Slide Show: The Bright Way to Design
March 19, 2013

The galley kitchen plan can be just as efficient as the typical kitchen "triangle" layout.

Counters are thick, polished concrete, a smooth contrast to the shiny gloss of the white cabinets.

Details include the simple wood shelves contrasting with clean, white subway tile.

A minimalist maximalist remodel of a master bathroom suite in Vancouver: "We clad the bathroom in white horizontally stacked tile, Athens Silver Cream heated marble floors from Ann Sacks, and a mosaic shower."

The mosaic-tiled double shower gets an elegant, frameless and nearly invisible glass enclosure.

Bright Designlab and Hammer & Hand custom designed the white concrete trough sink. Faucets are wall-mounted, and lighting is recessed.

The sink and faucet could not have cleaner lines.

Bright Designlab remodeled the kitchen of a Pearl District loft for a couple who've lived there for years and were finally ready to get the kitchen they really want. The custom-built walnut shelf "winds through the space - connecting the contrast of elem

Bright Designlab used open grain walnut lower cabinets to contrast with glossy white/back painted glass upper cabinets.

Striated glass stacked tile backsplash is from Ann Sacks; open shelves are walnut.

A pop of color for Bright Designlab's remodel of a kitchen for a family (with a young child) in Southeast Portland.

Clever yet simple cabinet details.

Reclaimed wood floors, sleek and shiny white cabinets.

An Irvington kitchen remodel collaboration between Bright Designlab and Hammer & Hand balances industrial and modern. Cabinetry looks sleek enough to be European, but was built for the project in Portland.