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Embrace natural elements to create a charming cottage-like bathroom. Creating a cottage styled bathroom is all about the natural and simplistic elements while still keeping the look and feel comfortable and cozy. As you select your color palette, try incorporating nature’s neutrals such as soft blues, subtle greens, pale yellows and light browns.  A few design ideas to consider include rounded windows and doors, distressed wood finishes, beadboard or wainscoting, a clawfoot tub, porcelain tile, airy curtains, wild flowers, antique accents and wicker baskets. Here are a few of our favorite pieces to help you create your cozy cottage bathroom. 1....

With so many kitchen sink options from which to choose, finding the perfect one can be tricky. How do you know what’s best for you?  Here is a breakdown of the most common materials on the market. Stainless Steel From left to right: Franke Orca, Blanco Performa, and Julien Vintage[/caption] Basics: Not all stainless steel is created equal.  Make sure you select a 304 surgical-grade stainless steel sink to ensure it is non-porous and hygienic.  The nickel and chromium content is another important factor as it makes the sink resistant to rust. The chromium gives the stainless steel its luster...

By: Mary Jo Martin Plumbing wholesalers are placing greater emphasis than ever on the importance of showrooms for their businesses and their customers. The focus has turned to architecturally inspired, interactive showrooms that excite and delight customers and trade professionals. One of the greatest illustrations of this movement is Edelman Plumbing Supply, based in Bedford Heights, Ohio. Edelman operates two showrooms — a 12,000-square-foot facility at the headquarters and a 9,600-square-foot showroom in Westlake, another Cleveland suburb. Edelman Plumbing Supply primarily focuses on residential plumbing products, along with accessories, vanities, cabinet and door hardware. President Sheldon Edelman, who has been with the company since 1976, believes strongly in the importance of investing in the continual evolution of the showrooms’ design and services. The Bedford...

By: John Booth Alan Edelman is one heck of a storyteller. Of course, it helps that he’s got one heck of a story. “I was 14 years old when the Soviet Union occupied our town (in Poland),” he recounted in an accent still prominent after almost six decades in America. “My father was arrested right away because he was a capitalist.” And the tale only grows more riveting: Five years in Siberia; the loss of three-quarters of his immediate family; a penniless December 1947 emigration to New York with his mother and brother. And in 1953, the basement beginnings of...

By Stan Bullard Sheldon Edelman, president of Edelman Plumbing & Supply Inc. of Bedford Heights, likes to recall how the family-owned company evolved into a supplier of decorative hardware, luxury kitchen and bathroom plumbing fixtures to contractors from its 1953 start as a materials supplier to hardware stores. From once supplying 100 stores, it now supplies five as big-box retailers overwhelmed independent hardware stores, and plumbing contractors and about 80 designers became Edelman's clientele. Confronted by the decimation of the home-building business that made up 40% of its business just three years ago, Edelman has embarked on a new direction:...