Your Kitchen (All About Your House)

Description for BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS YOUR KITCHEN (ALL ABOUT YOUR HOUSE) edited by Gerald M Knox:

Imagine, for a moment, being invited on a very specially guided tour of your house by the editors of Better Homes and Gardens. The tour might begin in the kitche, where we'd acquaint you with every aspect of this all-important room. Kitchen designers would hlep you analyze how well it works for your family. Decorators would advise how you could create a new look. Architects would show how to plan minor or major improvements on paper. Appliance specialists would inform you about your equipment options. Home management experts would explain how to hire and work with a contractor, how to finance major improvements, even how to best keep your kitchen clean, safe and trouble-free.

Leaf through the pages of YOUR KITCHEN and you'll find information, ideas, and guidance about all of these topics. YOUR KITCHEN began when we perceived a need for a comprehensive, up-to-date book that would draw upon the experience Better Homes and Gardens has gained in more than 60 years of serving homemakers. Our goal was to truly tell all about your kitchen.

Of course, the photos you'll see ---more than 100 of them---don't necessarily show your kitchen as it is today, and you may even doubt whether it could ever look as good or function as well as the examples we've selected. Delve deeper into the book, though, and you may begin thinking differently about your kitchen. Maybe all it needs is a fresh styling motif, or a face-lifting of wall, counter, floor, and cabinet surfaces. Or perhaps you've been thinking about what a complete remodeling might be like. Photographs, floor plans, charts, and cutaway views help you explore all the alternatives---and tell how you can achieve them. We've even included three pages of templates you can use to the the kitchen of your dreams out of your dreams and onto paper.

YOUR KITCHEN, more than three years in the making, is one book in a series we call ALL ABOUT YOUR HOUSE. This major, interdepartmental effort draws upon the talents and expertise of more than 30 Better Home and Gardens editors, designers, writers, and contributors, and explores every important element of a modern-day house. In other words, our tour of home doesn't stop with your kitchen.