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Luxury Kitchen Design
Seen in Personat theHOME DESIGN AND REMODELING SHOW

January 29–31, 2027
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Broward County Convention Center 1950 Eisenhower Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
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Luxury Kitchen Design

Six Decisions You Can Settle in One Afternoon

You pick six things one at a time. Then they share one room for the next twenty years. A rendering makes all six look good.

  • The island. Size it around the walkways, not around the photo.
  • The stone slab. Yours is one piece of rock. No two match.
  • The cabinets. The boxes are the part you cannot swap later.
  • The appliances. They set the wiring, the venting and the cabinet run.
  • The lighting. It decides what the stone looks like after dark.
  • The backsplash. The easiest of the six to change your mind about.

A four-inch sample chip tells you nothing about the slab it was cut from. Fifteen minutes at a full-size island, with your own samples in hand, settles what a month of saved photos cannot.

See it at the Fort Lauderdale Home Show, January 29–31, 2027 at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale.

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100K+Annual Attendees
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Before You Spend

What to Ask at a Luxury Kitchen Booth

Three things decide how a kitchen turns out. Each one is easier to settle at a booth than to read about at home.

Ask to See the Real Slab

In a photo, quartz, quartzite, marble and granite look alike. On the floor you can put a hand on each one.

What to ask
  • Engineered quartz is the forgiving one. Nothing soaks in and it never needs sealing. A hot pan set straight down can still burn a mark into it.
  • Quartzite is harder, and it wants sealing. It takes heat better than quartz. It asks for more care in return.
  • Marble etches the first time a lemon sits on it. An etch is a dull spot where acid ate the shine. Some people love that worn look. Others cannot live with it.
  • Ask about heat, oil, red wine and a dropped pot. How a stone handles those four matters more than its color.
  • See the real slab yours will be cut from. The veining moves from slab to slab. One stone name can cover two pieces that look nothing alike.
Stand at a Full-Size Island

The island is the part people size wrong. Walk up to a built one and a minute tells you what a drawing hides.

What to ask
  • 42 to 48 inches of walkway on every side where people cook or walk past. Leave more room where a dishwasher or an oven door swings open.
  • 12 to 15 inches of overhang. Any less and knees will not fit under the counter.
  • About 24 inches of width per stool. Four seats means eight feet of counter edge.
  • Sink, cooktop or neither? Decide that first. It sets the plumbing, the wiring and the venting. It also decides whether you get one clean run of stone with nothing cut into it.
  • Get a price with and without a waterfall end. That is stone that runs down the side of the island to the floor. It eats up more slab and costs more to cut.
  • Do the same for a mitered edge. That is two pieces of stone joined at the corner to fake a thicker top. It adds a seam and more shop labor.
Take One List to Every Booth

No two kitchen quotes are written the same way. Ask each booth about these lines.

What to ask
  • Every line marked “allowance.” An allowance is cash they set aside for something you have not picked yet. Look for one on appliances, fixtures, lighting, hardware and stone per square foot. Set that number low and an easy bid turns into a shock the day you go shopping.
  • Tear-out and dumpsters, permits and inspections. These are the lines a cheap bid leaves off.
  • A heavier wire run for a bigger range. A large range pulls more power than the one you have now. That new wire has to be in the quote.
  • Makeup air for a high-CFM hood. CFM is how much air the hood pulls out each minute. A strong one pulls so hard that the house needs fresh air fed back in. Easy to leave off a quote, not optional in the build.
  • Drywall, paint and floor patching where a wall came out. Add the final clean, too. This is the cheapest part of the job to forget.
  • Who owns the schedule when the countertop template slips a week? The template is the day they measure your finished cabinets for stone. Ask who eats that delay before you sign.
On the Show Floor

Islands, Countertops and Working Kitchens, Full Size

Real photos from recent shows.

An iKitchen booth shows a black fluted kitchen island with marble-look top and white chairs in front of a styled black shelving wall with purple decor, set on a cowhide rug, in a portrait show-floor shot.
Designer kitchens, built at full sizeHome Show 2024
A booth staffer in a black shirt shows a black sink-and-faucet countertop display to a woman in a striped top and a man in a white polo at a 'Concreti' stone booth.
Countertop and sink, up closeHome Show 2025
A booth representative and a customer in a blue patterned shirt converse across a white quartz kitchen island with a bowl of lemons at the Corner Stone Kitchen, Bath & Floor booth.
Talking it out over quartzHome Show 2025
A white 'AVANI Kitchens | Baths | Floors' booth sign with a green logo, mounted on wood-slat panels above racks of large-format tile and stone samples.
Racks of stone and tileHome Show 2024
Two chefs serve tasting plates to a woman over the demo kitchen counter in front of a 'Live Culinary Experience' banner, in a candid show-floor scene.
The demo kitchen, mid-serviceHome Show 2024
Four people plate food at a kitchen demo counter beside a 'Live Culinary Experience' sponsor banner, with one man in a black Tulio's shirt serving.
A counter built to be cooked onHome Show 2024
Two chefs assemble tacos and plate food on a white marble demo-kitchen counter crowded with hot pans and prep trays, in front of a 'Live Culinary Experience' banner.
Marble taking heat, oil and pansHome Show 2024
A male iKitchen rep holds up a sample board for two female shoppers at a dark kitchen-island display with purple flowers and dark cabinetry behind.
Kitchen Design Ideas

Steal the Details That Actually Work

Every idea here is built, not drawn. You can see how it is made and what it hides.

You can see how it catches the light. You can also see how much of a pain it will be to clean.

What to ask
  • Fluted and reeded island panels. Those are the narrow grooves cut down the face of the cabinet. They give you texture you can read from across the room. They also give you grooves to clean for years.
  • Integrated appliance fronts. A cabinet panel goes on the front of the fridge and the dishwasher. Both then vanish into the run of cabinets.
  • A charging drawer and a second prep sink. Both are far easier to plan now than to add later.
  • Under-cabinet and toe-kick lighting. The toe kick is the notch at the bottom of the base cabinets. A photo never shows you what either light really does.
  • A full-height backsplash. The tile runs all the way to the ceiling instead of stopping at the upper cabinets.

Designer or Supplier? Ask Four Questions

The show is the fastest way to tell one from the other. Ask each booth the same four questions.

  • Who draws the plan? A supplier sells you parts. A designer draws the room they go in.
  • Who measures the stone? Whoever measures owns the mistake.
  • Who books the appliance install? This is the job that falls between two companies.
  • Who is in your house on tear-out morning? Ask for the name of the person, not the firm.

Some firms carry all of it under one contract. Others do one piece beautifully and hand off the rest. Both are good answers.

The bad ending is finding out which one you hired after the cabinets ship.

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Why It Beats Six Showroom Visits

Three Things a Rendering Cannot Do

See Stone Under Honest Light

Slab color shifts with the light above it and the cabinet below it. So bring your own reference:

What goes wrong
  • A cabinet door sample. A warm white turns yellow next to cool grey veining.
  • An offcut of your flooring. Nothing else in the room is that big.
  • A photo of your wall paint. Hold it up beside the slab, not beside a screen.

Ask a booth to show you one stone polished and leathered. The matte one reads shades darker.

A vein that looks amazing online can swallow a small room.

Stand at the Island

Put your hands on a full-size island and it stops being a drawing. Then check four things.

What goes wrong
  • The overhang. It has to clear your knees.
  • The walkway. Someone should pass behind you while you stand at the sink.
  • The waterfall end. Feel how the stone sits against your leg.
  • The counter height. See whether it suits the way you cook.

Compare Quotes the Same Day

One showroom a weekend takes you a month.

Here every designer, cabinet shop, stone cutter and appliance dealer sits in one room at once.

Hand them all the same list of work. Walk out with numbers you can lay side by side.

Frequently Asked Questions

Luxury Kitchen Design at the Home Show

Kitchen companies are part of the floor every show, though the exact line-up changes. Design-build firms draw the plan and build it too. Custom cabinet makers bring finished boxes. Stone shops cut and set countertops, and suppliers bring real slabs. Appliance dealers, sink and faucet brands, lighting shops, tile and backsplash showrooms and flooring companies fill in the rest. Most build full-size displays. You walk up to a finished island instead of a catalog.
Wall lengths and ceiling height, plus where the windows and doors sit. The sizes of your appliances, and photos of the room from a few angles. A budget range you are willing to say out loud. For finishes, bring a cabinet door sample, an offcut of your floor and a photo of your wall paint. Hold those against a real slab under the show lights. That is the difference between a guess and a number.
Often, yes. Many kitchen booths will sketch a layout while you stand there. Some price the work at the booth. Some book a visit to measure at your house. Ask every company to price the same list of work. Numbers on the same scope are the only ones you can really compare. You do not have to buy anything to ask.
Yes. A new countertop turns on the same choices as a gut job. The stone, the cabinet fronts, the lighting, the backsplash. None of those read right in a photo. Racks of stone and tile sit out in the open. Islands are built full size, so you can put your hands on one. The hall is indoors and air-conditioned. Take an unhurried afternoon and leave with a shortlist instead of a folder of screenshots.
Spend on what you touch every day and what hurts to change later. That means the layout, the cabinet boxes and the drawer slides. It means the countertop, the hood that vents the range, and the lighting. Those parts either hold the room up or hide inside a wall. Hardware, hanging lights, stools and the backsplash are easy to swap out later. That is the safer place to save money. Ask each booth which parts of their quote would tear the kitchen up all over again.
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Bring Your Measurements and Your Samples

Walk in with wall lengths, a door sample and a photo of your floor. Walk out with real numbers from the people who would actually build the kitchen. January 29–31, 2027 at the Broward County Convention Center.

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