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Join award-winning model home interior designer, Mary DeWalt, as she covers the hottest trends for your kitchen in two minutes flat!

Mary shares design secrets for two model homes from Jimmy Jacobs Custom Homes in Caballo Ranch -- a new home community in Cedar Park, Texas, near Austin.

Mary DeWalt Design Group and Jimmy Jacobs Custom Homes are winners of the 2012 Silver National Award from The National Sales & Marketing Council of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).

Here is what Mary DeWalt has to say:
Hi, I am Mary DeWalt. I am president of Mary DeWalt Design Group and we specialize in model home merchandising for new home builders. We are in the kitchen of a Jimmy Jacobs model home in the Austin, Texas area and I just wanted to talk a little bit about some of the trends that we are seeing in kitchens today. Kitchens are probably the most important room in the house to so many people. It is kind of the heart of the home. Everybody, you know, congregates here. One of the first trends we are seeing is instead of having the bar raised up to 42 inches for the barstools; we are lowering everything to the 36 inch counter height. It makes the kitchen feel larger, you don't have to climb up on bar stools, and you also have more counter space to work in. Another trend is cleaner, less cluttered interiors. This kitchen has some great cabinets that have a light stain with a brown glaze on them, kind of a tea stain, and we call this look sort of a new country look. We have the rooster over here, but what makes it fresh and new is the stainless tile backsplash that we have added and we have installed it vertically instead of horizontally and it gives you a little more height. Another trend is, remember the days when we had all of the ivies and the baskets and everything cluttering the top of the cabinets, which was nothing but a big dust catcher? These days we are accessorizing the top of the cabinets with fewer accessories, little groupings, and adding a lot of color. We also add color to the walls. The walls in this kitchen are a really bright terra-cotta kind of coral color and it makes for a really bright, happy environment.




To learn about the builder and the Caballo Ranch community, visit http://www.newhomesource.com/communit..., where you'll find additional photos and floorplans for this home and a link to the builder's website.

To learn about Mary DeWalt, visit http://www.marydewaltdesigngroup.com/.

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