The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History Review

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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 Illustrated with original manufacturers' advertisementsand sales literature -- some of which is previously unpublished -- as well as colorand black-and-white photos, this long-overdue book on an icon of the early20th-century kitchen will be an invaluable resource to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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Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinets: Layout-Materials-Construction-Installation (A Fine Woodworking Book) Review

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

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(More customer reviews)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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The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker: Shop Drawings and Professional Methods for Designing and Constructing Every Kind of Kitchen and Built-In Cabinet Review

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(More customer reviews)I have years of experience in residential carpentry and furnituremaking, and I've installed dozens of kitchens, but I had never actually made a set of kitchen cabinets. We are renovating our house, and replacing our cheap cabinets is one of the items on the list. I spent hours at my local Barnes and Noble and Borders stores looking for a comprehensive book that focuses exclusively on kitchen cabinetmaking, and couldn't find one out of the dozens of books on cabinemaking that thoroughly covered both the cabinet design and production processes. Then I took a chance and ordered The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker, and found exactly what I was looking for.
Lang writes well and, just as important, is a good teacher and explainer. The book is well organized, and the abundant illustrations, both photographs and drawings, are clear and detailed. Measured drawings abound. He describes both general types of cabinet, frameless and face-framed, and lays out efficient production processes for both, indicating where potential problems lurk and the consequences of inaccuracies at crucial points.
This is head and shoulders the best book I have seen on the subject. If you are even considering building your own kitchen cabinets, or starting a small cabinet shop, this book should be your first purchase. It will be the best money you spend on the project.


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Demonstrating how woodworkers can approach the complex job of designing and making built-in cabinets for kitchens, family rooms, and home offices, this technical handbook provides meticulously detailed shop drawings, instructions, and hundreds of professional tips for saving time, materials, unnecessary aggravation, and money. Bob Lang covers building traditional face-frame cabinets as well as constructing contemporary frameless Euro-style cabinets. Woodworkers will learn how to measure rooms and design fitting cabinetry that considers both function and aesthetics, how to develop working shop drawings and cutting lists, and how to work with materials as varied as solid wood and plastic laminate. Technical instructions for cutting and joining the basic box, as well as for fitting it to drawer stacks, sinks, corners, appliances, and islands, are also included, as are detailed steps for sanding, finishing, and installing each piece.

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