Motion Minded Kitchen Pa

by Sam Clark and Sam Clark

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395349303
• ISBN13: 9780395349304
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best kitchen design book by far

This book helped us redesign out kitchen to be much more efficient and a joy to work in. Definitely the best home design book I've seen.

Wonderful reference for kitchen design

I used this book in 1989 to totally remodel our kitchen in a 1916 townhouse. I'm a serious cook, and I count myself so lucky to have stumbled upon Sam Clark's marvelous ideas. His cabinet designs (especially using ALL drawers below counter height), the Scandinavian style dish drainer, the kitchen sill knife rack, etc. are wonderful. I'd urge anyone remodeling or building a new kitchen to buy a used copy of this out-of-print book. The photos are in black and white but the advice and ideas are worth their weight in gold. I addition, buy his current book, Building Like A Pro: Remodeling a Kitchen, 2003. These are all described on his web site.

best kitchen design book

I used this book to design the kitchen of my owner-designed and built house fifteen years ago. I love my kitchen! Unlike other books about designing kitchens--which are by far the hardest rooms in any house to design--it gets down to the very basic challenges of a kitchen, instead of how to make a kitchen your visitors will ooh and aah over. Clark uses the motion-study techniques pioneered by the Gilbreths in the first half of this century to analyse efficiency in the kitchen. If you are the kind of person who wants to know how to make a kitchen that really works well, as opposed to looks pretty, this is your book. If you want a lot of gorgeous pictures of very expensive kitchens, find another book. This is for people with little money and a lot of practicality.

Excellent advice on layout, design, functional approach

This is an excellent guide to planning and designing a functional kitchen, most useful for those who spend a lot of time cooking. The photos, decorations, and cabinetry displayed are outdated, but the focus is on kitchen design for practical uses. We relied heavily on the author's principles in bulding a kitchen (in 1992) for our 1906 home, and we've been quite happy. Sections on building cabinets & drawers are interesting but not as well done as some more recent publications.