New Kitchen Idea Book

by: Joanne Kellar Bouknight

Topics include: grain butcher block, downdraft vents, undercabinet lighting, undercabinet lights, frameless cabinets, flush overlay, overlay doors, wood countertops, solid surfacing, fixed shelves, recessed downlights, eased edges, concrete countertop, tile backsplash, face frame, floating floor, range hood, contemporary kitchen, adjustable shelves, strip flooring, base cabinets, wall ovens, grout lines, task lighting, panel products

CLICK HERE for more information and price

Kitchen design ideas to suit your style and budget With more than 350 color photographs from today's leading designers and architects, this book will help you create a kitchen for any style and budget. It's all here: new appliance technology and cabinetry, fixtures and faucets, doors and counter materials, sinks, pulls, built-ins, and bookcases. By using New Kitchen Idea Book, you can create the kitchen of your dreams.

The kitchen is the true heart of the home, and homeowners are spending a lot of time and money to make their old kitchens less utilitarian and more creative, a place where people can congregate as well as cook and enjoy good food. This book helps readers figure out what they really want and how to get it, whether its a contemporary, brushed-stainless workroom worthy of an upscale restaurant; a rustic, farmhouse-style great room with wood flooring and a couch; or an elegant, streamlined space for a small city apartment. For every style, for every budget, it's all here: new appliance technology and cabinetry, fixtures and faucets, doors and counter materials, sinks, pulls, built-ins, and bookcases. By using Taunton's New Kitchen Idea Book, homeowners can create the kitchen of their dreams - regardless of style or budget.

First Sentence: "Considering how much time is spent in the kitchen, shouldn't it be the most gorgeous room in the house, with the most sumptuous materials, finishes, and fixtures?"

Kitchen design ideas to suit your style and budget When my mother-in-law, Doris Azzarrone, was a girl in Flushing, Queens, her father Louis built a house to her mother's specifications. Tess was adamant: Two kitchens were better than one. A formal kitchen was built on the main living level open to the dining room, while a canning kitchen was built on the ground floor off the herb garden. This was the down-and-dirty kitchen, with a big range, a refrigerator, tile countertops and backsplashes, and a white-painted concrete floor with a drain in the middle. Tess also used the downstairs kitchen for messy foods such as roasts, fish, and long-cooking sauces. On Sunday afternoons the clinking of pot lids from downstairs would indicate the arrival of future son-in-law O'Neil Bouknight, taking a peek at dinner. Tess approved of Neil because he, too, came from rural families -- his mother from Italy and his father from South Carolina -- and because he loved home cooking, unlike her four city-born daughters (Doris included), who turned up their noses at their mother's delicious home-spun cooking, now venerated as cucina rustica. "You don't know what's good," Tess would say. How wonderful it would be to have a waterproof, stainproof space like that canning kitchen -- one that you could just hose down after cooking. But many of us don't work at home all day the way Tess did, sewing, keeping house, and cooking. When we do make meals, we want to be surrounded by family or friends. And we multitask-work on the computer, do bills, grade papers, help with homework. Our ideal kitchen must be not only functional like that canning kitchen, but beautiful as well, like the upstairs kitchen. It is possible to achieve that blend of beauty and utility, as you'll see in many of the kitchens in this book. You will find kitchens above your price range but well within the range of your imagination. Design basics kick off the book, with subsequent chapters moving through each of the major elements of kitchens: cabinets, shelves and pantries, countertops and sinks, cooking and cooling appliances, and lighting. It's easy to spend days, weeks, or months, choosing surfaces -- your kitchen's fashionable side -- but also spend time choosing the things that will make your kitchen work. You love that slender gooseneck faucet, but are you willing to have another hole cut in the countertop (and more to clean around) for a separate sprayer? And what about hyperpractical issues, such as switchplates? If fixture types are switched separately, for instance -- advisable for flexible lighting -- you may end up with a formidable row of switches. This book will help you navigate the proper balance of form and function with its hundreds of photos supplemented by nitty-gritty information collected in drawings and sidebars. Another word of advice: Be watchful of the latest thing. Any new, hot material will have new, not-so-hot providers and installers. Do research, follow up recommendations, and don't be swayed only by the bottom line. Take fashion for what it is-fleeting. Choose what works for you, whether it's an appliance or a finish. Your choice of an uncommon countertop material may turn up in next year's "hot new trends" kitchen magazine. Durability is important, but you can replace a less-durable countertop three times over for the price of a countertop that's as tough as nails. Keep in mind that most home lenders suggest limiting a kitchen renovation to 15 percent of the home's value. On the other hand, it's your kitchen, and you may be working in it for a lifetime. Ideally, you've hired a contractor you trust. If so, hover lightly. Many contractors would love their clients to travel to Tahiti during construction. Make sure that you and your contractor agree about who is responsible for what. Understand that undergoing a kitchen renovation can be an emotional roller coaster, when every choice is fraught with what-ifs, every hitch seems like a calamity, and every meal is fast food. But your kitchen will be finished. When it's finished, stop second-guessing your decisions. Live with your new kitchen before declaring that the color of your granite countertops is an utter disaster. In a week or two, chances are you'll love it.

TOC: Kitchen Design: From Looks to Layout Set the Style Fitting the Kitchen into the House Configuring the Kitchen Cabinetry: The Kitchen Workhorse Cabinet Anatomy Doors and Drawers Finishing Cabinet Tops and Bottoms Materials and Finishes Cabinet Accessories Open Shelves and Pantries Shelves Pantries Countertops and Sinks Countertops and Backsplashes The Kitchen Sink From Ranges to Refrigerators Locating Cooking Appliances Range Options Oven Options Cooktop Options Ventilation Refrigerators Floors, Walls, and Ceilings Choosing a Floor Walls and Ceilings A Well-Lit Kitchen Natural Light Supplemental Light

Reviews:

A very good resource to show your designer: We bought this when we started thinking about a new kitchen and dining addition. It really was a big help to narrow down our choices. THere's nothing worse than feeling as if you know what you want but you can't explain it or you haven't seen a picture of it anywhere. This book has many photos of lots of different types of kitchens, not just one style or size. It isn't arranged kitchen by kitchen, and there aren't any floor plans. PHotos are shown part by part, cabinets, sinks, pantries, etc, so its handy to see all the sinks together. We have not started work on the kitchen yet but I can't wait!!