Before & After Kitchen Makeovers; Book overview: Four hundred full-color photographs, 144 pages accompanied by a host of design details and innovative ideas, take forty kitchens through a transformation from dull and dysfunctional to stylish and cutting edge, as they follow a series of makeovers, from small-budget fixes to lavish renovations.

Christine E. Barnes is an author, teacher, and contemporary quilter in love with color. Degrees in design and journalism segued into a writing career that has produced more than a dozen decorating, quilting, remodeling, and soft furnishings books. Her latest book, The Quilter’s Color Club, presents a simple, can-do approach to using color in quilts, whether the reader is part of a mini-group, a quilting class, or working solo. Three color concepts—value, temperature, and intensity—are key to her strategy and make special effects like transparency and luminosity doable, even for beginners. No matter what their experience, Christine likes to tell students and readers that success with color is more about practice than talent!

Christine's work has been published in American Quilter, Threads, Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, For The Love of Quilting, and Fabrications, a British quilting magazine. She lives in Northern California's Gold Country. You can see her work at christinebarnes.com

Weekend Kitchen Makeovers: Paul Ryan

Illustrated Techniques & Stylish Solutions. Book overview:

Retro, contemporary, Mama's, professional chef's: whatever your dream kitchen, the host of DIY Network's Kitchen Renovations helps it become reality! Paul Ryan offers beautifully doable, affordable ideas for improving this all-important room's look, style, and function. Even more amazing, three of the projects-entirely new for the book-can be completed in only 48-hours! That means a new kitchen in a single weekend. There's one inspired by the owners' honeymoon in Tuscany; another that's got a hip, metro look, with cutting edge appliances; and a third that gleams with Southwestern flair. Others, equally attractive and practical, take a little bit longer, including an expansion that transforms a walled-off, cramped space into a luxurious, open eye-pleaser! All ten renovations are shown in before, during, and after photography.

Both of these books are in like new condition. (They even smell new).

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