Representing the definitive knowledge and professional experience of leading authorities, the nine volumes of the NKBA's Professional Resource Library make up the core body of knowledge for the kitchen and bath industry. These volumes are the vital information that you need for success and material you must master for NKBA certification exams.
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Volumes of the Professional Resource Library
Bath Planning
Authors: Kathleen Parrott, CKE, Julia Beamish, CKE, and JoAnn Emmel, with Mary Jo Peterson, CKD, CBD, CAPS
The most authoritative planning resource available, this volume contains everything a professional needs to know to design a safe, functional, efficient, and attractive bath.
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Design Principles
Author: Ellen Cheever, CMKBD, ASID
Design Principles provides a clear, concise explanation of the aesthetics of design and how they apply to kitchens and baths. It relates concepts to actual situations and enables readers to clearly understand how they can apply them to their own projects.
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Kitchen & Bath Business Management
Authors: Hank Darlington, with Ellen Cheever, CMKBD, ASID
Approximately 450 pages of vital information for running your business, including business plans, mission statements, starting a business, financing a small business, customer targeting, and successful management techniques. This volume includes more than 100 useful graphs, charts, and sample forms, as well as a CD with a wide range of customizable forms.
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Kitchen & Bath Drawing
Authors: David Newton, CMKBD, with Kelly Hayes
With approximately 150 pages containing more than 100 illustrations, this volume is a complete guide to virtually all facets and techniques of graphic kitchen and bath representation. It provides expert insight on accurate measurements, drafting basics, tools and techniques of hand drawing, perspectives, plans and elevations, computer drafting, the metric system, the NKBA's Graphics & Presentation Standards, and more.
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Kitchen & Bath Products
Author: Ellen Cheever, CMKBD, ASID
An encyclopedic guide to virtually all products used in today's kitchens and baths, this volume is an essential tool for understanding the materials, construction, features, and benefits of everything that you are specifying.
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Kitchen & Bath Project Management
Author: Ellen Cheever, CMKBD, ASID, with Paul Pankow, CKBI
An essential resource guide to installation procedures and project management, this volume was written specifically for designers. Covers the lead installer system, sub-contractors from lumber and home centers, job costs and profit margins, pre-construction procedures, and installation-related design concerns.
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Kitchen & Bath Systems
Author: Jerry Germer
Created with the kitchen and bath designer in mind, this book contains a comprehensive explanation of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems for kitchens and baths. This essential reference provides the "big picture," as well as detailed information on the inner-workings of the two most important rooms of the home.
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Kitchen Planning
Authors: Julia Beamish, CKE, Kathleen Parrott, CKE, and JoAnn Emmel, with Mary Jo Peterson, CKD, CBD, CAPS
An essential reference for anyone in the kitchen field, Kitchen Planning contains everything a professional needs to know to design kitchens that are convenient, functional, and efficient, and that meet the needs of today's lifestyles.
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Residential Construction
Author: Jerry Germer
Learning to "read a house" is an essential skill for anyone in the kitchen and bath field. This comprehensive volume provides a thorough and in-depth explanation of the structural systems used in residential construction, as well as materials and codes.
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