Modern Kitchen Workbook: A Design Guide for Planning a Modern Kitchen

by Wanda Jankowski

Guidebook, idea book, and workbook all in one, this hard-working kitchen design book provides inspiration and advice to keep readers on track, on task, and on budget. With a focus on modern kitchen design, this book provides clever ways to organize kitchen design projects large and small. Five complete kitchen designs are profiled with before and after photos, layouts, and design plans. The user-friendly format includes worksheets, checklists, charts, and data recording sheets. Readers can keep track of ideas by placing magazine tear sheets, color chips, and fixture information in the provided storage space. A logical, detailed approach offers realistic solutions and a complete treatment of the subject with design and decorating information and practical advice for navigating the many choices.

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2001

About the author

Wanda Jankowski is well known to many in the lighting and interior design, and architecture fields. She has been editor-in-chief of Architectural Lighting magazine since 1989. From 1980 to 1985 she was editor-in-chief of Lighting Design + Application magazine and the Journal of IES, both publications of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA). Prior to that she held various editorial positions with the Society and served as staff coordinator for the International Illumination Design Awards Program.

Ms. Jankowski holds a BA from St. Joseph's College and an MA from St. John's University. She has published several books with PBC International including Kitchens and Baths (1993), Designing With Light: Residential Interiors (1991) and The Best of Lighting Design (1987). Ms. Jankowski has authored articles for magazines and newspapers on a variety of subjects, including light, and she is a member of the Authors Guild.


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