Better Homes and Gardens: Home Offices: Your Guide to Planning and Furnishing (Better Homes & Gardens) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Better Homes and Gardens (Author), John Riha (Author), Ben Allen (Editor)

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These two similar books give the amateur an understanding of what to consider when designing a home office. Both discuss evaluating needs, choosing location, layout, furnishings, equipment, and decorating, and both illustrate options for a variety of types of home?even including craft and sewing areas. Both are well written and illustrated and encourage an accessible, casual style of decorating. Although neither is as extensive as Neal Zimmerman's Home Office Design (LJ 9/15/06), both are recommended, Allen's being the first choice because it offers manufacturers and other resources for equipment and advising on practical matters such as sound proofing..
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Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Meredith Books; 1st edition (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0696207281
• ISBN-13: 978-0696207280
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,683,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Attractive & Useful, May 13, 2000

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This review is from: Better Homes and Gardens: Home Offices: Your Guide to Planning and Furnishing (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)

Don't let the attractiveness of this Better Homes and Garden book fool you. It's useful as well. The many photographs present a full range of options for furnishing an office and the sections give lots of ideas for locating it anywhere in the home. My favorite parts of the book included the chapter on practical matters, such as planning for electrical needs for modern offices, and the section on room design that even included a full page blank graph for making an outline drawing.