McPhie Cabinetry, Offering A Variety Of Kitchen ane Bath Remodeling Services from Designing Kitchens To Installing and Building Cabinetry, Bozeman, (MT)

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"As an interior design consultant, McPhie Cabinetry was terrific to work with on this commercial showroom project. They're enthusiasm, professional drawings, and installation were the best I could ask for. It made my job much more enjoyable."

Jill Manlove, Design Consultant Jill Manlove Design

Expect more from a kitchen and bath design firm. McPhie Cabinetry has designed hundreds of well-functioning and innovative spaces for homes across Montana and as far away as Bermuda. Our imaginative design staff assists in creating a space of dreams and desires while maintaining functionality, safety and efficiency to suit individual lifestyles and budget.

The design staff has been trained in, and is knowledgeable about, universal design, green building techniques, accessibility, interior design, appliance requirements, and electrical and plumbing considerations. This knowledge base allows the designers to meet your every design need.

Either hand-drawn or computer aided drafted floor plans and elevations help to illustrate the finished product throughout the planning and design process. Use of sketches, perspectives and electrical notes may also be provided in fine tuning decisions.

McPhie Cabinetry has an in-house, highly skilled installation crew who is extremely knowledgeable regarding the details of individual cabinet lines. Kristie McPhie stated that “Sometimes we are the general contractor and sometimes we are the sub. By teaming up, we create the dynamics for delivering more in-depth, long-term customer satisfaction.”

• Kitchens
• Bathrooms
• Libraries
• Home Offices
• Laundry rooms
• Entertainment Centers
• Walk-In Closet Systems

• Built-In Cabinetry
• Hutches
• Shelving
• If it can be made out of wood, McPhie Cabinetry can build it!

Sustainable Design:

McPhie Cabinetry & Sustainable Design
By Kristie McPhie

What color green? Discussions of 'Sustainable' & 'Green' design are both complex & confusing. How can we balance stewardship of our planet with dreams of what our homes should be? Are your priorities a healthier interior air quality in your home, limiting impact on the environment?

As a child my grandmother braided rugs using everything from ragged shirts to snagged nylons and made soups for a large family from whatever she had on hand and left over. Scott spent his summers growing up on a ranch where wastefulness was simply not an option. We both spent hours outdoors playing on the rivers and snows of the Rocky Mountains and the commitment to protecting that for future generations, including our grandchildren, runs deep in us.

When we started our business in 1977, a motivating factor was a desire to provide both products and design that would stand the test of time. It seems to be working as we are currently in a wave of countertop updates on cabinets we installed over 20 years ago. Well designed, efficiently planned spaces can be smaller and more energy efficient. About half of our business has always been remodeling; recycling existing homes to suit the needs of today. Along that same vein, we began the restoration and remodel of our own building in downtown Bozeman in 1980, which includes reclaimed wood flooring and tile made in Montana.

McPhie Cabinetry offers many sustainable products and options including low V.O.C. finishes, formaldehyde free cabinet cases, reclaimed wood specie options, Forest Stewardship Council certified cabinets, “green” countertop materials, cabinet hardware born of recycled materials, etc…

Scott McPhie's background is in construction and business. Kristie McPhie adds to that, her experience and education in art and interior design. Kristie helped form the MT (Big Sky) chapter of the National Kitchen and Bath Association and has served the chapter in most positions. The national board of the National Kitchen and Bath Association has tapped Kristie for her industry

expertise including three years on the National Board of Directors. Kristie is a Certified Kitchen Designer. Scott McPhie and our other knowledgeable craftsmen and installers, Kevin Miller and Tom Brutger add the finishing touches and details to your kitchen. And of course, Heather McPhie, our bookkeeper, handles the accounting while traveling the World Cup Freestyle Mogul Circuit.

Principles of Sustainable Design:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While the practical application varies among disciplines, some common principles are as follows:

• Low-impact materials: choose non-toxic, sustainably-produced or recycled materials which require little energy to process
• Energy efficiency: use manufacturing processes and produce products which require less energy
• Quality and durability: longer-lasting and better-functioning products will have to be replaced less frequently, reducing the impacts of producing replacements
• Design for reuse and recycling: "Products, processes, and systems should be designed for performance in a commercial 'afterlife'."
• Design Impact Measures for total earth footprint and life-cycle assessment for any resource use are increasingly required and available. Many are complex, but some give a quick and accurate whole earth estimates of impacts. One is estimating any spending as consuming an average economic share of global energy use as 8000btu/$ and CO2 production of .57kgCO2/$ (1995$) from DOE figures.
• Sustainable Design Standards and project design guides and also increasingly available and vigorously being developed originated by wide array private and organizations and individuals. There is also a large body of new methods emerging from the rapid development of what has become known as 'sustainability science' promoted by a wide variety of educational and governmental institutions.
• Biomimicry: "redesigning industrial systems on biological lines ... enabling the constant reuse of materials in continuous closed cycles..."
• Service substitution: shifting the mode of consumption from personal ownership of products to provision of services which provide similar functions, e.g. from a private automobile to a cars haring service. Such a system promotes minimal resource use per unit of consumption (e.g., per trip driven).
• Renewability: materials should come from nearby (local or bioregional), sustainably-managed renewable sources that can be composted (or fed to livestock) when their usefulness has been exhausted.
• Healthy Buildings: sustainable building design aims to create buildings that are not harmful to their occupants nor to the larger environment. An important emphasis is on indoor environmental quality, especially indoor air quality.

McPhie Cabinetry
435 East Main Bozeman, MT 59715
Phone (406) 586-1708 Fax (406) 587-4353
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