By Wendy A. Jordan
Give Wendy A. Jordan an inch of your home, and she will surely take the proverbial mile with her book Making Room. Just when you were about to pay for an expensive addition or a major renovation, Jordan, a senior contributing editor at Professional Remodeler magazine, shows you ways to “discover secluded corners or alcoves that can add living area to your home.”
Untapped areas become vital storage and a workroom. Lackluster wall space becomes an area of interest and function. The author explores simple things like removable dowels as well as more complex projects like a piece of furniture that does double duty as a bedroom bureau on one side of a wall and a dining room side table on another. Jordan takes a collection of tips from designers, architects, and individuals and puts them in this great 170-page handbook.
Redefining traditional spaces like attics and crawlspaces and creating new places under bathtubs and atop radiators, Making Room reinvents what we think of as “storage space,” giving us simple ways to organize and transform our homes, without over-spending or compromising personality in favor of function.
170 pages/The Taunton Press. Reviewed by Editorial Assistant, Annliese Scott
