Room Recipes: Ingredients for Great Looking Rooms [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

by Cheryl Katz (Author), Jeffrey Katz (Author)
Key Phrases: eclectic rooms, bullion fringe, outdoor room

Editorial Reviews

Review
Our favorite decorating book. These blueprints for design make decorating easy, even for the neophyte. -- Nancy Jane Hastings, Canadian House & Home, April 2001

Room Recipes is thoroughly user friendly and very beautifully illustrated throughout with sensational color photography. -- Internet Book Watch

What this book concentrates on is how to translate style into beautiful, pulled-together rooms. -- Kathleen Dore, Style At Home Magazine, April 2001

Product Description
Choose the design style you want with Room Recipes as your essential style guide. Pick from thirteen different style recipes for the inspiration and know-how to create the rooms you’ve always wanted. This visual and tactile sourcebook is packed with the design ingredients—paint, wallcovering, flooring, fabric, upholstery samples, furniture, and color schemes—to help you create the home that best reflects your tastes and personality.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books; illustrated edition edition (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564966941
• ISBN-13: 978-1564966940
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,586,023 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great varitey, includes resource information, July 22, 2001

By	Angel Lee "Liocorno Amethyst Moonstone" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This is a wonderful and very unique book that shows a tremendous variety of room styles and then discusses the elements that make them up. From cluttered comfort to sleekly modern, the emphasis is on the purely decorative aspects of the rooms. Beneath the surface there are some great ideas about space utilization, storage and lighting as well.

Thirteen different room styles are shown such as graphic standard, cottage life, wood works, romantic white, elegant eclecticism, flower power, classical composed and inside out. Each style is described and several example photos are given. Captions highlight the details and important aspects that make up the room. An "ingredients" list tells all about the materials such as flooring, hardware, fabric, and wall covering that work in the space to create the right effect.

Unlike so many decorating books that show you lots of wonderful stuff and then leave you in the dark about where to get it, I was thrilled to see a resource list that tells you where to find all the elements used in the book. It even includes website addresses when applicable. With such a vast array of themes and ideas this book has something for everyone.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A compendium of visual & tactile information and suggestions, March 18, 2001

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

In Room Recipes: Ingredients For Great Looking Rooms, Cheryl and Jeffrey Katz offers the reader thirteen different, inspiring style recipes backed with their considerable expertise and know-how in creating rooms of memorable distinction and appearance. Room Recipes is a compendium of visual and tactile information and suggestions that covers a range of design ingredients including paint, wallcovering, flooring, fabric, upholstery samples, furniture, and color schemes. A superbly presented and highly recommended addition to any interior design reference book collection, Room Recipes is thoroughly user friendly and very beautifully illustrated throughout with sensational color photography.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clarity in personal space design revealed, April 18, 2007

By	djuoh "djuoh" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Room Recipes: Ingredients for Great Looking Rooms (Interior Design and Architecture) (Paperback)

As a former employee of the Katz's, I have to say that this book is extremely thoughtful. The personal touch of their design abilities is portrayed in this book. They are almost giving away their secrets.
When referred to help family members with design, I usually purchase this book for them.
It makes an excellent gift for the confused individual that is trying to make over their home.