Frequently Asked Questions — Landolac Designs

A design-first approach means the layout, function, and flow of your kitchen are completely redesigned before a single product is specified or ordered. Most cabinet showrooms and contractors skip this step — they measure your existing kitchen and fit products into whatever space you already have. Anna Landolac redesigns the kitchen properly first, which often reveals wasted space, poor traffic flow, and missed storage opportunities that a standard measure-and-install process would leave behind. The most common reaction from clients seeing their new design for the first time is: "Oh wow, I never thought of that." That moment — seeing what your kitchen could actually be — is what the design-first process is built around.

Landolac Designs is an authorized dealer of  Kemper and Mantra  and Bertch cabinetry— two respected all-wood cabinet lines offered at different investment levels. This means clients have genuine choice in how they allocate their budget without sacrificing construction quality or design integrity. All cabinetry is specified by Anna as part of the design process, not selected from a generic showroom catalog. Countertop options include Cambria, Pompeii, and Infinity porcelain, and tile selections are sourced through Bardosian. Every product in the kitchen is chosen to work together as a system, not as individual purchases.

Hiring a designer first protects your investment by ensuring that everything a contractor bids on and installs is based on a thoughtful, complete design — not a rough sketch or a best guess. Contractors are skilled at building what they are given; they are not trained to redesign your kitchen layout, optimize traffic flow, or make cohesive selections across cabinetry, countertops, tile, and lighting. When a contractor leads the process, expensive design mistakes often get built in rather than avoided. Anna Landolac serves homeowners in Bonita Springs, Naples, Fort Myers, Estero, and Cape Coral who have learned — sometimes the hard way — that design decisions made after installation begins cost far more to fix than they would have cost to plan correctly from the start.