101 Kitchens: Stylish Room Solutions (101 Rooms) (ISBN 1592580076)

Book Description:
Instead of leafing through a plethora of magazines for Kitchen decorating ideas, now you can find all the inspiration and useful advice you'll ever need in one book - 101 Kitchens, containing 101 themes for your kitchen, each illustrated with a full-page photograph of a fully decorated room. In fact, with the titles in this series, you can find ideas for every room in the house! The first four titles feature Bedrooms, Living Rooms, Kitchens and Bathrooms are guaranteed to help you find the look that you want. The 101 kitchens are grouped by style: Contemporary - Classic - Country - Retro - Budget - Shaker Each room is illustrated with a full-color photograph and accompanied by invaluable information on the specific features of the room, including color, lighting, accessories and flooring. There is a directory of useful suppliers at the back of the book you'll have everything you need to recreate the look for yourself. So whether you're planning a complete transformation or simply looking for quick facelift ideas, the 101 series will help you create the home of your dreams.

nifty little idea book:
This is a small book, slightly wider than pocket-sized, with a single full-page photo for each kitchen and a writeup by a British magazine editor on the facing page. I found it refreshing as it presents views from across the pond, quite different from the sprawling natural wood kitchens typically shown in American magazines. Most of these kitchens are quite compact and do not have islands, and very few can take advantage of full picture windows or features such as exposed ceiling rafters. So if you're working with a large kitchen space (say from an addition), you might not have much use for this book. What these kitchens offer is creativity in the selection and coordination of color, texture, materials, and pattern, in many different styles (contemporary, Shaker, etc), all narrated expertly by Ms. Savill. It's a neat book for browsing, and you can get a miniature lesson on decoration on most any page.

You get what you pay for...:
After buying an old victorian we were blessed with a pink and magenta kitchen. Donned with the task of redecorating this anathema, I bought this book to help with color choices and design. The small size did not lend itself well to decorating ideas (squinting for ideas is never a good idea - my husband worries I'll mistake the oven for cabinets and we'll end up with black enamel cabinets and a cherry wood stained oven if that's possible), but it was helpful, and I do believe that you get what you pay for. This book is less expensive and therefore, less bulky...so I give it 3 stars.

101 Kitchens : Stylish Room Solutions (101 Rooms):
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