Is it time to drop the yo-yo?
My new piece for kbbreview. Link here, text below. Did you know there’s a sale on? Kitchens are half-price. The…
Category: Kitchens, etc
“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
I’ve tweaked the cover typography on The Heart of the Home. Saw some extra sales before Christmas. If you’ve bought…
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
I mention in The Heart of the Home that I’m not the first to call the kitchen “the heart of…
Consultative selling
In The Heart of the Home, I write about selling and buying kitchens as well as about designing them. I…
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?
Half the job of writing is editing. In pass after pass, I removed one anecdote after another from The Heart of…
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
I never imagined that The Heart of the Home would sell millions, even before publishers told me it wouldn’t. Once you self-publish,…