The Illustrated Guide to Cabinet Doors and Drawers: Design, Detail, and Construction

Great showcase of the various door styles available

After being disappointed with another book on "Cabinet Making", this one stands high above it and others I currently own. This book is organized with building Kitchen Cabinets in mind. It covers just about everything you need to know for good results in Cabinet Making with traditional joinery and construction. I didn't see one reference to pocket hole joinery in the entire text, and that is amazing. I highly recommend this book.It gets four stars for being excellent, but why not five? I am strict on reviews and tend to only give five stars for something I consider a "Must Have, I don't know how I would live without it" product. This book is great, awesome even, but I am reserving five stars for true champions of design and execution. I can see most people probably giving this five stars, and I am very satisfied, with my purchase.I will probably buy other David Getts books.

At first glance, this book might seem as a good investment for those getting into wood working and basic cabinetry. This book illustrates what your doors and cabinets 'could' look like but not 'how' to build it. It gave me several great ideas and foreshadowed would I could build in the future but I could have saved the $21 dollars and just looked on pintrest.Dont buy it, you'll have better luck googling ' cabinet ' then selecting images.

I saw this at the bookstore and read through it. I can't imagine who would have use for this book. It is an illustrated guide to design and has numerous pictures of various door styles. It is a very poor "how to" book, and even includes metal doors and drawers (why would anyone include metal fabrication in a woodworking book?).Many of the kitchen photos are out of focus. The only interesting portion of the entire book was on page 126 which explained how to create snap-together window grills (a.k.a. mullions).The end of the book is filled with photos of the author's door production facility (and this would be interesting to which group of woodworkers?).All in all, this book is not worthy of Linden Publishing who usually produces outstanding works.