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Ian M. Palmer

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Ian M. Palmer

Writing, Illustration and 3D

  • Writing
    • The Heart of the Home
    • Pillbox Country
  • Comics & Cartoons
    • River: Skin on the Outside
    • The American President
    • The Chicken King And The Prince Of Birds
    • Beith
    • The Blessing
  • Art & Photography
    • 2323
  • 3D Modelling
  • Contact Me

The Heart of the Home

HistoryPillboxes & Architecture

Pillbox Country

Art & Illustration

2323

3DArt & Illustration

River

“Iconic” kitchen design
HistoryKitchens, etcSelling & Retail

“Iconic” kitchen design

Here’s the full text of my piece for kbbreview. The magazine suggested the topic – one with which I don’t…

A tweak
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

A tweak

I’ve tweaked the cover typography on The Heart of the Home. Saw some extra sales before Christmas. If you’ve bought…

In Memoriam
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

In Memoriam

So in the end, Homebase wasn’t able to recover from the most ill-conceived retail takeover in recent history. Before all…

Finding the heart
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

Finding the heart

I mention in The Heart of the Home that I’m not the first to call the kitchen “the heart of…

Consultative selling
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

Consultative selling

In The Heart of the Home, I write about selling and buying kitchens as well as about designing them. I…

Changes
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

Changes

Because I spent so long, on and off, writing The Heart of the Home, I had to keep deciding whether to…

How essential is it?
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

How essential is it?

Half the job of writing is editing. In pass after pass, I removed one anecdote after another from The Heart of…

A bit dodge
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

A bit dodge

I’ve never made it a secret that there are practices in our market sector with which I’m not going to…

Trust me, I’m a salesman
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

Trust me, I’m a salesman

I never imagined that The Heart of the Home would sell millions, even before publishers told me it wouldn’t. Once you self-publish,…

The mass market
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

The mass market

I’ve hinted that The Heart of the Home went through a lot of rewriting. Some was to do with fact – adding…

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