The New Home Kit [With The New Home Kit Workbook]

by Elizabeth Wilhide

Take the frustration out of decorating and put the fun back in! If you've ever bought a sofa only to find it does not fit through the living room door, agonized over matching fabric swatches and paint... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609608053
• ISBN13: 9780609608050
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 7.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Packed with useful info, but expensive

The New Home Kit is a combination of a "manual" and a "workbook". The manual, about 180 pages long, is full of useful information and practical design tips. It is written in an easy-to-read style, and is organized into a section with general design info and a section with room-by-room suggestions. It has lots of full color pictures with design ideas (although sometimes I have to wonder whether people actually *live* in some of the spaces presented.)The workbook, unfortunately, is fairly useless. It contains a set of "sample pouches" (basically clear plastic pouches), a binder to store your thoughts in and some graph paper for drawing out maps of rooms. Altogether, something you could put together for a couple bucks at an office supply store.All told, paying.. for the book might be a bit expensive, but if you want a good, concise design reference, it is the best I've found. Just throw out the workbook when you get it!