Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Custom Shelves & Built-ins: Build Custom Add-ons to Create a One-of-a-kind Home

by Theresa Coleman

Luxury Built In to Every ProjectToday's homeowners seek the upscale, premium home styling offered by custom built-in shelving, storage units and cabinetry. Window seats, loft beds, library walls, pub bars and kitchen banquettes are just some of the features found in luxury homes.

And these luxury features are now possible for do-it-yourselfers, with the help of this innovative book. The Complete Guide to Custom Shelves & Built-ins shows readers how to achieve the finest built-ins by adapting stock cabinets and pre-made shelving to create amazing effects with only the most basic of carpentry skills. Other projects are based on traditional and classic cabinet-making methods.

With more than 30 ingenious step-by-step projects, this book will help any homeowners achieve custom built-ins that add function and style to any home d¬cor.



Features easy-to-achieve built-ins made from stock cabinetryùno expert carpentry skills neededIncludes built-ins for every space in the home -- from garage to formal living roomIncludes a chapter on cabinet basics, including installation

Genres: Woodwork

765 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2007

Reviews

[Yaaresse · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not quite as good as their other book on built-ins. The how-to information, as always, is thorough, but the examples and ideas in this one aren't as interesting or good-looking. They all sort of screamed "hobbyist DIY project."