Design Ideas for Bathrooms by Susan Boyle Hillstrom, Mark Samu (Photographer)

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Design Ideas for Bathrooms presents a range of ideas for creating an up-to-date bathroom for pampering or simple practicality. Readers will find many excellent examples of master baths, family baths, powder rooms, and accessible designs. There is complete coverage of the latest fixtures including desirable spa amenities such as jetted tubs and showers, steam devices and saunas, rain bars, and sprayers, plus a full representation of finishing materials from high-end looks in stone to affordable plastic laminates. Other targeted topics include vanities and storage, lighting, ventilation, and laundry areas. Additional helpful information explains how to make design decisions and product choices based on lifestyle needs. Lots of "Smart Tips" and "Sidebars" provide information at a glance.

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Hillstrom (former editor in chief, House Beautiful Special Interest Publications) presents a huge amount of practical information on redesigning bathrooms and kitchens, the two rooms that can be the most costly to remodel. Bathrooms covers universal design considerations and the basics of master bath and half-bath layout, then focuses on bath and shower options that include tubs and fittings. Extensive information on surfaces like tile, stone, glass, concrete, synthetics, wood, and metal points to the advantages and disadvantages of each. Kitchens offers a similar wealth of information, on cabinets, surfaces, and major appliances such as cooktops, stoves, and refrigerators. A few projects, like refinishing a hardwood floor, suggest that other sources should be consulted before beginning, since so few instructions are given. Kitchens is similar to Susan Preen's Creating Your Dream Kitchen (see review, p. 62), with more photographs and choices provided here. Both books would make excellent purchases for public libraries. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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