If you’re looking for a stylish update for your kitchen or bath, Kitchen & Bath Mart offers the latest designs and products to bring these rooms into the 21st century.

Robert Dhamer started Kitchen & Bath Mart in 1958 as a building supply company with products that included vinyl tile, furnaces and toilets. Today, the company offers full-service remodeling and has two fully equipped showrooms in Niles and Palatine where customers can see kitchen and bath vignettes and make their dreams a reality.

Next year the company will celebrate its 60-year anniversary with Dhamer’s sons, Dennis and Joseph, at the helm. “It’s unusual that a full service remodeling company has this longevity,” said Dennis Dhamer, president of the company.

With extensive knowledge of the industry, Kitchen & Bath Mart professionals will walk customers through the remodeling process, ensuring the appropriate selections are made and executed through installation.

Here’s a look at the latest trends and products for kitchens and baths, Dhamer said.

Today kitchens reign in open-concept floor plans as the heart of one massive living space, a design that allows homeowners to entertain with ease. Open concepts promote more interaction among family members and guests. The kitchen is no longer isolated, and dining rooms are often eliminated in favor of the open gathering space.

Forty years ago, white kitchens were popular, and they’re back now bigger and better than ever. Today we see more clean lines and less fuss with flat-panel cabinet doors showing transitional details. Many kitchens offer fewer upper wall cabinets to open up the space for a more airy, minimalistic look, and people like to display their dishware on open shelving.

Quartz is a popular selection for counter surfaces. It’s harder than granite, nonporous and doesn’t require sealing. Natural stone is still very common, although now behind quartz in popularity.

The kitchen island takes center stage in today’s kitchens with single-level islands leading the way because they offer more intimacy and more work space than the tiered style. To bring in a little pizzazz, people are doing perimeter cabinetry in one color and the island in another. They’re making it their own, being more adventurous and doing their own thing.

Stainless steel appliances are still the rage although some manufacturers are coming out with blues, reds and bright green enamel fronts. It might take some nerve to be at the forefront of this trend. Appliances are often integrated into the design to look like cabinets. Deep drawers are giving way to roll out trays, which make for better organization and accessibility.

With more choices than ever before, homeowners are expressing themselves and personalizing their homes in new ways. Tile is becoming artistic with all the color, patterns and creative designs out there. Subway tiles are giving up to more patterned and textured tiles that are unique. And there’s even wall tile that looks like fish scales or fabrics.

Sinks are trending toward one, very large, 30-inch sink, making it easier to clean oversized cookware. The look is more simplistic with clean lines.

When it comes to flooring, it’s all about texture — wood flooring or porcelain tile that looks like wood is on trend.

It’s all about light and bright in the kitchen with recessed lighting, under-cabinet and in-cabinet lighting making a strong appearance. Some cabinetry offers lighting that comes on when you open a door.

Kitchen desks and work stations may be on the way out with charging stations moving in as more people sit on the sofa or at the kitchen island working on their laptops or iPads.

What’s on the cutting edge? Blue — navy or deep cobalt — is coming on strong, and people are going with a color for their tile backsplash, range, hood and island.

Induction cooking, a newer technology, uses metal pans on a magnetic field, which heats the pan, not the cooking surface. This type of stovetop heats food quickly, and can be controlled very precisely. The advancement of this electric appliance in the near future will feature the ability to cook through your common counter surface.

In today’s homes, master baths get a lot of attention. People want the spalike feeling with lots of luxury and are often opting out of a tub and going for a large custom shower with all the bells and whistles. Accessible showers allow homeowners to age-in-place comfortably, and with no step into a tub, they can shuffle right in with their walkers. Some people opt for an open air shower with no doors. During consultation, this idea is often discussed in-depth given our chilly seasonal months.

When stepping out of the shower or tub, would you like to step on a warm or cold floor? Heated floors are high on the needs and wants list of people in the know. Flooring can be cold, and it makes a world of difference in this Midwestern climate to be comfortable with a warm and dry floor. Given its affordability and zero maintenance, most will include this feature in their project, which is practical for most surfaces and rooms including kitchens, baths, basements and laundry/mud rooms. Kitchen & Bath Mart offers heated floors, and customers say they love it.

The Dhamer brothers invites you to visit their Niles or Palatine showrooms, to be educated on all aspects of full-service remodeling.

• Niles: 7755 Milwaukee Ave., (847) 967-8500

• Palatine: 116 S. Northwest Hwy., (847) 991-1550

For more information, visit www.kbmart.net.