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Kristina Phillips in the remodeled kitchen of her Ridgewood home. The kitchen features Shaker-style cabinets that have flat, clean lines. The microwave? It's below the counter. "I just didn't want to see it," she says.

Clean lines. Sleek design. Cool colors.

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A kitchen in Englewood completed last summer by Peter Salerno Inc. contains many of the elements trending this year: island seating, Caesarstone quartz countertop, white cabinets with Shaker doors, a ceiling fixture featuring Mason jars, and a backsplash of glass and porcelain tile.

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A Wyckoff kitchen done in 2014 by Creative Kitchen & Bath showcases the trends breaking this year: quartz countertops and a marble backsplash.

No some of the hot design trends for kitchens in 2015.

Softer colors such as gray hues and white and Shaker-style cabinets have been bubbling up for the past couple of years and are among the top wants in new kitchen designs. Backsplashes are playing a big role, as are more informal seating and charging stations in the kitchen. And try looking up: Ceilings are increasingly standing out in the design mix.

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Some like it hot, but when it comes to kitchen design, most of us dont dare to boldly go where no one has gone before. A little edgy with backsplashes, maybe. A lime spatula or even a KitchenAid mixer in raspberry, why not? But an aqua fridge? Or a radiant orchid range? Seriously?

Seriously. This is not for the design timid. This is about the anti-white kitchen, that classic that remains most picked, in spite of what design editors may want.

White is not at all what Pasadena, Calif., homeowners Karen and Brian Frid-Madden wanted. They envisioned an almost Alice in Wonderland-like gathering place for their two small daughters. They are also huge fans of the work of Mexican architect Luis Barragn (known for expansive planes of color even on the facades of buildings), so color fit right in.

Barragn used color to augment his mastery of space and light within his designs, said Elina Katsioula-Beall of DeWitt Designer Kitchens, who worked with the Frid-Maddens. This, coupled with the theme of bringing the outdoors in by using the cabinetry to evoke fuchsia flower beds, gave us a unique starting point.

For the design, Katsioula-Beall teamed a neon palette with iridescent tiles, silver painted backsplash and stainless steel, which she says absorb the vibrant hues like tinted chameleons as the play of light passes over them.

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Some may think it a cacophony of color. Others may be more comfortable with monochromatic splashes of bold hues. New York-based Miles Redd has a few high-gloss apple green kitchen cabinets in his design repertoire, making for haute drama in tight spaces.

In the past year, though, a move out of safe neutrals was not limited to cabinets, custom or not. Faucets, sinks, refrigerators and even ranges were introduced in astonishingly unexpected hues. Last years Pantone color of the year, Radiant Orchid, was repped in ovens by Dacor and a range by BlueStar. Now thats some commitment. But no worries if youre not jazzed by the purple family; BlueStar offers more than 750 color and finish selections.

Chicago designer John Wiltgen has never delved into brights in the more permanent parts of the kitchen. Instead hes paved backsplashes with expressive geometric patterns and popped in bright accessories. In his own home, he did wrap an entire kitchen wall in embossed snakeskin-like leather; still, its a muted gray.

Were doing two white kitchens right now, Wiltgen says. One is for a transplanted San Francisco couple who were remodeling for two years and then got transferred here. They hope to stay put, but they dont want the design to affect resale value.

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Mike Chinelli of Chinelli Design Build in Orange City stands in the kitchen area of the great room in his courtyard model Belle Ferme in DeLand that is entered in the Volusia Building Industry Associations 2015 Parade of Homes that end today.

The 2015 Parade of Homes events for both the Volusia Building Industry Association and Flagler Home Builders Association draw to a close today.

The annual events, both of which began March 21, feature the latest in new home design and decor by builders throughout Volusia and Flagler counties.

All model homes in the self-guided tours will be open for public viewing from noon to 5 p.m.

The Volusia Parade of Homes features 61 new single-family model houses, townhouses, condominium units and communities. The Flagler parade features 32 entries.

Today is the final day for the general public to check out the largest annual Volusia County-wide showcase of area builders and the latest trends in new home construction, design and decor.

One of the entries in the Volusia parade is by Orange City-based builder Chinelli Design Build.

After a nine-year absence from the parade, Mike Chinelli entered a model home he has dubbed the Belle Ferme, a 4,000-square-foot, custom-built European-style farmhouse in DeLand that includes two courtyards and a swimming pool.

A lot of folks go thought the homes in the parade, so its great exposure, Chinelli said.

Chinelli started in the construction industry working for different contractors right out of DeLand High School in 1976. A few years later he formed a framing crew to support himself while he took some college courses.

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Steamboat Springs Construction is abuzz in the Wildhorse Meadows area of Mount Werner, where five residences are nearing completion and a massive office building is beginning to take shape.

The first part of Homestead at Wildhorse includes five three- and four-bedroom residences in two buildings and is scheduled for completion along Bangtail Way in June or July, according to Garrett Simon, partner of Meriwether Companies, a development firm tasked with handling the design, construction and sales of the Homestead residences for the property owner, Real Capital Solutions.

One of the five units is under contract with a family from Texas who was already familiar with the area and was sold on the numerous amenities of the development, including easy access to the Wildhorse Gondola and an athletic club, according to Colleen de Jong, broker with Steamboat Sothebys International Realty and co-listing agent for the homes, along with Arelene Zopf of Steamboat Village Brokers.

Access to the gondola is a huge selling point, said de Jong, who noted that theres been steady interest in the development, mostly from those interested in a second home, including people who already live elsewhere in the Wildhorse area.

Construction broke ground in August on the homes, which range from 1,700 to 3,100 square feet, and will embody a mountain modern design with rich details and lots of natural elements, de Jong said.

Drywall is beginning to go up inside the buildings and interior trim and exterior siding will be added over the next couple of months, Simon said.

A second phase of construction with two more buildings is expected to break ground early in the summer, as the first phase is completed, he said.

Prices for the remaining four residences are listed as ranging from $1.28 million to $1.6 million, depending on size.

When completed, Homesteads will have 17 residences in five buildings.

Nearby on Bangtail Way, offices for a Steamboat Springs hedge fund will soon take shape.

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TEXARKANA --United States Postal Service officials announced plans to move out of Texarkana's federal building but say they are committed to maintaining an office in downtown Texarkana.

Postal Service spokesman McKinney Boyd said the relocation is expected in the next 15 months.

"The USPS is working with General Services Administration to help them expand the U.S. district courts and [federal] marshals' office that occupy space in that building," Boyd said. "We have our real estate professionals looking at available retail space for a post office in downtown Texarkana, Ark."

Boyd said the USPS was notified by letter from the General Services Administration of the need for the space to accommodate the courts and U.S. Marshals Service offices. The building houses federal court personnel in the Texarkana divisions of the Eastern District of Texas and the Western District of Arkansas.

Boyd said the Postal Service plans involve only relocation, not a shuttering of the office.

"Customers in downtown Texarkana, Ark., will not lose a U.S. Postal Service presence. Postal management is committed to find an alternate location in the downtown area, which will accommodate our employees and serve our customers, in a progressive, new retail environment," Boyd said.

The office is staffed by only one full-time employee. In 2011, Texarkana lost its unique Texarkana, Ark-Tex, postmark when the local mail processing center was merged with one in Shreveport.

Exactly how the space now occupied by the post office will be used is unclear. Calls to the Government Services Administration, which manages the building, were not returned immediately.

Texarkana Mayor Ruth Penney-Bell said she strongly opposes a move from the downtown federal building, the only one in the country that straddles a state line and houses federal courts and a post office that serve two states.

"The historical significance of this is so important to our community," Penney-Bell said. "This is the one place where both sides of the city meet. We come together here."

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