Making Kitchen Cabinets

By Paul Levine

Pub. The Taunton Press.

U.S. $17.95

MAKING KITCHEN Cabinets is
aimed at people who want to
build kitchen cabinets for their
own home.

The author is a certified kitchen
designer (a qualification net ob-
tained by mail! order — it means
something).

With clearly written text and ex-
cellent color and black-and-white
photos and drawings, he takes you
through planning and designing a
kitchen — what works and what
doesn’t, things to avoid, comfort-
able cabinet heights, etc.

Next comes information on

In Review

LOOKS AT BOOKS

designing the actual cabinets --
overall, outside, inside details and
interior fittings (shelves, drawers,
etc.) and how toe develop a list of
required materials.

Chapter Three deals with hard-
ware, and the author pulls no

Kids’ series takes
Nands-on approach

Things | Can Make With Paper,
Buttons, Beads, Leaves, Stones,
Boxes, Corks

(Series of seven books)

By Sabine Lohf

Pub. Chronicle Books
Distributed by

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$8.95 each

SABINE LOHF's Things | Can
Make books are sure-fire winners
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The set of seven sturdy hard-
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on creating art and playthings with
buttons, beads, corks, boxes,
stones, leaves and paper.

An eif-like character guides
readers through the colorful i!-
lustrations, making the books
pleasant picturebooks to look
through at storytime as well as fun
ast books to refer to at craft time.

They are ideal in that they call
upon the reader's imagination —

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no TV superheroes intrude upon
your children’s meanderings into
their own minds — and the sug:
gested projects don’t calf for vast
outlays of cash on art supplies.

In fact, the crafts will help you
use up leftover scraps of paper and
fabric, keeping them out of the
garbage, and they alse call for ma-
terials that can be found ona
neighborhood nature walk.

The projects ae especialy
designed to appeal to four- to
eight-year-olds, an age group that
is often overlooked by many
children’s art books that demand
the manual dexterity of older kids.

As a testament to the books’ vi-
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on display at the Vancouver Art
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—~ Peggy Trendell-Whittaker is a
writer for the Narth Shore News.

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punches: for drawer slides, use
one of two U.S. makers’ products;
for hinges, etc. North American
stuffis junk, so go with European
hardware.

Drawer and door pulls can be
made or bought, and Levine tells
all, as well as much about shelf
supports, bumpers, etc.

Chapter Four covers specific
materials to use — from the ordi-
nary to the exotic — and how to
wark with them. An entire chapter
is devoted to all the tricks and
techniques of working with plastic
laminate surfacing materials (for-
mica. etc.) then comes actual
construction of cases, drawers,
facings, finishing and instatlation.

All the way along, the author

kitchen cabinetry

tells you what to do, how to detect
any probiems, and how to get
yourself out of those problems as
the job progresses.

The system ef construction
detailed is easy and etticient, re-
quires a minimum of tools, and
should be sufficient to enable
anyone with basic woodworking
sxills to produce a kitchen full of
cabinets equal or better than those
offered co: nmercialiy.

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couver writer.

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