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Better Homes and Gardens Kitchen Idea File
All-new book offers insight into materials and techniques and features updated photography and design.Full of inspiring case studies and a multitude of tips and sidebars that tackle all aspects of kitchen design, planning and decorating.Real-world advice and solutions to help build or redo a kitchen, regardless of the scope or scale of the project.
191 pages, Paperback
First published August 15, 2003
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2,127 books292 followersBetter Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.
Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.
Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.
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June 23, 2010
Since I am buying a house and remodeling the kitchen, I thought it'd be fun to buy this book and look at the pictures and see what sorts of ideas I came up with. It was sort of helpful. Too many of the pictures were for very modern-looking kitchens, which just aren't my style. They're too sparse and cold and alien for me to like. However, there were other styles of kitchens in here, so there were enough for me to look at and get ideas from.
This book, like pretty much every other one in the genre, didn't include any sort of floor plan or say how much it cost to either build the kitchen from scratch or do the remodel on the kitchen (both are included in this book). It also didn't include any before pictures when the kitchen was a remodel. There was one kitchen in this book that was a remodel that was so hideous that I thought surely the "before" look HAD to have been better! ;-)
But, all of that aside, if you're looking for pictures of a variety of different kitchens to get ideas, then this is the book for you.
This book, like pretty much every other one in the genre, didn't include any sort of floor plan or say how much it cost to either build the kitchen from scratch or do the remodel on the kitchen (both are included in this book). It also didn't include any before pictures when the kitchen was a remodel. There was one kitchen in this book that was a remodel that was so hideous that I thought surely the "before" look HAD to have been better! ;-)
But, all of that aside, if you're looking for pictures of a variety of different kitchens to get ideas, then this is the book for you.
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