Kitchen Design Idea Book

This completely revised edition of the consummate resource for kitchen redesign features more than 350 ideas with 350 photos for a facelift or full-throttle redo of a range of kitchen styles and sizes.

The Kitchen Design Idea Book is a Kitchen Design Portfolio of 50 different unique custom kitchen designs. This book contains floor plans and three dimensional perspective drawings of each kitchen. It is to be used as a resource and guide to help you design your new kitchen. To use this book, simply thumb through and mark all the plans and perspective elements you like and want in your kitchen. Take these drawings to your kitchen designer, architect, or interior designer and have them modified to fit your specific space and needs. Or we can do it for you. It's that simple. If you find kitchen plans or perspectives you would like larger scale (1/2" = 1"-0") 22"x 17" size copies are available (plans will include dimensions). You can purchase them for any of the kitchens shown by following the instructions at the back of this book. You can also purchase Kitchen Interior Design Drawings (KIDD) consisting of dimensioned Floor Plan, dimensioned Interior Elevations, and 3D Perspective Drawings for any of the 50 kitchens shown. All KIDD sets are drawn at 1/2" = 1"-0" scale, and the drawing sheet size is 22" x 17". To see an example of a Kitchen Interior Design Drawings set go to www.KitchenDesignCo.com/ then go to the bottom of the page. Under Kitchen Design Drawings click on Kitchen Interior Design Drawings to see a complete KIDD set.

Presents nearly 500 photographs of kitchen interiors, along with advice in planning a kitchen.

Over 300 color photographs of kitchens including award-winning and fancy product ideas for manufacturers of cabinetry, countertops, windows, appliances, and floors. Contemporary, country, classic European, early American, and Art Deco kitchens and special needs for elderly and handicapped users are all identified. Designed for the do-it-yourselfer or as a bank of illustrations to share with a designer or contractor.

A comprehensive, full-color handbook, packed with hundreds of photographs that showcase the latest in beautiful, welcoming, and efficient kitchen design. 150 Best New Kitchen Ideas offers an in-depth look at exemplary new kitchen designs from today’s most renowned architects and designers. Packed with 500 pages of gorgeous full-color photographs, it features the most attractive, functional, and cost-effective kitchen designs from around the world. Here are hundreds of ideas for lighting, floor, wall, and window treatments to create kitchens that are attractive, inviting, and highly functional, as well as a wealth of notions for cabinetry, countertops, sinks, and more. Covering a diversity of current trends, 150 Best New Kitchen Ideas is an indispensable design and decorating resource filled with inspirational ideas for the homeowner, designer, interior decorator, and architect.

The long-awaited home décor bible by the beloved design blogger “Thank you,” wrote a reader to Design*Sponge creator Grace Bonney, “for teaching me that houses don’t have to be frumpy and formal. They don’t have to be matchy-matchy or rigidly modern.” They can just be comfy and unique and reflect who you are, no matter how small your budget or space. That reader is one of the 75,000 unique daily visitors to Design*Sponge, who make it the most popular design site on the web. The site receives 250,000 pageviews every day and has 150,000 RSS subscribers and 280,000 followers on Twitter. Design*Sponge fans have been yearning for the ultimate design manual from their guru, Grace, and she has finally delivered with this definitive guide, which includes: • Home tours of 70 real-life interiors featuring artists and designers • Fifty DIY projects, with detailed instructions for personalizing your space • Step-by-step tutorials on everything from stripping and painting furniture to hanging wallpaper and doing your own upholstery • Fifty Before & After makeovers submitted by readers of Design*Sponge—real people with limited time and realistic budgets • Essential tips on modern flower arranging, with 20 arrangements With over 700 color photos and illustrations and projects that are customizable, relatable, and affordable, this is the democratizing design book everyone has been waiting for.