The New Home Kit: A Three-Step Guide to the Perfect Room

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 chips, or simply wondered how to achieve a fresh look for your home without spending a fortune, The New Home Kit is for you. This innovative package contains a manual, a workbook, graph paper, furniture templates, and plastic storage pockets, all designed to help you organize your ideas and plan layouts and color schemes for each room. * The fully illustrated manual offers practical knowledge, inspiration, and decorator's tips, arranged room by room. * The workbook provides plenty of space to note specific details, sources of materials, prices, and measurements. * Graph paper and templates allow you to make sketch plans of every area in your home, plan room layouts, and experiment with different furniture arrangements. * Plastic pockets are useful for storing fabric swatches, paint chips, and tear sheets from magazines.

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

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!