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    Kitchen Planner ("Better Homes & Gardens" S.)
  2. The Queen of Clean: The Royal Guide to Spot and Stain Removal
    The Queen of Clean: The Royal Guide to Spot and Stain Removal
  3. 1001 Do-it-yourself Tips
    1001 Do-it-yourself Tips
  4. Tools
    Tools
  5. Do It Yourself!: Simple Solutions for How to Do Just About Everything from A-Z
    Do It Yourself!: Simple Solutions for How to Do Just About Everything from A-Z
  6. Kitchen Remodeling for Dummies (For Dummies)
    Kitchen Remodeling for Dummies (For Dummies)
  7. Audel Electrician's Pocket Manual
    Audel Electrician's Pocket Manual
  8. Simplified Aircraft Design for Homebuilders
    Simplified Aircraft Design for Homebuilders
  9. Housekeeping Secrets My Mother Never Taught ME
    Housekeeping Secrets My Mother Never Taught ME
  10. Maximizing Minimal Space (Black & Decker Home Improvement Library)
    Maximizing Minimal Space (Black & Decker Home Improvement Library)
  11. Ty's Tricks
    Ty's Tricks
  12. Building with Logs
    Building with Logs
  13. The Owner-Built Log House
    The Owner-Built Log House
  14. The Flooring Handbook: The Complete Guide to Choosing and Installing Floors
    The Flooring Handbook: The Complete Guide to Choosing and Installing Floors
  15. The Complete Stenciling Handbook
    The Complete Stenciling Handbook
  16. Country Living the Perfect Kitchen (Country Living)
    Country Living the Perfect Kitchen (Country Living)
  17. Light the Country Fire: The Homeowner's Guide to a Neglected Skill
    Light the Country Fire: The Homeowner's Guide to a Neglected Skill
  18. Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, and Survival Skills: A Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills
    Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, and Survival Skills: A Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills
  19. Terence Conran's DIY by Design
    Terence Conran's DIY by Design
  20. Tools (Chic Simple S.)
    Tools (Chic Simple S.)
  21. "Changing Rooms" Complete Home Makeover (Changing Rooms)
    "Changing Rooms" Complete Home Makeover (Changing Rooms)
  22. Handy Andy's Home Work: A Beginner's Guide to Decorating, DIY and Maintenance
    Handy Andy's Home Work: A Beginner's Guide to Decorating, DIY and Maintenance
  23. Step-by-step Tiling Projects
    Step-by-step Tiling Projects
  24. Mr. Clumsy's Guide to DIY (Mr.Men Grown Up Guides)
    Mr. Clumsy's Guide to DIY (Mr.Men Grown Up Guides)
  25. The Handbook of Knots
    The Handbook of Knots
The Kitchen Planner: Hundreds of Great Ideas for Your New Kitchen
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Cute workbook
  • Beautiful but lacking Practical Substance
  • kitchen structure
  • Fun idea book
 The Kitchen Planner: Hundreds of Great Ideas for Your New Kitchen
Suzanne Ardley
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0811825175

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Designing or remodeling a kitchen should be a practical venture, but also a fun one--a concept that also applies to Suzanne Ardley's The Kitchen Planner book. This interactive workbook will stimulate both creative and workable ideas about designing your new kitchen.

Ardley begins by advising readers to create a kitchen based on individual needs. What is the layout of the kitchen you're working with: One- or two-walled galley, L-shaped, U-shaped, or an island? Is the kitchen used by a single person, a couple, or a family? By someone with special accessibility needs? Ardley discusses the benefits and limitations of each floor plan for each type of person.

She also explains the logistics of laying out your kitchen properly, taking into account its multiple functions as a food-preparation and cooking area, serving and eating area, food- and dish-storage area, and--as most party hosts know--a social area. Use the graph paper and the stickers at the back of the book to arrange and rearrange your layout, using Ardley's tips as a guide. For example, she suggests that the sink (the most-used part of a kitchen) be easily accessible from the food preparation areas, and that the dishwasher be located as close to the sink as possible so dishes can be easily rinsed off then stacked in the dishwasher.

Besides planning a layout, you'll also need to decide on the look you'd like for your kitchen. A flipbook section of The Kitchen Planner lets you experiment with different styles (traditional or modern), color schemes, and floor coverings, while color photographs throughout should also spur your imagination.

It's obvious that Ardley has put much thought into the most efficient and practical layouts and use of space for kitchens of every type--even offering advice on kitchen equipment, surfaces, and finishes. She suggests several quick-fix options that may solve a kitchen problem without your having to resort to an entire remodel. The result is an eminently usable planner. --Kris Law

Book Description

The Kitchen Planner takes the confusion out of kitchen redesign and puts the fun back in. Filled with advice and suggestions for everything from the quick touch-up to a complete makeover, this innovative guide covers it all. The uniquely designed section of tri-split pages allows for effortless mixing and matching of wall colors, cabinetry, and floors. The reusable stickers and layout grid make it simple to experiment with a variety of floor plans. And the informational charts—written specifically for singles, couples, families, and people with special needs—can help anyone design the perfect kitchen for their particular lifestyle. Packed with color photographs, resourceful text, and countless expert suggestions, The Kitchen Planner is a practical, convenient, and necessary tool for any kitchen remodeling project.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Cute workbook.......2002-04-27

This is a hands-on design book. Great for those that are starting to design or redesign their kitchens(daydreamers too). Included is a split page design that allows you to mix and match wall, floors, and cabinets . It also comes with reusable stickers and layout girds in the front and back of the book.It is jam packed with information to help you solve all of your design dilemmas. A

3 out of 5 stars Beautiful but lacking Practical Substance.......2001-07-27

I was seduced by the lovely photographs, fun peel-and-stick arrangements, and cute mix-and-match cut outs. But when I really tried to use the book to plan a practical workspace that will serve family and guests for years, I found advice and guidelines skimpy and vague. I wanted more solid information, including specific attributes of a good work triangle, and important space allowances for walkways, cabinets and counters. I also wanted more attention given to relative costs of materials.

Yet, it was very enjoyable to poor over the ideas, styles and photographs.

4 out of 5 stars kitchen structure.......2001-07-02

an overall good resource for planning your first kitchen helps put together some good ideas in an orderly way using interesting tactics to let your eye explore the color swatches

4 out of 5 stars Fun idea book.......2001-03-14

The Kitchen Planner gives you a lot of ideas for your kitchen. What is practical, what would be best for your life style. It also has a fun way to see what your style is. It kind of reminds me of a children's book where the pages are split and you can come up with different combinations for the head, body, and feet of an animal. The same idea in this book for the flooring; cabinets; & sink style, wall color & wall style. This book is a fun idea book.
Kitchen Planner (Better Homes & Gardens)
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    		Kitchen Planner (Better Homes & Gardens)
    Better Homes and Gardens
    Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    5. The Kitchen Planner: Hundreds of Great Ideas for Your New Kitchen

    ASIN: 0696212501

    Book Description

    All-in-one resource makes it easier to dream, plan, and budget the latest kitchen improvements.

    Ideas to improve work flow, maximize countertop space, optimize lighting, and add storage options.

    Kitchen Garden Planner (Country Home)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Potager Planning!
    		 Kitchen Garden Planner (Country Home)
    Darrell Trout
    Manufacturer: Country Home
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 0696209233

    Book Description

    Gardeners at every level of expertise will eagerly add Kitchen Garden Planner to their libraries. As hard working as it is beautiful, this book intricately profiles, through spectacular photography and illustrations, the designs and plantings of kitchen gardens in rural, urban, small-town settings nationwide.

    13 projects inspire and help every gardener to re-create a lovely kitchen garden.

    Approaches to kitchen gardens vary—from simple containers to raised garden beds.

    Designs span the growing conditions across America.

    More than 400 color photographs capture garden overviews, plus interesting vignettes.

    Each project features a color illustration of the design, with a key that clearly identifies plants.

    Includes thumbnail sketches of plants, and close-up identification photographs.

    Covers basics of kitchen gardens—from soil preparation to succession planting.

    Mail-order sources for all plants.

    Author Darrell Trout wrote the well-received Country Home® Country Garden Planner and serves as president of the Long Island Horticultural Society and regional director of Garden Writers Association of America.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Potager Planning!.......2000-03-24

    The concept of a potager, or kitchen garden appeals to me greatly. I very much want my garden to be ornamental as well as edible. Somewhat similar to the idea of "edible landscaping", potagers often intermingle vegetables, herbs, and flowers, sometimes planting them in geometric shapes. Sort of a more formal, yet informal garden. Colorful. Interesting. Not your garden-variety garden. I've been looking for online articles and for books on potagers, which seem to be popular in England, but hard to find in the United States. I haven't been able to find much information on them.

    Country Home's Kitchen Garden Planner by Darrell Trout is just what I was looking for. It takes the reader through mini-tours of thirteen different American potagers, with text, photographs, and a plan (illustrated map) for each garden. A few of the individual plant varieties are somewhat unusual, but they described and keyed to commercial sources. The one defect that I found was that a couple of the sources seem to be omitted from the index, or perhaps there was a typo, a minor flaw in an otherwise exciting book. The last chapter talks about basic gardening in general. I only wish there was more on potagers in the Midwest where I live. Then again, where I live, there is wheat as far as the eye can see and not much else.

    I really like this book. I wanted ideas for designing a potager and this book has given me lots of ideas. It is strong on the visuals, which I wanted, but also has informative text. Plus, I can just copy or modify one of the garden designs in the book to suit my needs, personal preferences, and growing zone until my own style evolves.

    The Kitchen Design Planner
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      		The Kitchen Design Planner
      Fay Sweet
      Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Spiral-bound

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      ASIN: 1841722693

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      For centuries hidden behind the scenes, the kitchen is now the hub of home life. In design terms, this means that today's kitchen must not only be flexible and practical; it's got to look great, too. In addition to being the place for storing, preparing, and cooking food, the modern kitchen may need to accommodate activities as diverse as washing and ironing, family meals, children's homework or tea parties, romantic suppers, and even full-scale dinner parties. Most of this would have been unthinkable three or four generations ago, when kitchens were kept firmly out of sight. They were always the engine rooms of the house, but not places where anyone who did not have to there would be found. The kitchen is also the place where, traditionally, new design ideas and new technology have entered the home, particularly in the years after World War II, when public taste swung away from the dark and troubled past toward the optimistic, light-filled future. New surfacing materials such as Formica, mechanized assembly lines, and streamlined designs combined to produce the hugely desirable built-in-kitchen. As our lives have grown more informal, the kitchen has become integrated into the living space of the home. In many new houses and apartments, open-plan designs merge kitchen, dining, and living room spaces. Kitchen deisgners, architects, and product manufactuers have responded by creating designs and appliances that are better than ever. The choice of furniture syles and finishes is incrediby varied; flooring and counters are vailable in a whole specturm of natural and man-made materials; lighting is more elegant and practical than ever; and appliances are made in every shape, size, and colour imaginable. I love kitchens. I never miss a chance to visit a kitchen showroom or have a look at kitchens in private homes or in restaurants. So I'm confident in saying that there has never been a more exciting time to create a new kitchen.
      Hands On Kitchen and Bathroom Planner
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        		Hands On Kitchen and Bathroom Planner
        Belinda Albo
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        1. Home Quick Planner: Reusable, Peel & Stick Furniture & Architectural Symbols

        ASIN: 1552856763

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        Full color peel and stick vinyl templates and grid.

        Create your own dream kitchen and bathroom using full color peel-and-stick vinyl templates. If you are re-modeling or starting from scratch, this practical planner will give you step-by-step instructions for designing your custom kitchen and bathroom floor plan.

        The Hands On Kitchen and Bathroom Planner allows you to explore endless layout possibilities with more than 300 templates you can use again and again. This book is perfect for those renovating their existing homes and for those acquiring newer homes who are able to pre-plan before moving.

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        'Living Home' Embraces Environmental Elements.(Ray Kappe of Ray Kappe Architects and Planners designed green home): An article from: Kitchen & Bath Design News
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          		'Living Home' Embraces Environmental Elements.(Ray Kappe of Ray Kappe Architects and Planners designed green home): An article from: Kitchen & Bath Design News
          Anita Shaw
          Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Digital
          ASIN: B000RW3O7M
          Release Date: 2007-06-11

          Book Description

          This digital document is an article from Kitchen & Bath Design News, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1144 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

          Citation Details
          Title: 'Living Home' Embraces Environmental Elements.(Ray Kappe of Ray Kappe Architects and Planners designed green home)
          Author: Anita Shaw
          Publication: Kitchen & Bath Design News (Magazine/Journal)
          Date: May 1, 2007
          Publisher: Thomson Gale
          Volume: 25 Issue: 5 Page: 68

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          Grandma's Kitchen: 2007-2008 Daily Planner (Chef Express)
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            		Grandma's Kitchen: 2007-2008 Daily Planner (Chef Express)
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            Kitchen Designer (Stanley Project Planners)
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                The Complete Kitchen, Bathroom and Bedroom Planner
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                  		The Complete Kitchen, Bathroom and Bedroom Planner
                  Laurie Williamson
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