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Making Room: Finding Space in Unexpected Places [Paperback]

Wendy Adler Jordan (Author)

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Most homeowners long for more space as well as space that better fits their needs. But building an addition is expensive, time-consuming, and disruptive to the household. What homeowners don't realize is that just about every house has room to spare, much of it unrecognized. Making Room showcases creative ideas for areas that are underused or taken for granted--a broom closet, an empty wall, window bays, and corner nooks.
Making Room focuses entirely on creating new spaces within the existing footprint of the home, and explores commonly overlooked spaces and scores of clever ideas for putting those spaces to use. More than 100 creative ideas highlight transformations that are small in scale but big in impact, such as a bathroom closest converted to a shower, drawers incorporated into a staircase, a bookcase built into the base of a staircase, and a computer niche tucked into a hallway. Making Room also provides practical design advice that inspires homeowners to adapt the ideas to any room in their home.

About the Author

Wendy A. Jordan is the author of the best-selling Kidspace Idea Book and the New Kidspace Idea Book, and co-author of Great Kitchens. She is also senior contributing editor of Professional Remodeler magazine and writes a remodeling design column for housingzone.com. She is also the former editor-in-chief for Remodeling magazine.

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Amazon.com: 4.5 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars More Ideas Than I've Ever Found in One Book, Mar 4 2007
By John Matlock "Gunny" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Making Room: Finding Space in Unexpected Places (Paperback)
It took me about five minutes of looking quickly through this book to realize that I needed to take the book home and to carry it around the house looking at things in an entirely different way than I'd ever seen it before. I've been wondering about storage space for some time. This book points out that there is room for about twice as much as I have if I would just look at some of the areas of the house in a different way.

Just some of the ideas:

Stairs: Make the treads to flip-up lids to access the box underneath, or insert drawers underneath. Page 17

Dorway: The space over the door can be converted to a small bookshelf of antique display area. Page 56

Under/Over Kitchen Cabinets: Build a drawer into the toe-kick area under the cabinets for storage of thin things like serving dishes, or all kinds of things can be put into the space above the cabinets.

This is a great idea book of how you can probably double your storage area.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A highly recommended wealth of practical ideas and recommendations, Feb 3 2007
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Making Room: Finding Space in Unexpected Places (Paperback)
In "Making Room: Finding Space In Unexpected Places", author Wendy Jordan draws upon her more than twenty years of experience in the remodeling industry to help apartment dwellers and homeowners to create new areas of `liveability' within their existing residence without the necessity of major remodeling. Profusely illustrated throughout, "Making Room" features more than one hundred creative, do-it-yourself ways to make the living space within a home bigger and better without adding on or tearing down walls. More than forty case studies illustrate dozens of ideas highlighting transformation that are `small in scale but big in impact'. From converting the toe-kick under kitchen cabinets into perfect storage areas for serving dishes; to the use of hooks, shelves, and slim cabinetry to enhance the usefulness of a closet, to building a draw into a stair and thereby creating a jumbo-size storage area for bulky items, "Making Room" offers a highly recommended wealth of practical ideas and recommendations for interior design and remodeling that are easy to do and enduringly useful.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars pass it around, everybody finds something they love., Jan 17 2007
By M. Chandler - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Making Room: Finding Space in Unexpected Places (Paperback)
Brought this book to Friday lunch at our Design-Build company. Passed it around the table and everybody had different favorite great idea's they wanted us all to check out. I like the way the material is organized great idea's, a couple different versions, suggestions for ways to "Make it your own"

A permanent addition to our design library. If you are building or remodeling there are good ideas to be had in this book.
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