Ideas for Great Wall Systems [Paperback]

Sunset Pub Staff (Author), Lynne Gilberg (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Ideas for Great | Publication Date: October 1992

A planning and shopping guide presents dozens of permanent and portable wall systems for holding books, electronics, and keepsakes, pictured in more than one hundred photographs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Sunset Pub Co; 1st edition (October 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0376017201
• ISBN-13: 978-0376017208
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,583,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty pictures, useless book, October 20, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Ideas for Great Wall Systems (Paperback)

A written-by-committee book full of beautiful photographs, mostly of built-in bookshelves and cabinets.

You'll get no help PLANNING a wall system. There are lots of photo examples in rooms with soaring twenty-foot ceilings. Lots of examples designed by architects and built in when the mansion was constructed. None of this will help plan a wall system in an average home.

You'll get little or no help with BUILDING or DESIGNING a wall systems in an average home. The focus is on the pretty photos, the text is simply fill-in. No plans. No non-obvious design hints.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars terrific ideas,no plans, February 21, 2000

By 

John Payette (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ideas for Great Wall Systems (Paperback)

I bought this book in the hopes that it would also contain plans for some wall designs. It did not. However the book did contain some excellent examples of designs. I guess I should have trusted the title

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Only worth a quick glance, December 13, 2002

By 

Amy Hilliard (VA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ideas for Great Wall Systems (Paperback)

Pluses: The book gives you a general overview of what types of wall systems are available.

Minuses: the photos are mostly boring and/or outdated.

Recommendation: Many of the books in the Ideas for Great series are useful. However, this book is not one of them. I would skip it or check it out from the library.