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 Joan Kohn's It's Your Bed and Bath: Hundreds of Beautiful Design Ideas
 Joan Kohn's It's Your Kitchen: Over 100 Inspirational Kitchens
Joan Kohn's It's Your Bed and Bath: Hundreds of Beautiful Design Ideas
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My Favorite Room
OVERVIEW
Because bedrooms and bathrooms are our most private and personal rooms, it is essential that they provide us with an atmosphere of comfort and repose. In the companion book to Joan Kohn's It's Your Kitchen, Joan, host of Home & Garden Television's Bed and Bath Design, offers another comprehensive guide for creating beautiful rooms that meet our aesthetic needs while taking into account practical considerations such as budget, lifestyle, and the existing structure of our homes. Moving step by step through the entire design process, each chapter addresses a different aspect of planning and design. Joan helps you find the right design team, create a floor plan, and express your personal style, while offering a multitude of other ideas and tips.
The book is divided into two parts. Part one—“Design Essentials”—helps readers understand the basic elements of bed and bath design, assess their existing rooms, make the most of their budget, gather inspiration, articulate their tastes, and assemble and work with a design team. In part two—“The Five Building Blocks of Bed and Bath Design”—Joan addresses the important issues of function, raw space, floor plan, style, and personal touch. By approaching the creative process from conception to completion, the book teaches readers how to achieve their design goals with clarity and self-confidence.
Richly illustrated with 240 full-color photographs (view slide show) of an incredibly beautiful and diverse range of bedrooms and bathrooms from top designers and architects, Joan Kohn's It's Your Bed and Bath is an indispensable guide to create the bedrooms and bathrooms of your dreams.
REVIEWS
Joan's keen eye and direct experience (covering more homes than we could know in several lifetimes) is distilled into a plethora of informative ideas and tips. Her easy-to-read nuggets of design wisdom are essential to good design decisions.
— FU-TUN CHENG, CHENG DESIGN, AUTHOR OF CONCRETE COUNTERTOPS
Here, in one book, is a whole library of well-selected images. Something for every taste and circumstance!
— STANLEY ABERCROMBIE, FORMER EDITOR AND CHIEF OF INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE, AUTHOR OF A CENTURY OF INTERIOR DESIGN 1900-2000
It's Your Bed and Bath is a magnificent follow-up to Joan Kohn's It's Your Kitchen. The new book is equally inspiring and elegantly produced. The breathtaking selection of rooms offers something special for everyone regardless of their personal taste or style.
— MIKE STROHL, DESIGN PUBLICIST AND AUTHOR OF HOMESTYLING: CONTRASTS IN DESIGN, AND NEW AMERICAN STYLE
...oodles of ideas to beautify bedrooms and baths...lots of practical tips for achieving the dream of a rewarding personal...space!
— BARBARA MAYER, AUTHOR OF THE COMPLETE BOOK OF HOME DECORATING, AND IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE
MY FAVORITE ROOM
My favorite room is any room that holds the life-spirit of the people who live in it. These rooms have a heartbeat that we sense the moment we enter them, even if no one is there. Somehow our bedrooms and baths—these mute and inanimate constructions—reflect our lives. They have the power to make us relive the past, and to help us prepare for the future.
It seems that as we design, we ignite a spark of life in the walls and all the objects with which we choose to surround ourselves. From the blankets in which we wrap our newborn babies and the basins in which we bathe them, to the rooms we design so many years later to welcome our grandchildren for weekend visits, there is life in everything. And design is a beautiful way to capture and hold onto all of it.
— ADAPTED FROM JOAN KOHN'S IT'S YOUR BED AND BATH: HUNDREDS OF BEAUTIFUL DESIGN IDEAS
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Joan Kohn's It's Your
Kitchen: Over 100 Inspirational Kitchens
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BOOK EXCERPTS:
On
Beauty
Designing
A Beautiful Kitchen On A Budget
Designing
Fabulous Kitchens In Small Spaces: Ten Tips for Having
It All
OVERVIEW
Every successful kitchen design is a unique reflection
of personal taste, lifestyle, budget, and dreams. In
this comprehensive and beautiful guide, Joan gives readers
the insight, inspiration, and tools to make their own
best choices in the crowded design marketplace.
Part one, “Design
Essentials,” helps readers think like design professionals,
addressing all the key issues of beauty and practicality,
including the elements of design, how to assess an existing
kitchen, and making design dreams fit one's life and
budget. Part two, “The Five Building Blocks of
Kitchen Design,” covers function, raw space, floor
plans, style, and personal touch.
Richly illustrated with
230 full-color photographs (view
slide show) of more than 100 gorgeous kitchens,
this book provides all the information necessary to
enable readers to create functional and beautiful kitchens.
REVIEWS
...almost too tantalizing.
— PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
If you are planning [a new kitchen], you need this book!
— BESTSELLERSWORLD.COM
The book is a triumph!
— CLODAGH, DESIGNER, AUTHOR OF TOTAL DESIGN
...people will recognize it for its soulful insight...it's a masterpiece.
— MICK DE GIULIO, DE GIULIO KITCHEN DESIGN, INC.
It's like having 50 magazines in one book—only better!
— CUSTOMER REVIEW, AMAZON.COM
From contemporary to exotic, you're bound to find an adventurous or simple design to fit your taste and budget.
— BOOKREVIEWCAFE.COM
Kohn leads you through every step of the process, from dream to reality... It's a veritable wedding planner of home design.
— SCRIPPS HOWARDS NEWS SERVICE
Joan writes about kitchen makeovers the way smart psychologists write about life makeovers.
— TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
ON
BEAUTY
When I was seven years old, my parents took me to see
Niagara Falls. It was a side-trip on our way from Great
Lakes Naval Base to the Boston Navy Yard, where my father
had just been re-stationed. Night was falling as we
pulled into town in our black Buick Roadmaster (the
“4-hole model,” as my father still proudly
points out). My mother was at the wheel, my father sat
next to her, and my doll, “Dear Yetta,”
and I had the huge back seat all to ourselves. As we
drove slowly down the main street of town, we could
see the Falls in the distance, illuminated by a rainbow
of colored light. Suddenly, I realized that there were
tears running down my cheeks, even though I didn't feel
at all sad. “Why am I crying?,” I asked
my mother. Even now, I can remember her eyes smiling
at me in the rear-view mirror. “You're crying,”
she said, “because it's beautiful.”
That was my first lesson
in the power of beauty. Years later, I learned another
lesson: Good design beautifies our lives. In a sense,
all of my travels in the world of design—my television
shows, lectures, personal design projects, and even
this book—are extensions of these two simple lessons.
A beautiful environment
can inspire us and uplift our spirits. Good design encourages
and empowers us. It exhilarates us. It enhances our
daily experience. And with it, we provide comfort and
refreshment, and make our families feel safe and secure.
Incorporating into our lives the elements of good design,
such as balance, harmony and restraint, we remind ourselves
of the values by which we wish to live. Nowhere is this
truer than in the kitchen. A well-designed kitchen draws
the family together and sets the tone for a lovely and
productive day. In recent decades, kitchens have undergone
a dramatic metamorphosis. Once merely utilitarian spaces
shut off behind closed doors, today the kitchen has
become the most important room of the house. Functionally
and aesthetically, it is the engine and epicenter of
their home. Our kitchen doors are not just open—often
they are gone altogether, along with the walls. Today's
kitchen often flows freely into the dining rooms, home
offices, libraries and playrooms in which we live our
hectic, over-scheduled and wonderful lives. And let's
face it... nothing can enhance the look, feel and function
of your home as quickly and dramatically as a new kitchen.
— ADAPTED FROM JOAN
KOHN'S IT'S YOUR KITCHEN: OVER 100 INSPIRATIONAL KITCHENS
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