Wednesday, September 7, 2011

In need of a little reading material

Kitchen design magazines don't come wrapped in brown paper, but they should. As I lingered a little too long in Home Depot's magazine section, I wondered how many books and magazines I could possibly buy to feed my fantasies. The reading material certainly covered every thought and fetish imaginable, from small space designs (were they spying on me?) to lavish commercial looks. How would any of these magazines help me pare down my ideas? All they would do is give me more ideas - which I daresay I didn't need any more! And sure enough, there they were, devices, tools and tricks I had never even thought of but now couldn't get out of my head: warming drawers, built-in coffemakers, under-cabinet mini-fridges (or is that a wine fridge), hidden shelves. Oh, the possibilities were now endless. I decided I could not do this in public - what if I started to drool? So I bought three magazines - fewer than half the ones they had available - to peruse in the privacy of my own home. Plus, then I could rip out pictures and put them under my pillow to dream about them. I figured if I was armed with pre-determined ideas, I could better manage my upcoming consultations with designers and cabinet suppliers, right? I mean,  how hard could that be?

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