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clean look, a lot of modern farmhouse stuff, where you match the old with the new, and some modern rustic is the new trend we see.” Domer laughs but says that shows like Fixer Up per on HGTV can signifi cantly influence trends. “A lot of people are getting their countertops replaced now, and we can also carry it over to the backsplash,” he says. “We call it a full height backsplash, and they’ll put it up the wall. Then we’re also doing a lot of islands. So [homeowners] have their perimeter and a big island focal point in the center. And we can waterfall [the quartz] down the side of the cabinet or island.” From counters to cabinets and other accents, James Jus tice, owner of Architectural Justice in Medina, says anoth er hot thing in kitchens right now is metal. “The metal just adds something differ ent to the kitchen,” he says. Justice says the accents come in six different fin ishes, including gunmetal black, white, nickel, urbane bronze and raw steel.

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