Room Recipes: Ingredients for Great-Looking Rooms

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.

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.

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.