GOOD GREEN KITCHENS
          The Ultimate Resource for Creating a
          Beautiful, Healthy, Eco-Friendly Kitchen

Good Green Kitchens, with its gorgeous photographs and accessible text, is loaded with inspiration and information to help you create your dream green kitchen — a kitchen that works great and is beautiful, healthier and easier on the environment.

Never have expectations been so high for the kitchen. It has to look terrific, of course, and hold up to the demands of our fast-paced lifestyles. Not only that, we expect our kitchen — as the heart of our home — to exude health, to be a vibrant space that nurtures body and soul.

And increasingly, we’re coming to appreciate that creating a healthy home means taking care of people and the planet.

Get ready to be inspired to make your next kitchen-improvement project a green one. Even if you’re not planning a top-to-bottom kitchen re-do, this book offers dozens of practical, everyday solutions that will contribute to a healthier planet.

Good Green Kitchens gives the lowdown on what’s green and what’s not when it comes to kitchen design. Here’s a taste of what’s inside:

• Extensive resource lists of eco-friendly products, manufacturers and retailers
• More than 150 color photos of beautiful kitchens and enticing products
• Up-close profiles of beautiful, green kitchens and the people who created them
• Tips for environmentally responsible redecorating, remodeling and building from the ground up
• In-depth chapters on greener alternatives for flooring, cabinets, countertops and appliances
• Strategies for greening the whole house
• Guidance on how to keep pollutants out of the kitchen
• Tips for keeping costs in check when greening your kitchen
• Advice on designing smaller kitchens that look great and really work
• Comparisons of flooring and countertop options, including their environmental pros and cons

From range hoods to refrigerators, from cooktop options to daylighting designs, from old-fashioned favorites like natural linoleum to hot new products like recycled-glass counters, Good Green Kitchens is your go-to source for making your dream green kitchen come true.

 

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What they're saying about Good Green Kitchens

 

"This is an encyclopedia of great ideas on how to build a kitchen with a conscience — a kitchen as handsome and homey (or as sleekly modern) as any around... Photos throughout illustrate the inherent beauty and design possibilities of each material mentioned, and may be an eye-opener to those about to embark on a kitchen remodel. But the book delivers more. The inspiration, information and illustrations offered can be used in rooms throughout the house." —Los Angeles Times

 

"The sheer volume of up-to-date information about the cost, durability, environmental impact, safety, and sources of green materials is worth the book's cover price... It's a good book for any builder's bookshelf, as it can serve as a combination specification guide/selling tool for teaching and managing those clients who are more frequently demanding green kitchens." —Green Builder magazine. Read the full review in the September 2006 issue at greenbuildermag.com. 

 

"This book really doesn't take the fun out of remodeling. It does, rather, make kitchen design a more philosophical and practical global endeavor while creating a soul space for your home, no matter the size." —Chicago Life magazine. Read the full review at ChicagoLife.net.

 

"When Roberts says "ultimate," she means ultimate. If you can't come up with a green kitchen after reading this, you just weren't paying attention. Roberts covers every topic you could imagine — and possibly some you couldn't — along a continuum of green..." —Seattle Times. Click here to read the full review.

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Good Green Kitchens

The Ultimate Resource for Creating a Beautiful, Healthy, Eco-Friendly Kitchen

by Jennifer Roberts

 

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2006, $29.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 1-58685-700-2, 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches,
184 pages, 158 color photos

With photos by Linda Svendsen
Cover photo by Emily Hagopian

 

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