travertine Tour home & published `RIFT-CUT WHITE OAK`	13 ~ Basement Hangout Published `CHERRY`	14 ~ My Bags Are Packed Tour home `ANTIQUE CHEST`	15 ~ Dressed Up Hall Bath Contest winner `PAINTED`
*Contact Richard @* *(425) 957-0451*	*On to the* *"Reading Tour"*	*"What Not To Do" Pictures* *as seen on a home tour*	*On to read about Landon's* *"Designed by L.I.F.E." Process*	.