By utilizing products that minimize VOCs, without added formaldehyde and are 100 percent pres-consumer recycled, Holiday Kitchens cabinetry offers the most complete line of elegant, healthy and eco-friendly cabinetry in the industry.

Established in 1946, Holiday Kitchens has always been a conservative and environmentally conscious company – part and parcel of its Midwestern work ethic.  The company is considered one of the most “greenest” cabinet manufacturers in the industry due its’ stringent manufacturing practices. Their focus has always been on producing beautiful quality cabinets with as little impact on the environment as possible. The result is the Holiday Kitchens “Live Green” collection that offers the most complete line of eco-friendly cabinetry on the market featuring products that are elegant, durable, low in VOC emissions, without added formaldehyde, renewable, sustainable, and much, much more.

You can read more about Healthy Home 2010 in the July/August issue of Traditional Home Magazine.

]]> http://blog.holidaykitchens.com/holiday-kitchens-featured-as-part-of-healthy-home-2010-in-traditional-home-magazine-healthy-child-healthy-home/feed/ 0 http://blog.holidaykitchens.com/holiday-kitchens-featured-on-pbs-for-your-home/ http://blog.holidaykitchens.com/holiday-kitchens-featured-on-pbs-for-your-home/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:38:53 +0000 Tamy Severude http://blog.holidaykitchens.com/?p=1213 Carol Lindell of Design Centers International (DCI), a Holiday Kitchens dealer located in Charlotte, NC and Robin Wilson were featured PBS.  Nationally syndicated home design and improvement show For Your Home .  Carol discusses the importance of using a professional kitchen and bath designer and why Holiday Kitchens is so great to work with.  Robin discusses why eco-friendly cabinetry is important and why Holiday Kitchens Custom Cabinetry should be the line of choice.

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Holiday Kitchens – For Your Home

Hosted by Vicki Payne, the program appears on over 550 PBS stations nationwide and was syndicated this past fall and winter 2011. Please check your local listings for air time on 3/26/2011.

Fisher’s Kitchen & Bath in Topeka, KS has partnered with the Hy-Vee grocery store to sponsor their new Culinary Club Room Kitchen.  This room is host to catered business and community events, as well as Chef Alli’s cooking classes and corporate training events.

During the design phase, Hy-Vee & Fisher’s Kitchen & Bath were committed to using as many eco-friendly products as possible.  While conventional kitchens are anything but friendly to the earth (think non-sustainable woods & granite) the Topeka Hy-Vee kitchen is full of the latest green products.  These eco-friendly products include the Robin Wilson Home (RWH) Custom Cabinetry Collection by Holiday Kitchens  and recycled quartz countertops from Caesarstone’s Environment First collection. 

Lynda Fisher, from Fisher’s Kitchen & Bath, immediately thought of the RWH Collection by Holiday Kitchens custom cabinetry when the opportunity arose to help create a more user friendly space for Hy-Vee and its guests. The full access, European style cabinets brought new life and function to the space. 

Europeans have been in the kitchen a lot longer than us, which may explain why we can learn so much from them. While they were perfecting the art of cooking, they were also perfecting the art of kitchen design. Today’s European kitchens have three unique attributes:

• Innovative design
• Unusual materials
• Cutting edge technology

The new kitchen is “drawer-based”, the hottest trend in organization.  No more stooping over for Chef Allie!  Just pull out the drawer and you’ve got access to everything.  Items as diverse as tableware to tall olive oil bottles all have a specially designed drawer.  In one easy movement, everything is visible.  Searching in dark corners is a thing of the past.  Drawer-based kitchens are also particularly ideal for a handicapped user. Katherine, Hy-Vee’s Club Room Manager, and Chef Alli are delighted with the finished result.  The drawer based system allows them to find what they need with a quick glance. 

Adding to the organizational efficiency, the Culinary Club Room Kitchen is categorized by zones.  During the planning stage, tasks such as cooking, preparation, storage & others are all considered and placed in the most efficient location. The benefits are many, such as:

• Shorter journeys by correct organization
• Ergonomically correct & minimal lifting & movement
• Clearly arranged kitchen items
• Total access all the way to the back

The new Topeka Hy-Vee Culinary Club Room Kitchen is a brainy blend of precision kitchen organization & minimalist-styled cabinets that make it a pleasure to use.

Holiday Kitchens is sponsoring the speaking event and will be hosting a book signing with Wilson at its booth after Saturday’s presentation.  Holiday Kitchens’ eco-friendly collection – Robin Wilson Home Custom Cabinetry by Holiday Kitchens, is featured in three spaces in the Kennedy home including the kitchen, kitchenette and main laundry room.

Holiday Kitchens offers the most complete line of eco-friendly cabinetry in the industry.  The Robin Wilson Home collection features over 100 door styles in various materials including sustainable materials from bamboo, coconut, wenge, stainless steel, plus hardwood in cherry, maple, oak with low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) finishes. This frameless, custom-cabinetry line has over 10 percent more usable in-side space maximizing storage, cleaning and functionality, compared to framed cabinetry.

Local kitchen design firms Colorado Kitchen Designs, The Kitchen & Bath Studio, Lifestyle Kitchen & Bath, and NK Kitchen Design Studio will be in the Holiday Kitchens booth to speak with attendees concerning all their kitchen design needs.

Speaking Dates and Times 

September 10^th 4:00 p.m.

September 11^th Noon – book signing to follow at Holiday Kitchens’ Booth #951

Please stop by and say “Hi” – we would love to chat with you!

Healthy Home 2010 features the eco-friendly Robin Wilson Home Custom Cabinetry collection by Holiday Kitchens. This line features full access (frameless) construction using a no-added formaldehyde industrial board that is SCS and EPP certified to be 100% pre-consumer recycled wood fiber particleboard, as well as formaldehyde free glues.  Holiday Kitchens full access construction delivers 10 percent more usable space and by design eliminates the cracks and crevices that host dust and other hazardous allergens.  

Healthy Home 2010 is the first designer show house in the nation to bridge the gap between traditional green building and healthy interiors by implementing a new interior design protocol developed by a distinguished advisory board consisting of industry leaders in sustainable design.

The builder and design team’s primary objective for Healthy Home 2010 is to create a home that encourages family unity and a healthy lifestyle. This will be accomplished through both functional and aesthetic elements. The project’s collaborative spirit brings together the expertise of leaders in building, design and technology, who have joined forces to design and build the home. The home features sustainable and healthful home solutions that include green building materials, energy efficient products, innovative technologies, and furniture and accessories that will foster a healthful living environment and showcase some of the highest standards of environmental integrity.

Stay tuned to follow the progress of the home!

Holiday Kitchens’ eco-friendly collection – Robin Wilson Home Custom Cabinetry by Holiday Kitchens, is featured in three spaces in the home including the kitchen, kitchenette and main laundry room.

Contest will run July 20, 2010 – August 19, 2010.  Winner will be randomly selected and announced on August 20, 2010 on:

Holiday Kitchens’ Blog                   

Holiday Kitchens’ Facebook

Holiday Kitchens’ Twitter

Kennedy Green House, documents the eco-healthy remodel of Bobby and Mary Richardson Kennedy’s mold infested Westchester County home by a ”Green Dream Team.” From the drawing of architectural plans to the selection of eco-friendly building materials and power sources to the retooling of the home with health-promoting, energy efficient appliances and furnishings. Along the way, author Robin Wilson provides information and tips on how these changes can be implemented by any homeowner, whether it’s a broad renovation or simple, affordable replacements of common household items.

Holiday Kitchens’ eco-friendly collection – Robin Wilson Home Custom Cabinetry by Holiday Kitchens, is featured in three spaces in the home including the kitchen, kitchenette and main laundry room.

To purchase a copy of the Kennedy Green House, visit Amazon

See complete results for the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards at www.independentpublisher.com.

The vast majorities of VOCs are not harmful or regulated and are found in both the manufacturing environment, and surprisingly significant amounts, in our natural environment.  Remember that all plants and animals “off gas” in various ways.  The VOCs that are known to be harmful are regulated in the United States on a federal level by the EPA , and often on a more stringently basis by individual state environmental protection agencies 

 VOC’s are present in or emitted by thousands of products:

 What do VOCs have to do with Kitchen Cabinetry?

When it comes to your kitchen cabinetry, it is important to realize that “Not all boards are created equal!”   Cheaper varieties of products are cheap for a reason.  The product’s price more often than not will indicate if it was manufactured with resins containing high levels of urea formaldehyde , or with no added urea formaldehyde (NAUF) compliant resins.  Cheaper cabinetry may also contain high levels of VOCs from varnishes, stains and glues.  The finished product may be “cheaper” in the short run, but could cause traumatic and costly health problems in the long run. 

Holiday Kitchens is a privately-held cabinet manufacturer that has been in business for over 60 years and is one of the top 10 custom cabinet manufacturers in the USA.  Our Robin Wilson Home Custom Cabinetry Collection offers the most complete line of eco-friendly cabinetry in the industry.  Our focus is on creating quality, healthy, eco-friendly cabinetry through the utilization of low-VOC paints and stains and VOC- free glues.  Our Robin Wilson Home Collection of green (eco-friendly) cabinetry includes no added urea formaldehyde options.

This is just one of Holiday Kitchens’ many shades of Green!

We also featured a table island from our Traditional Collection, which was shown in Coffee Bean on Cherry with the Winchester door and a solid maple butcher block top. Osborne corner posts were used as the legs and the bottom shelf was solid shelving that had been grooved.  The island was constructed as one unit at the factory creating a beautiful furniture piece, gorgeous in any kitchen. 

The main focal point in our booth was the large white inset display that featured the Petersburg Square door and polished chrome latches.  This timeless display would remind your of walking into your Grandmother’s kitchen.

One of the biggest attractions at the show this year was our Coconut Palm table, which created a perfect space for our Kennedy Green House book signing with Robin Wilson.  The Kennedy Green House documents the remodeling of Mary Richardson  and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mold-infested Westchester County home.  The home features eco-friendly custom cabinetry by Holiday Kitchens.  The book can be purchased through Amazon.com.