New Kitchens
Kitchen Renovations Made Easy
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More than 300 big, full-color photographs of stunning kitchens provide an encyclopedic resource of design ideas for homeowners, designers, and contractors. The kitchen designs presented here include award winning designs and fancy product showcases designed for many of the nation’s leading manufacturers of cabinetry, countertops, windows, appliances, and floors. Many styles of kitchens are covered, from contemporary and country, to classic European looks, early American, retro, and art deco designs. Special needs are addressed for elderly and handicapped users, as well as design issues faced by families with young children. There are designs for people who entertain frequently, and for those who need the kitchen to serve every purpose–from home office to dining room, to laundry room. The book is designed as a reference library for the do-it-yourselfer, or as a bank of illustrations to share with a designer or contractor when seeking the right look for your old or new home. A reference guide at the back of the book lists manufacturers and designers ready and eager to help you on your way to creating the perfect heart for your home.
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Big kitchen, little kitchen, Kitchen Design Guide by Meredith Books, has your decorating ideas for any size of space. From stylish trends in cabinetry and storage, to smart choices in lighting and appliances, this essential guide will help you create a kitchen that’s stylish, comfortable and convenient for the whole family. Kitchen Design Guide also has over 200 photos that will inspire your decorating venture.
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Small kitchens, particularly those in urban areas, present unique challenges for homeowners and designers alike. Here, in almost 300 gorgeous color images, you can tour some of the most spectacular small kitchens to be found. It will help you visualize solutions for your own kitchen, no matter what its size, whether you use it for cooking, dining, or entertaining. Experts offer advice on how the right choices of cabinetry, countertops, appliances, lighting, and storage can enhance the usefulness of even the most compact space. Learn how professional designers tackle the problems of a small urban kitchen: how they circumnavigate storage problems with ingenious space-saving arrangements, using every inch of space available, and then some. Explore how creative homeowners designed their own intimate kitchens to address special needs, in a basement condo, a suburban neighborhood, or even a small, rural cottage. A comprehensive resource section helps you find the award-winning architects and designers featured. This is an invaluable guide for professional kitchen designers and do-it-yourself homeowners everywhere.
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Creating the perfect kitchen is like cooking a special meal: you have to pore through the recipes, consider the ingredients, and imagine how everything will finally come together. And that’s exactly what House Beautiful’s new guide allows home decorators to do. First, the “Design” section helps you identify your style, decide on an effective layout, figure out infrastructure (lighting, electrics, fittings, and appliances) and establish storage needs. Then, in the “Decorate” section, sumptuous photos provide decorating inspiration for color schemes, window dressings, finishing touches, and more. Best of all, there’s no need to follow one plan from start to finish: pick and choose the elements that seem most practical and appealing to you from the many different options. The result: a kitchen that’s made to order!Price: $24.95
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The new importance of kitchens today as a place to spend leisure is reflected in its architecture and design: first of all it means that creative solutions need to be found to smoothly integrate the kitchen with the dining and living areas, and at the same time its appearance needs to aesthetically match the style of ones home. Kitchens today can be trendy, puristic or cosy, but they must be always functional. Cook! Best of Kitchen Design presents 40 projects that show the different ways architects and designers are striving for intelligent and sometimes also surprising concepts.
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Redo or new? Get it right the first Time
Author Chris Gleason designs and builds kitchens for a living. In Kitchen Makeovers For Any Budget he offers his advice and how-to knowledge to help you make the correct decisions about whether to re-face or paint your present kitchen cabinets, add new appliances and cabinets, redo the workflow, move walls, etc.
Kitchen Makeovers For Any Budget includes four complete remodeling projects; each one deals with a particular aspect of demolition, design and/or accessorizing. The companion DVD focuses on the design, workflow and accessories available to maximize your space and provide convenient storage solutions.
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This book is the first guide to kitchen design from a cooking perspective. As the only book for the homeowner who wants a kitchen that is beautiful and that cooks beautifully, it takes the most complex room in the home and addresses its function as well as its form. With forty years of experience in the design and cooking fields, Don Silvers has discovered that most people have no idea of the pleasure that can be added to cooking in the right kitchen. This book will add new joy to cooking for every reader, even those who have previously disliked cooking.
Price: $29.95
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A classic-style kitchen is perfectly functional, with a warm and inviting look that can transform it into the heart of your home. But without the know-how, renovating your kitchen can be a confusing and difficult process. Now, the experts at Woman’s Day SIPS bring you Classic Kitchen Style, the essential guide for anyone trying to achieve a timeless, elegant look completely hassle free. Not only will Classic Kitchen Style help solve all of your design dilemmas, it also serves as a comprehensive handbook for those who want to infuse their kitchen with a lasting flair all of its own. With so much valuable, easy-to-follow advice from the experts, it’s sure to be the essential reference for anyone looking to make their ideal kitchen a reality.
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Over the course of the past century, the kitchen, more than any other room in the modern dwelling, has been the focus of intensive aesthetic and technological innovation. Historically, European and American kitchens were often drab, poorly ventilated, and hidden from view in a basement or annex. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, however, the kitchen became a central concern of modernism and a testing ground for new materials and technologies. Since then, the room has come to articulate and at times actively challenge societal relationships to food, consumerism, the domestic role of women, and even international politics. Counter Space examines the twentieth-century transformation of the kitchen through the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, featuring a wide variety of design objects, architectural plans, posters, archival photographs and artworks–ranging from the iconic Frankfurt Kitchen, mass-produced for German public housing estates in the aftermath of World War I, to an electric tea kettle, heat-resistant glass wares, and colorful plastics, such as Tupperware and Japanese artificial food. With an introductory essay by Juliet Kinchin, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, this volume is a lively exploration of the kitchen as a barometer of changing technology, aesthetics, and ideologies.
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This is the ultimate guide to designing your perfect kitchen – featuring nearly 500 inspirational full-colour photos. With the fast-pace of modern life, and the resurgence of cooking at home, the kitchen has once again become the centre of attention. “Design Ideas for Kitchens” is a lavishly illustrated volume that features hundreds of examples of professionally designed kitchens that are sure to provide inspiration and ideas for all. Also included in this volume are: tips on how to plan, start, and finish your project; advice on how to identify and treat common problems; expert guidance on those all important finishing touches; and, much more!
Price: $19.95