May 262013
The Design Cookbook: Recipes for a Stylish Home
This book is specially designed in Amazon’s fixed-layout KF8 format with region magnification. Double-tap on an area of text to zoom and read.
Through stunning photographs and step-by-step instructions, designer and lifestyle expert Kelly Edwards brings a myriad of looks, tastes, and approaches to chic home design in this guidebook. From the kitchen and the bedroom to the home office and the out-of-doors, Kelly illustrates how to achieve the best color, texture, proportion, and overa
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Full of great idea but bad in cloud and not for e-reader only,
The Design cookbook had gorgeous pictures and a lot of great ideas. In the cloud the print is so small as to be unreadable, and it won’t come down to an e-reader at all. I don’t have a tablet but my friend who does says it’s really for a Fire and not the e-reader.
The design ideas are doable, the author seems to understand not everyone has unlimited rooms or budget and that rooms not only need to be beautiful but functional. The wall treatments and pictures were really good, as someone who really is lost when facing a blank wall I now have some cool ideas.
My favorite chapter might be the bathroom chapter, so many cool bathrooms. I want Jim to make me the wooden mirror frame with the little jutting trough for putting the toothbrushes and such, great idea for a small bathroom lacking storage!
This book is full of tips, ideas, pictures, inspirations..BUT do be aware it’s hard to read in the cloud because of fine print and doesn’t work on an e-reader at all.
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|May be ok in print but terrible e-book,
There are lots of nice pictures and you can read section heads but the content (body text) is totally unreadable on a 9 inch tablet running Kindle for Android. It locks into landscape, full screen, no zoom. All I can figure out is it’s a bunch of landscape pictures, not an e-book.
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|DESIGNS FOR ALL TASTES,
I am so inspired by many ideas for each room in the house. This book has answers for the frustrated person who is at a loss when it comes to sparking up a corner, making a room inviting, and using unusual objects to add interest. Thanks to all the examples, I will want to pour over this book over and over again. I won`t be afraid to experiment with this guide.
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