Taunton's Family Home Idea Book

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: Taunton Press generally publishes very useful books about home design, particularly regarding storage ideas. This book, however, seems to have been put together very quickly in order to sell copies.

Most annoying, are pictures that are too small - there is nothing worse than squinting at a picture, or worse, being tempted to take out a magnifying glass. This is especially irksome when there is a giant blank spot of empty page right above and beside it.
The larger pictures are lovely, but editorial decisions are questionable when so much page is left blank. For instance, some of the photos are smaller than your average photograph.

Finally, there is something disturbing about declaring a house a "family home" based mostly, it seems, on size. These are homes which contain media rooms, arts & crafts rooms, built-in storage designed from solid wood which would break anybody's budget.
This book definitely advocates size over practicality; there seems little hope for the family living a home that isn't the size of a football field.