By Fine Homebuilding
magazine
Meeting a wide variety of
requirements to improve a kitchen's beauty and utility through
remodeling
Kitchen remodeling is one of the most
expensive and intensive remodeling projects you can undertake in any
house. The kitchen remodeling process involves important design decisions about
cabinets, countertops, lighting, appliances, layout, and finish
treatments. In Renovating a Kitchen, a collection of
articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine, professional
builders and designers take you through each phase of kitchen remodeling,
from design to building to installation.
Written by the pros who actually do the work, these articles will
help you to:
- design and build cabinets on site or from
factory-made components and install them correctly
- make plastic-laminate, solid-surface, and
concrete countertops
- select and install proper ventilation
- get appliances to fit into your design
- make minor improvements that have major
impact
Formerly The Best of Fine Homebuilding:
Kitchens, this newly revised edition features 30 percent new
content, including the latest tools and techniques and updated
photos and illustrations.
About the For Pros by Pros series
To get the best results when building or remodeling, you need advice
from the best professionals in the business. For Pros By Pros books
bring together the expert designers, builders, and kitchen remodeling pros
who have written for Fine Homebuilding magazine.
Introduction:
The most important fixture in my mom's
kitchen was never the stove, or the refrigerator, or even the sink.
It was a stool. Early in my life it was a metal stool, yellow and
chrome, with fold-out steps. Then later it was a wooden stool that I
screwed together out of two-by-fours with a big maple cutting board
for a seat. That stool was where my mother sat to drink her instant
coffee, smoke her cigarettes, and write her grocery lists. It's
where guests perched to acclimate themselves to our home. And it's
where I sat after dinner to avoid doing my homework.
If my mother were remodeling her kitchen today, I know she would
start with the stool. But kitchens are highly personal spaces, and
other people would start with the restaurant range they've always
wanted or the farmhouse sink. Eventually, though, everybody gets
around to the functional heart of the kitchen: cabinets and
countertops. Whatever else a kitchen might be -- sanctuary,
gathering place, status symbol -- it is first and foremost a
culinary workshop where food is stored and prepared. Try doing that
without cabinets and counters.
In this book, which is a collection of articles originally published
in Fine Homebuilding magazine, you'll find practical advice
about building, choosing, and installing the essential elements of a
kitchen. Well, most of them anyway; there's nothing here about
stools.
--Kevin Ireton, editor-in-chief, Fine Homebuilding
Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: CABINETS
Kitchen Cabinets from Components
Hybrid Cabinet Construction
Installing Kitchen Cabinets
Building Kitchen Cabinets on Site
Faux Fridge Front
Installing Kitchen Cabinets
Simple Frameless Cabinets Built on Site
Part 2: COUNTERTOPS
Making a Solid-Surface Countertop
Making Concrete Countertops
Making Plastic-Laminate Countertops
Counter Act
Tiling a Kitchen Counter
Tiling over a Laminate Counter
Part 3: PLANNING A KITCHEN REMODEL
An Inside Look at Kitchen Cabinets
Choosing Kitchen Countertops
Ten Ways to Improve Your Kitchen
Getting Appliances to Fit
Credits
Index
Soft-cover, 8-1/2 x 11 in., 160 pages,
with color photos and drawings Published 2003
ISBN 978-1-56158-540-3
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