Customer Reviews

Ideas for Great Wall Systems

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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.

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

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Minuses: the photos are mostly boring and/or outdated.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