July 2026

A bathroom remodel usually starts at the fun end. You save photos of floating vanities, matte-black fixtures, and big walk-in showers with linear drains, and you start picturing the finished room. That is the natural place to begin, and there is nothing wrong with it. The catch is that the finishes you fall for first […]

The single most expensive item in most kitchen remodels just got more expensive to buy. At the start of 2026, tariffs on a wide range of imported kitchen cabinets climbed sharply — from 25% to 50%, according to industry reporting on the new trade action. Because roughly 60% of the cabinets sold in the United

You have seen the montage: a sledgehammer swings on Monday, and by the end of the episode a family is hugging in a finished kitchen. It makes a remodel look like a two-week event with demolition at the center of the story. In a real Nashville kitchen remodel, demo day is one of the shortest

A federal decision that could push a typical Middle Tennessee kitchen’s quartz countertop cost from about $504 to $1,036 is currently sitting on the President’s desk. If you have a kitchen remodel already in the works — slab picked, contract signed, or just penciled onto the calendar — the timing of that ruling matters. This

Every Guthrie designer sees the same conversation pattern walking into the Pleasant View showroom. A homeowner arrives with a Pinterest board full of white oak fronts, unlacquered brass, and a quartz slab that looks like Calacatta marble. They know which pendant they want over the island. What they have not decided — usually because nobody

Middle Tennessee families who wanted a bigger, better-designed home spent the last two years watching move-up math get harder. New listings sit longer, mortgage payments look nothing like what neighbors locked in five years ago, and now federal data confirms the slowdown that homeowners have been feeling. The U.S. Census Bureau’s May 2026 New Residential