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(More customer reviews)Did you ever wonder how your kitchen became what it is today? No matter what style or period it is, this book will help you to understand your kitchen better. It may leave you delighted with what you have or imagining how it could be improved. It may also leave you thrilled with the character of an old kitchen and willing to put up with its impracticality in order to maintain the integrity of your house. Everybody has a relationship of one sort or another with a kitchen. For most of us, it's intimate and occurs multiple times on a daily basis. In this book, Nancy Hiller will introduce you to your kitchen's past and its development with well-written, intelligent prose and excellent illustrations. This is a book to read, to share and to keep.
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Loaded with labor and time-saving conveniences, the Hoosier cabinet wasamong the earliest design innovations of the modern American kitchen. This culinaryworkstation allowed owners to maintain an efficient and clutter-free kitchen bycentralizing utensils, cookware, tools, and ingredients all the while providing aspace in which to prepare the meals of the day. Bloomington-based cabinetmaker NancyR. Hiller draws on her years of specialty cabinet making and thorough knowledge ofinterior design to deliver an entertaining, beautiful, and informative history ofthe Hoosier cabinet -- revealing its influence on the development of thecontemporary American home. Illustrated with original manufacturers' advertisementsand sales literature -- some of which is previously unpublished -- as well as colorand black-and-white photos, this long-overdue book on an icon of the early20th-century kitchen will be an invaluable resource to cabinetmakers, antiquesenthusiasts, and homeowners planning a period-inspired kitchen.
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