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Title: Great Kitchens: Design Ideas from America's Top Chefs by Ellen Whitaker, Colleen Mahoney, Wendy A. Jordan ISBN: 1-56158-534-3 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely the best book ever for planning a kitchen.
Comment: I bought this book thinking that it would be just a sort of celebrity tour of the home kitchens of some well-known chefs, a great idea in itself, but more style than substance. Boy was I wrong. There's more meat to this book than in Julia Child's beef bourguignon. My wife and I have been planning to completely overhaul our kitchen for years now, and we've gone through dozens of kitchen books without finding much really useful design information. Well here it is. On our first sitting with Great Kitchens, we identified at least five great kitchen design ideas we will definitely incorporate into our new kitchen. I'm sure there are more, but I just can't seem to get the book out of my wife's hands.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Kitchen Planning Book
Comment: This is hands-down the best kitchen planning and design book I have seen. I learned so many things from it about picking materials, lighting, fixtures, sinks, layouts, etc. that my remodeled kitchen will be better because of it. I paged through endless books and magazines filled with lovely photos, but that lacked information or substance. This book stands out because it discusses pros and cons, budget tradeoffs made, the good decisions and "if-I-had-it-to-do-over-again" mistakes. These are kitchens put together by demanding professionals who won't tolerate (bad)or lightweight materials that are hard to clean. I learned many lessons about flooring, countertops, backsplashes and so on that were never touched upon by other books. Sure there are appliances to drool over, but there are also chefs who ran out of money during the remodel, or bought factory seconds tile to save money. Real-life issues and lessons.
Rating: 4
Summary: I'm swimming upstream on this one
Comment: To be perfectly honest with you, I was a little disappointed in the book. I expected to see kitchens that I could only dream of. Instead I saw utilitarian efforts by America's top chefs. Imagine looking into Mario Andretti's personal garage. Would it look like a dream shop, or more like a GM assembly plant? One kitchen in this book had tall, bare cinderblock walls, that were not even finished, right in the center of the kitchen. How do you prevent dust from accumulating in bare cinderblock, and inadvertently arriving in some of the food? Their were some kitchens that were nicer than that, but nothing that inspired me.
Personally, I am interested in a kitchen that is as beautiful as it is practical. I found, the book, Kitchen's That Work, A Practical Guide to Creating a Great Kitchen, a much more informative, and inspiring book, no matter what your budget.
If you want to throw your pinky in the air, and poo paa your neighbors, then leave Great Kitchens on your coffee table. Their is plenty of names to drop in there. But if you want to create a great-dream kitchen, then get Kitchen's that Work. From soup to nuts, that is the book to have for the practical to the particular.
In all fairness, I am not sorry I bought Great Kitchens, as I am sure I can glean information from it. If you would like to hear about some of the considerations the top chefs like to see in their kitchens, then by all means buy the book. I guess I was expecting something awe inspiring, and that is not what this book is. I gave it four stars, because I never met a man, I couldn't learn something from.
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Title: Kitchens That Work: The Practical Guide to Creating a Great Kitchen by Martin Edic, Richard Edic ISBN: 1561583197 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Kitchen Idea Book (Idea Book) by Joanne Kellar Bouknight ISBN: 1561583936 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Dream Kitchens: Recipes and Ideas for Modern Kitchens by N, A, Helen Thompson, Wanda Jankowski ISBN: 1571458492 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
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Title: Joan Kohn's It's Your Kitchen: Over 100 Inspirational Kitchens by Joan Kohn ISBN: 0821228005 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Kitchen Planner: Hundreds of Great Ideas for Your New Kitchen by Suzanne Ardley ISBN: 0811825175 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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