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Designing for How You Imagine Your Home Will Feel 
 2013 Seattle Home Show 

 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
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 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.


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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 SPECTRUM:
ALDER, BIRCH, CHERRY, CHESTNUT, FIR, IPE, MAHOGANY, MAKORE, OAK, WALNUT, ZEBRAWOOD...
1 ~ Four-Wood Kitchen
Even has a panini-maker garage!
Four Wood Kitchen
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
Lavastone & zebrawood
Kitchen Trends
, Vol. 24, No. 3
WHITE-PAINTED & ZEBRAWOOD CABINETS
4 ~ Ramble No More
Tour home & published
Hand-cast glass and flamed copper on the eating bar.
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, mottled makore
BLOCKED, QUARTERED,
MOTTLED MAKORE

On to read about Landon's 
"Designed by L.I.F.E." Process
7 ~ Potting Bench Kitchen
Published
Potting Bench Kitchen
Kitchen Trends, Vol. 25, No. 5
CLEAR VERTICAL-GRAIN FIR
 
Contact Richard @

(425) 957-0451
8 ~ Evergreen Point Tudor
Tour home
Tudor Inspired
Sub-Zero as Armoire
WALNUT, CHERRY & PAINTED
KITCHENS TO INSPIRE 
9 ~ Floating On Air!
 Tour home & award-winning 
Floating On Air
National  Best Overall Kitchen
AFRICAN RIBBON MAHOGANY
& CARAMELIZED BAMBOO
10 ~ Spinning Plate Kitchen
Award-winning

Spinning Plate Kitchen
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

Alder cabinets; custom glasswork
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
Shifting Pathways
 Concealed pull-out hood
CHERRY CABINETS
19  ~ Windows Above!
New home

Holmes Point
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"
A Tunnel Kitchen
WHITE-PAINTED
23 ~ Bring in the Light!
Tour Kitchen

Bring in the Light!
ESPRESSO-GLAZED ALDER
+ WALNET & MAPLE COUNTERS
5 SEATTLE BUNGALOW KITCHEN REMODELS
24 ~ Greenwood
Published

Walking Up Stairs
Walking Up Drawers
MAPLE
25 ~ Near the Montlake Cut
 
Published

Montlake Bungalow
A Bungalow Opens Up
WHITE-PAINTED CABINETS
& CHERRY
26 ~ Top of Queen Anne
Still a beauty years later 
Queen_Anne_Bungalow Another Bungalow Opens Up
ALDER WITH ANIGRE
27 ~ West Seattle
Glossy zebrawood

Glossy zebrawood
Glossy Zebrawood
ZEBRAWOOD & GLASS
28 ~ In the Bryant neighorhood
Featurning a Lacanche range

A Lacanche range loves its new home! 
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
Split-level
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
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On to read about Landon's 
"Designed by L.I.F.E." Process
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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
Splish-Splash Twin Boys' Bath
WHITE-PAINTED
& CHERRY CABINETS
3 - Bathing in the Round
REX Award

CHERRY
4 ~ Elegant Master Bath
Tour home & award-winning 
Marbled wall master bath
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 & Brass
WALNUT
8 ~ 10"-Deep Powder Vanity
Tour home
MAHOGANY & BAMBOO

~  Very Small Powder
Award-winning
Very small powder, featuring bamboo flooring on walls
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
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"What Not To Do" Pictures   
as seen on a home tour
Designed by L.I.F.E.
On to read about Landon's 
"Designed by L.I.F.E." Process
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