Flanagan’s Smart Home by Barbara Flanagan

Released November 2008

This book is well-organized and no-nonsense. Following Flanagan’s advice could probably build you a very clean and efficient home. It could probably also empty your wallet and strip you of items whose value is basically sentimental.

I liked how the book is laid out, the sections are divided up by room. While it was fun to day dream about dumping out every drawer in the kitchen and starting over… that’s not terribly practical. This book would be useful to come back to again and again as a reference to help you re-populate various rooms when appliances die or it’s redecorating time.

Flanagan certainly knows her stuff and picks interesting and useful looking items to populate her super-house. — Sara Wedell, Adult Services Librarian