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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Room Additions: Designing & Building *Garage Conversions *Attic Add-ons *Bath & Kitchen Expansions *Bump-out Additions (Black & Decker Complete Guide) Review

Black and Decker The Complete Guide to Room Additions: Designing and Building *Garage Conversions *Attic Add-ons *Bath and Kitchen Expansions *Bump-out Additions (Black and Decker Complete Guide)
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Expansion is one way to keep a home meeting your needs and dreams. "The Complete Guide to Room Additions" discusses the many ins and outs of do-it-yourself home improvement on the scale of adding rooms to one's home. Adding on to one's home is very much cheaper than buying a new home when one's old home fails to meet your needs. In a comprehensive guide, Black & Decker walk readers through the planning stages, converting old rooms, and all the details in the process. For anyone planning expansion of their home, they'd do well to consider "The Complete Guide to Room Additions".

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Building a major addition to your house can take over your life or drain your bank account if you aren't fully prepared with top-notch information. The Complete Guide to Room Additions is both an insurance policy for dealing with contractors and a planning guide that arms homeowners with vital information about the remodeling process. But it also is much more than that: it's a hardworking how-to manual filled with hundreds of photos that show you the hammer-and-nail details that go into these major projects. From garage conversions to kitchen bump-pout expansions, dormer additions and more, this book will be an indispensable tool for any project that adds new square footage to your home's footprint.

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Building a Wood-Fired Oven for Bread and Pizza, 13th Edition (The English Kitchen) Review

Building a Wood-Fired Oven for Bread and Pizza, 13th Edition (The English Kitchen)
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If you're interested in building a wood-fired oven for baking, this is a good supplement to Alan Scott's essential "The Bread Builders". Provides very interesting historical background, amusing anecdotes and a set of plans which are aimed a bit more squarely at the amateur builder than Alan's plans. I'm building an oven now using plans interpolated between the two. If you're going to tackle a project like this, get a good book on masonry techniques too, or better yet, a video. (Amazon, care to provide some suggestions?)

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Prospect Books' best seller is this handy instruction manual for the ultra-keen breadmaker and DIY enthusiast, showing how to build a substantial bread oven in the yard or garden. Together with detailed plans (which do not omit a single block or brick) and a step-by-step specification, the book doubles as an essay on English break baking in previous centuries, with special reference to the hardware, equipment and working methods entailed. There is plenty here to interest the reader who is not necessarily going to embark on the building project. The book was first published in 1997 and has had an annual printing since then. There are other books on the subject, but few give as much historical context. The history of bread is something that is almost entirely ignored in current literature, greatly to its disadvantage. This 13th edition boasts a new, compact format (roughly 7.5" x 5.5") and full-color plans. The book closes with a couple of recipes. It was never meant as a cookbook; there are plenty of alternatives, including the author's Baking Bread at Home (Phoenix). But the enthusiasm for good bread, and for baking it yourself, is still growing and is well served here.

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The Art of the Kitchen Garden Review

The Art of the Kitchen Garden
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I was apprehensive about buying this book because so many gardening books are mostly pictures with little really good info. Not so with this book. It's full of helpful ideas, great pictures and old-fashioned inspiration. I know I will keep this one handy for years, maybe decades to come.

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Complete Kitchens: Plan & Build Your Dream Kitchen (Better Homes & Gardens (Paperback)) Review

Complete Kitchens: Plan and Build Your Dream Kitchen (Better Homes and Gardens (Paperback))
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The tips in the book are both substantive and informative. The book covers all areas of remodeling from designing a floorplan to selecting and installing cabinets.
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This book has very few photos.
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A MUST HAVE for anyone remodeling or redecorating their kitchen and a good addition to the book collection of any decorating junkie.

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Readable, reliable information to plan, design, and build a dream kitchen—all in one package.
Guides homeowners through the process, regardless of how much hands-on work they plan to do.
Features a wide range of kitchen designs, sizes, and configurations to accommodate a variety of lifestyles.
Presents readers with dozens of aspects in kitchen design to help them thoroughly consider projects.
Must-have guide gives step-by-step instructions to install wiring, plumbing, cabinetry, surfaces.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Kitchen Makeovers (Do It Yourself) Review

Kitchen Makeovers (Do It Yourself)
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This is a collection of specific ideas for a kitchen "makeover". For each, some general steps or how-to's are provided. If you've done any repairs around a house, you'd find all but a few to be very very basic instructions. I'd hoped this was a comprehensive book with detail on how to remodel a kitchen from ceiling to floor. This is not that book. It's fine for what it is, but don't expect this to walk you through a complete renovation (or anything close to it).

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Kitchen Makeovers gives DIY-ers the inspiration and information they need to complete a wide range of affordable kitchen upgrade projects from start to finish, using tools and supplies available at home centers. The design options that accompany every project make it surprisingly easy to personalize results by selecting different finishes, fixtures, and other elements.

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The Painted Kitchen: Over 60 quick and easy ways to transform your kitchen cupboards Review

The Painted Kitchen: Over 60 quick and easy ways to transform your kitchen cupboards
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It wasn't what I was expecting but maybe what I want doesn't exist. With that explanation out of the way - I must say it's really one of the better kitchen cabinet idea books out there. It has great photos, a large quantity of ideas and is very informative about various products, equipment and necessary prepartion. It's chapters are broken down by color which makes it easy to skim through the book and find what you're interested in without having to read every chapter to learn what you need to know. The "bad" part is that the technique directions are sometimes not too specific or clear so it's best to just use the book for ideas and refer to a book on painting techniques for more explicit directions if you're very dependent on step by step directions. Other than that, I'd really recommend this book to anyone who is looking for cabinet update ideas without the expense of buying all new ones.

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In The Painted Kitchen, Henny Donovan demonstrates how with some paint and basic tools anyone can transform a drab, dated kitchen to the most welcoming room in the house. Add new doorknobs, maybe some gold leaf or colored wax for embellishment, and the heart of the home is once again stylish and a pleasure to use.

Organized by color -- naturals and off-whites, yellows, reds, blues, greens, black and gray -- and complete with comprehensive step-by-step instructions and photographs, The Painted Kitchen offers the principles of color, choosing color, and working with man-made finishes. Full of inspiration and eminently practical, this book shows how to:prepare old or damaged natural and manmade surfaces for paintingwork with laminates, raw and painted wood, melamine, and fiberboardchoose colors that work with the room's lightingco-ordinating colors to create ambiencechoose the right faux finish for your cupboards create the most popular faux effects: colorwashing, distressing, glazing, dragging, combing, stippling, sponging, rag-rolling, spattering, craquelure, crackle glazing, relief stenciling, textured combing, stamping, and decoupageuse luxurious embellishments: gold leaf, colored waxes, metallic paints, molding and polishingwork with exciting products: venetian plaster, texture paints, liming wax, graphite varnish.mix universal tints


More than 16 innovative projects, each with four variations, offer choices for everyone, including:blue-and-white Portuguese-style folk artvinegar-glaze fingerprintingbirch wood graining with faux ebony and ivory inlayterra cotta polished plaster with copper squaresliming over a marquetry-style woodwashvine-leaf stipple, gingham checks, duck-egg speckledistressed paintwork and hand-painted script.


An extensive list of North American sources rounds out this excellent how-to reference.
(200401)

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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Dream Kitchens (Black & Decker Complete Guide) Review

Black and Decker The Complete Guide to Dream Kitchens (Black and Decker Complete Guide)
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Our house is now about twenty-five years old and we've recently begun overhauling and replacing a lot of stuff. Painting is easy, and laying tile isn't too difficult to learn, but tackling bathrooms and kitchens is notoriously difficult. This volume in the "Black & Decker" series is pretty good, walking you through all the pats of the kitchen -- cabinets, countertops, fixtures, appliances, floors, lighting, etc -- identifying the options for each, and showing you how to calculate costs. And, for that matter, helping you decide which parts you can probably do yourself and which you really want to call on a professional for. (Personally, I'm not about to take on electrical or plumbing systems!) There are a huge number of detailed color photos, especially for key operations like leveling tile, floating a floor, and installing under-cabinet lighting (something my wife really wants). They'll also show you which specialized tools you really need to use. An excellent book in an above-average series.

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Luxury kitchens are the hottest trend in the home construction and remodeling business, even in relatively modest homes, where owners are compromising elsewhere in order to afford the best possible kitchen.Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Dream Kitchens shows homeowners what's hot and what's not, and gives practical information on how they can achievethe kitchens of their fantasies. Recent innovations in planning and room layout are covered in detail, and the merits of premium building materials and appliances are discussed and compared. Readers will also learn how to work with professional contractors to get the kitchen they want -- on budget and on time.
But this is a book not only for dreaming, but also for doing. An impressive chapter gives more than a dozen actual how-to projects for creating luxury kitchen features easily and with professional results. For example, ambitious readers will learn how to create a polished concrete countertop; how to measure, order and install granite surfaces; how to create custom cove lighting systems; how to install a deep-basin sink; how a self-venting fireplace can become part of a remodeled kitchen. Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Dream Kitchens will delight dreamers and doers alike.

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Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinets: Layout-Materials-Construction-Installation (A Fine Woodworking Book) Review

Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinets: Layout-Materials-Construction-Installation (A Fine Woodworking Book)
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I found Mr. Cary's book to be a worthwhile investment in time and money! He is very detailed oriented, without being redundant or boring, when describing each phase of building your cabinet. He provides you with step-by-step prodecures that are clear and easy to follow! He also provides helpful hints on how to avoid mistakes and what can be done when mistakes are made. This book is a must have for those who have two left thumbs like me!

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This text is designed to help anyone thinking about re-doing their kitchen or building a new one from scratch. It provides information to help you get started and help you do the right job.

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Debbie Travis' Painted House Kitchens and Baths: More than 50 Innovative Projects for an Exciting New Look at Any Budget Review

Debbie Travis' Painted House Kitchens and Baths: More than 50 Innovative Projects for an Exciting New Look at Any Budget
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I highly recommend this book. Directions are clear and concise. You have LOTS of choices of innovative projects that are adaptable for many different lifestyles. Good for young, young at heart AND older people who want something different in homes.

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Kitchens and bathrooms need not be the most expensive rooms in the house to decorate. Debbie Travis presents imaginative solutions for these vital rooms, whether you have a small budget that will cover only a quick facelift or you're starting from scratch.Returning with her trademark do-it-yourself Painted House techniques, Debbie Travis decorates these hardworking rooms using the affordable and ever-stylish power of paint, plust a host of mateials now available for home interiors, such as concrete, hot rolled steel, corrugated tin, tinted plastic, and more. Each makeover is accompanied by Debbie's helpful step-by-step instructions and stunning before and after shots. Discover how easily a kitchen or bathroom can be transformed with Debbie's magic touch.

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Plan Your Kitchen: hundreds of design combinations at-a-glance (At a Glance S.) Review

Plan Your Kitchen: hundreds of design combinations at-a-glance (At a Glance S.)
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I've been looking through books for the last year and a half because we're remodeling our kitchen this fall. This book falls in the bottom 20% of all the books I've poured through. By page 150 I found exactly one idea that I found interesting enough to flag.
The book is laid out with the idea that there are four types of kitchens: traditional, country, shaker and contemporary. They offer pictures of cabinets, sinks, etc. and indicate which category they fall into. I have found many, many examples of cabinet pulls and counter top choices, etc. that are repeated over and over again - perhaps a way to fill space in the book? I'm not sure. I do know that most, if not all, the useful information in this book could be found by picking up some current kitchen ideas magazines at your local discount store OR by picking up some information flyers at your local home improvement store (i.e. Lowe's, Home Depot).
Advantages: It is spiral bound and lays flat when opened. And, this book's sections are tabbed for easy access. Also, in the back there is a layout grid and design template (however, these are not rare in kitchen design books)

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Renovating your kitchen can be an exciting but overwhelming experience. From deciding cabinets and countertops to hardware and appliances, the options available to homeowners today can create an endless number of possibilities. Plan Your Kitchen takes the anxiety out of kitchen design by bringing together the most popular options into one handy guide that makes designing your ultimate kitchen easier.

Plan Your Kitchen features:


An easy flipbook format that uses the most popular flooring, walls, and cabinetry options to create hundreds of kitchen combinations


A wide variety of popular kitchen styles including country, traditional, Shaker, and contemporary


A gallery of appliances in different sizes, styles, and colors that will fit your lifestyle and needs



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Creating Your Dream Kitchen: How to Plan & Style the Perfect Kitchen Review

Creating Your Dream Kitchen: How to Plan and Style the Perfect Kitchen
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Lots of photos and good suggestions on design and things you should consider when planning a new kitchen. This is for upper end kitchens, trendy, not so much just a general remodel. Nice!

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Fantasizing about the perfect kitchen? Susan Breen, one of America's leading kitchen consultants and writers, shows how to make that dream come true.With brilliant photos, detailed floor plans, professional tips, and illuminating case studies, design expert Susan Breen reveals the art of creating the perfect kitchen. She covers it all, examining every style from contemporary to country traditional, and getting right down to the nitty-gritty facts on working with kitchen designers, architects, and contractors. With her help, readers will learn how to use their available space wisely, so the kitchen not only becomes a great place to do the cooking, but a warm and welcoming space for conversation with family and guests. Breen discusses the great new cabinetry and countertop materials; technological advances in appliances, plumbing, and lighting; storage; selecting the sink; and choosing freestanding furniture. The 12 case studies of real all-American kitchens feature their owners' personal stories, and capture all the thought processes that are crucial to making the right design decisions.A Selection of the Homestyle Book Club.Susan Breen has written more than 100 articles on home design, residential architecture, and kitchen and bath planning. She is author of Entertaining for Wimps, and her work has appeared in House Beautiful Kitchens/Baths, Better Homes & Gardens Remodeling Ideas, Good Housekeeping Do-It-Yourself, and many other magazines.

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Kitchens for the Rest of Us: From the Kitchen You Have to the Kitchen You Love Review

Kitchens for the Rest of Us: From the Kitchen You Have to the Kitchen You Love
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On the back cover of this book, it states, "Kitchens for the Rest of Us. If your tastes yearn for granite but your budget calls for laminate, there is still hope for your kitchen makeover dreams." The book, however, includes more kitchens with granite countertops than laminate.
According to the author, most of the kitchens in the book cost $30,000 to $50,000. That, to me, isn't exactly a "laminate" budget.
This is a nice book with beautiful kitchens. It isn't, however, any more helpful to me than all the other designer books and magazines that showcase custom kitchens.


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Remodeling a Kitchen (Build Like A Pro) Review

Remodeling a Kitchen (Build Like A Pro)
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I just read the two previous reviews, and felt compelled to write my own. I've had this book a few months and haven't yet redone the kitchen. I worked in construction for many years, but never did kitchen design, though I did do some installations. I re-did the kitchen in our previous home, but didn't change the layout too much.
I'd hate for people to bypass this book based on the prior bad review. If you could only have one book to guide you through your whole project, this one would be hard to beat. It walks you through the process step-by-step, and warns you of potential issues like "hidden systems" - heat, electrical, etc. which can save you loads of aggravation.
I don't have a problem with a significant part of the book being dedicated to design. If you gloss over the design step and move right into construction and end up with a kitchen that doesn't quite fit your cooking/life style, what have you got?? You can get a design at a store that sells cabinets, and guaranteed you'll get a design that fully utilizes their pre-built, one size fits most cabinets they're looking to sell. Maybe that works for you, but maybe not. I find the design part the most challenging. If you don't want to get into it, think about finding a kitchen designer. You may get lucky at IKEA or another big box store. Personally, I have to know I'm getting what works best for us before the money starts going out.
As for needing more information on construction, I don't see it. I think this book has most of what you need. If you didn't quite get something, like installing tile, then there are many places to do research. To me, it's easier to find a description on how to build a cabinet than it is to get a good design. I feel that this book both covers design and takes a thorough look at construction. I have a few books on design alone, and would suggest that approach if you're serious about doing it yourself.
I've always been happy with Taunton Press books. [...]


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Remodeling a kitchen is fun, practical, and one of the best return-on-investment, home-improvement projects out there. Taunton's proven Build Like a Pro series takes this popular remodeling project step by step from planning, through construction, down to the custom details. It's all in here--from design guidance to choices in materials.- Step-by-step projects and pro-level advice instill confidence in readers.- More than 325 color photographs illustrate the remodeling process from start to finish.- Hands-on information includes tips, tool lists, and advice on choosing materials and fixtures.

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Refacing Cabinets: Making an Old Kitchen New (Fine Homebuilding) Review

Refacing Cabinets: Making an Old Kitchen New (Fine Homebuilding)
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I found this to be a very clear explanation as well as a source reference for resurfacing cabinets yourself. Many photographs, charts, and diagrams accompany the text. The author convinced me that this is a home improvement project that I could tackle with a little help from my friends.I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to update their 60's or 70's kitchen. I plan to give it a try this summer.

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By refacing old cabinets, virtually anyone with basic skills can make a kitchen or any room in the house look stunning at a fraction of the cost of new. The secret is knowing how to refurbish old cabinets by applying high-quality wood laminate and new cabinet doors, door fronts, and/or trim. This book shows readers everything they need to know to achieve professional results. 130 color photos. 50 drawings.

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Ultimate Guide to Kitchens: Plan, Remodel, Build Review

Ultimate Guide to Kitchens: Plan, Remodel, Build
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I had already seen this book in person at the book store and had looked through it to find a book that contained a little bit about everything when it came to remodeling a kitchen. If you're looking for a book that hits on everything but doesn't go into too much detail about each project, you'll like this book. It has lots of colorful pictures and ideas on how to do things along with 'how-tos' on cermaic tile to hardwood flooring to picking out lights.

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Ultimate Guide to Kitchens guides the reader through the process of designing and doing the work involved with remodeling a kitchen or building a new one from scratch. Homeowners will find inspirational information on layout and design, but most of the book covers step-by-step instruction in installing sinks, faucets, countertops, appliances, and floor and wall finishes. General construction projects, such as building walls, adding windows, and completing electrical and plumbing work are also covered. Homeowners can use the book to do the entire project or pick the parts that interest them.

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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Decks: Updated 4th Edition, Includes the Newest Products & Fasteners, Add an Outdoor Kitchen (Black & Decker Complete Guide) Review

Black and Decker The Complete Guide to Decks: Updated 4th Edition, Includes the Newest Products and Fasteners, Add an Outdoor Kitchen (Black and Decker Complete Guide)
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First off, I'm not a builder. I'm a guy with an office job who sits behind a desk all day long. I think the last thing I built was a birdhouse in third grade and it didn't even last long enough to hang it on a tree. So, I knew building a deck was a BIG project. But, this book made it SO easy! The photos are incredible. They don't use sketches and drawings, they have actual photos. The steps are easy to follow and the instructions are clear from the tools needed to the types of screws to use. If you're looking for a how-to guide on decks, this is the best one!

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America's best-selling deck book—better than ever

In this revised and expanded fourth edition of the all-time bestselling book on decks, homeowners learn, in unsurpassed detail, the process of designing, building, and maintaining a deck. Not only are all the classic deck-building techniques included, but the book also shows how to incorporate the latest contemporary options, such as how to work with eco-friendly wood and reclaimed plastic. Hiring a contractor to build a deck easily adds up to tens of thousands of dollars, but with the help of this book, readers can design and build the deck they want without the high price.

For homeowners who already have a deck but are in the market to update or maintain that deck, The Complete Guide to Decks features important projects for repairs, upgrades, and major additions, such as adding full electrical service, lighting, and kitchen appliances. From design to construction, and tools, material, and planning, this is the only book consumers need to build the deck of their dreams.


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Kelly's Kitchen Sync: Insider kitchen design and remodeling tips from an award-winning kitchen expert Review

Kelly's Kitchen Sync: Insider kitchen design and remodeling tips from an award-winning kitchen expert
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I am an interior designer who works with a contractor in a design/build partnership. We plan to give this book to every potential client. This book decodes the language and process behind a kitchen remodel. It's timely and even overdue in this era of extreme customization. And that it is well organized and even humorous makes it a delight to read. There are so many books that inspire beautiful kitchen design, but lack the nuts and bolts. This book doesn't do what the others do. You won't find amazing dream kitchen photos in this book. Consider it a field guide, a don't-leave-home-without-it book. I will no doubt refer to it on every job. Thank you Kelly for your contribution towards making good kitchen design happen!

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"80% OF CONSUMERS WANT TO REDO THEIR KITCHENS." - Kitchen and Bath Design News
And most of them will want to pull their hair out at some point in the process! Appliances or cabinets don't fit or open right . . . the sink is so tight that the faucet gets a wedgie . . . the floor or walls aren't straight or plumb . . . the range hood is a head-banger . . .your contractor forgot to ask you about . . . everything!
From DIY go-getters to reluctant remodelers to smart consumers who just want to stay on top of their projects, everyone who dabbles in kitchen design and remodeling needs some "I wish I'd thought of that" help and support.
Packed with truly insider kitchen design secrets and remodeling tips shared in a humorous, realistic way, Kelly's Kitchen Sync has answers to questions you didn't know you should ask. Don't let your project get bogged down by your own horror story! Let Kelly help you get it done right, on time and on budget.
You'll learn how to:
'Separate expectations from the reality of what will work for you and your kitchen
'Figure out where to go, who does what, when to get outside help
'Ensure your design matches the space, appliances, and how you use your kitchen
'Choose materials that will work best, and when and where to splurge
'Keep costs down by making good choices and avoiding costly mistakes
Kelly Morisseau has kitchen design in her blood. Her blog, Kitchen Sync, is a top-ten kitchen design blog on the internet. A second-generation designer, both her parents were kitchen designers long before anyone understood the term. Kelly's award-winning experience includes more than 25 years as a professional kitchen designer, both on her own and for leading design/build firms. She is a Certified Master Kitchen and Bath Designer (CMKBD) and a Certified Interior Designer (CID) in California.

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