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Mary Richards ReportingSee-through fridge doors, freezer drawers, a huge stovetop or any size oven, placed anywhere in the kitchen -- it's all possible these days.
"You've got the great room, is what they call the family room, is now called the great room, so you're gonna make that kitchen look very, very comfortable and cozy."
Marie Pitcher with the Roth Concepts Center says more people are coming to remodel, not build.
"They love their home and they love where they are, so they're gonna remodel. They're going to redo their kitchen, they're taken out walls, re-doing, making their kitchen the focal point of the home."
Steve Clark designs kitchens at Orson Gygi.
"You just have to make a kitchen right for the person and right for the house."
Clark says he takes a lot into consideration when designing a kitchen.
"The kitchen I create for someone who loves cooking is very very different than someone who just views it as a task."
He considers the types of food prepared.
"If a cook loves to make pasta and soups then we're probably going to want what's called a pot filler by the stove, if a person steams vegetables a lot then they might want a steam oven. If they have lots of pottery or china and they like displaying that, we have to find a space for that."
Pitcher says she sees more older customers, if you will.
"They want their dream kitchen now, life is just too short to wait."
Clark says many customers are on their second or third house and may spend around 40 thousand dollars.
"I've lived with this horrible kitchen for long enough, I deserve something better."
