Are Kitchen Renovation Books Worth The Money?

| Saturday, November 5, 2011
By Owen Jones


Millions of households renovate their kitchen every year, although kitchen renovation is a very vague term. It can mean anything from renovating your cooker with new parts to completely stripping your kitchen out and starting afresh. If you decide to just change a couple of of the older items in your kitchen, then that is quite uncomplicated and you might not require much help.

However, if you are planning to refurbish the whole kitchen then you may need some assistance in the way of ideas and recommendations. There are various places you can turn to in order to uncover new ideas.

You could employ an interior designer, an architect or a builder in order to give you ideas or make recommendations. These professionals can also make drawings or plans so that you know exactly what you are going to get.

However, if you want to do the planning yourself, you can do that as well. If you want to go down that road, you need to keep your eyes open for ideas all the time. Every time you visit a friend, watch a film or read a periodical, you should be collecting ideas. You could put all these concepts into a folder or write them into a book.

Or, instead of making your own folder or book, you could buy a kitchen renovation book or two. These kitchen renovation or remodelling books are normally referred to as 'How To..." guides. Whatever they are called the question is whether they are value for money or not.

A decent kitchen renovation book should suggest a few designs within a variety of different styles. This will permit you to select a style or a theme and then narrow it down to a specific design that you like. Clearly, you do not have to stick rigidly to the designs in the book.

There are different types of kitchen renovation books. Some of these kitchen renovation books assume a broad spectrum approach. They show you the main trends in kitchen design such as European, American or Far Eastern. Then they narrow it down to European rustic, American south-western or Far Eastern Chinese or whatever. Other types of kitchen renovation books will focus on one specific style.

So if you are not sure which style of kitchen renovation you want, you should first of all get a broad spectrum book and determine from there which style you like best. This is a considerable step forward, because then you can get a book that concentrates on designs of that particular style.

You can learn a lot by approaching kitchen renovation in this manner. You will be enabled to hone the style of kitchen that you desire, so that either you can tell a builder how to create the kitchen of your dreams for you with the help of your books or you can charge an architect or interior designer to make a drawing that you can use as a part of your contract with a builder.

There are many ways to skin a cat, so the saying goes and it is true of interior design too. If you use kitchen renovation books shrewdly, they can save you a lot of professional consultancy fees and you will end up with the kitchen of your dreams.




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