Kitchen and Bath Show Rooms

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The Twin Cities is home to dozens of design show rooms that carry a wide range of items for your home. Knowledgeable sales consultants and on-site designers can help you find the right solutions and give you a head start as you plan your kitchen or bath project. Here’s a list of places to contact and explore. Watch for future show room listings for appliances, countertops, flooring, hardware, lighting, and furniture.

Kitchens & Baths
This year, the look for kitchens and baths is clean, uniform, and comfortable. “Bathrooms are getting so much bigger that they should almost have their own zip code,” says Martha O’Hara, owner of Martha O’Hara Interiors in Hopkins. “The bath today is actually a spa experience. It’s a destination.” Designer Bruce Kading, with Beson Kading Interior
Design Group in Minneapolis, agrees: “Softer, warmer, more inviting baths are definitely in.” So, too, is a unified architecturally distinct look in kitchen cabinetry and finish, says Laura Ramsey Engler, design principal with Ramsey Engler in Minneapolis. “People are interested in flow rather than disparate elements, and this is true across stylistic lines,” she says. Here are some show rooms to help you get your project underway:

Belle Kitchen
Show Room Insider: International Market Square, 275 Market St., Ste. 110, Minneapolis, 612-343-8889
Open Mon.–Sat., evenings and weekends by appointment.
Great Finds: Added a new exclusive line this year, SieMatic BeauxArts cabinetry from Germany based on late 19th–century architecture. An exclusive dealer of the clean-lined German-engineered Leicht cabinetry. Specializes in appliances and plumbing fixtures from Sub-Zero, Wolf, Gaggenau, Bosch, Thermador, Asko, KWC, Franke, as well as countertop surfaces, including natural stones and marbles, quartz surfaces, such as Silestone and Cambria, and solid surfaces, such as Corian.
Extras: Personalized design service along with installation and construction services to help coordinate a contemporary kitchen.
Sells directly to the public.

Crystal Kitchen Center
Show Room Insider: 3620 Winnetka Ave. N., Crystal, 763-544-5950
Open Mon.–Fri., half-day Sat.
Great Finds: Design-build company with twenty displays, showing contemporary to old-world kitchens and baths, a laundry, wine bar, outdoor kitchen, and entertainment center. Features locally made cabinets, including Crystal Cabinets from Princeton and Medallion Cabinets from Waconia. Also sells Paint Creek Wood Countertops from Iowa, as well as Cambria, Corian, and granites.
Extras: A one-stop shop specializing in remodeling needs, starting at the design phase, to demolition, to installation and finishing.
Sells directly to the public.

DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen
Show Room Insider: 6801 Wayzata Blvd., St. Louis Park, 952-417-9999 Open Mon.–Fri., half-day Sat., and by appointment.
Great Finds: This international franchise has access to products from around the world. Offers sixteen displays, including four that show the progression of a simple to total bathroom makeover. Products include Soterra Natural Stone Surfacing System, a cosmetic makeover product that can be applied to existing surfaces, and Danze faucets and Showplace cabinets.
Extras: A full design-build company with professional designers, project managers, and installers on staff to manage the project from start to finish.
Sells directly to the public.

See for Yourself: Ofuro from Sonoma Cast Stone is a Japanese-style soaking tub that turns a bathroom into a spa.

Fantasia Showrooms
Show Room Insider: International Market Square, 275 Market St., Ste. 102, Minneapolis, 612-338-5811
Open Mon.–Sat. Appointments recommended for long meetings to insure minimal wait time.
Great Finds: Decorative plumbing fixtures and faucets, cabinet hardware, and bath accessories. Any type of tile from glass and metal to leather, stone, and concrete. Exclusive lines such as Artistic Tile, Sonoma Cast Stone, Ann Sacks Tile & Stone, Rubinet Faucets, Vitraform, Wawirka, New Ravenna Mosaics and Stone, and Mixed-Up Mosaics.
Extras: Sales consultants work with design professionals or directly with homeowners not already working with interior designers.
Sells directly to the public.

See for Yourself: Designed for the cooking enthusiast, the Brizo PascaL electronic faucet offers hands-free technology.

Ferguson Bath and Kitchen Gallery
Show Room Insider: 10205 10th Ave. N., Plymouth, 763-544-8322; 670 E. Travelers Trail, Burnsville, 952-895-3673; 3050 Echo Lake
Ave., Mahtomedi, 651-779-9394
Burnsville and Plymouth locations open Mon.–Fri. Mahtomedi show room open Mon.–Sat.
Great Finds: Features kitchen and bath plumbing needs, from sinks to whirlpool tubs to body sprays, and stand-alone bath cabinetry. Mahtomedi show room also features full-house lighting needs. Top sellers include Kohler, Jacuzzi, and Maax.
Extras: In-store consultants provide undivided attention in these mainly by appointment show rooms.
Open to the public but sells only to the trade.