What You Will Learn
Have you been putting off learning the new Kitchen & Bath Design Guidelines? Tune into this one hour “Cliff’s Notes” version of the Guidelines. Get over that procrastination and make the new Guidelines your friend. They are the standard of professional practice for kitchen & bath designers.
Learn why certain guidelines changed so much, why some sections got dropped, and why there are entirely new sections. The old guidelines were not thrown out;rather they were studied, dissected, debated, and eventually a consensus was reached for clarifying, expanding, and illustrating each guideline. You need to know this stuff! If you don’t, you may be opening yourself to legal liability.
Walk away with a game plan to navigate through the Guidelines and apply them to all your projects, as applicable. If you tell a client that the minimum aisleway is 48” and they insist on 36”, it’s on them; you’re off the hook. Finally, there’s one good reason to learn them; since all NKBA contests are judged based on the Guidelines, you had best meet all of them if you hope to win. (Or at least have a good explanation of why you couldn’t).
Learning Objectives:
- To help users “let go” of the old standards and embrace the new expanded ones
- To show how to navigate and more easily utilize the new Guidelines
- To highlight the most radically changed Guidelines and explain why they changed
- To reassure designers that these are just that, Guidelines. Not codes (although Codes were incorporated) or regulations. There wasn’t one member of the task force that drafted these new Guidelines who hadn’t broken one or more of the old Guidelines
Featured Presenter
Doug Walter, CMKBD, Owner of Doug Walter Architects
Doug Walter, AIA, CMKBD, is an architect in Denver, who has specialized in residential remodeling for the past 44 years. He has special expertise in lighting, accessibility, historic preservation, and kitchens & baths. In his career, he has won 150 local and national awards, including Kitchen & Bath Design Industry Awards at KBIS 2022 and 2023. In addition to winning awards for his work, he has judged numerous local and national contests, including the 2022 KBB Product of the Year and the 2021 KBDN Design Awards. Doug is also a Contributing Editor for Pro Remodeler magazine, and besides writing for industry publications, he has presented at numerous conventions including Lightfair 2020, and 7 of the past Kitchen & Bath Industry Shows, where his seminars are consistently highly-rated.
Doug was also recognized as one of the “2018 Top 50 Innovators” by KBDN magazine, and is an active member of NKBA’s Rocky Mountain Chapter where he chairs the Professional Development Committee.
Doug recently served on one national working group for NKBA, to create the Lighting Badge curriculum, and another one charged with rewriting the new Kitchen & Bath Design Guidelines published in June 2022. Currently he is serving on a third working group charged with rewriting the NKBA Certification requirements. He is also a voting member of the IES Committee, “Lighting for Seniors and the Low Vision Community”, where he helped author a new consumer guide, “Lighting Your Way to Better Vision”.
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