Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, 2nd Edition

• Reading Architectural Working Drawings: Residential and Light Construction, Volume 1 (v. 1)
• The Codes Guidebook for Interiors
• Interiors: An Introduction
• Interior Design Visual Presentation: A Guide to Graphics, Models & Presentation Techniques, Second Edition
• Interior Design Visual Presentation: A Guide to Graphics, Models & Presentation Techniques

Interior designers, architects, and other design professionals can still turn to the field's beloved "Silver Bible" for a wealth of information related to the design and planning of residential and commercial interiors. But now, Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, Second Edition goes even further to truly make the classic interior design reference the standard in its field.

From standard furniture dimensions to architectural woodwork details, you'll find a vast array of time-saving data and details. Editors Joseph DeChiara, Julius Panero, and Martin Zelnik have brought together contributions from well-known architectural and interior design firms to give you details derived from actual designs and working drawings, showing various solutions for typical design problems encountered in interior architecture.

You get a wide range of typical layouts and residential spaces, offices, conference rooms, and reception areas, in addition to details of bars, restaurants, and public toilets. This exciting new edition includes new international examples and metrification – and provides you with full coverage of healthcare spaces, educational spaces; home offices; videoconferencing spaces; green design; project forms and schedules. Two outstanding sections cover historic styles and woodworking.

I have been a practicing ID for the last 15 years and can't believe I had not purchased this manual previously. Well worth every penny. This is a great tool, very informative. Great time-saver.

The standard dimensions are useful, though, especially for space planning purposes. Because I think they can do better. The Index is a goose-chase. I do not agree that it has much useful information on furniture styles: you'd be better off to shell out for Aronson's "Encyclopedia of Furniture" or Miller's "Furniture" and get right to what you need. This is a required book for anyone in Interior Design for a good reason: it has about everything, including the (many kinds) of kitchen sink.

Why three stars. What I really can't stand about using it is the seemingly arbitrary indexing, scattered locations for information and nearly impossible to decipher graphics on some pages. Don't be surprised if there is information missing in some cases, or it is outright incorrect. It is time for a rehaul of the Silver Monster. Be sure to cross-reference and here's another tip: make a cheat sheet for yourself for the pages you use most, tape it to the inside cover and go from there.

This is a tome of a book, and its contents are initially very impressive, but it STILL contains many old and out of date details which have been pulled and photocopied from projects that are rather worn and ragged looking. Or, at least, one should have both books but check the information in this one against the far more accurate volume by Kruse/McGowan. Also, many of the drawings are not legible due to size and lineweight quality, and so you may have to resort to pulling out a magnifying glass to decipher the information.In my opinion, a superior resource is "Interior Graphic Standards" by Kelsey Kruse and Maryrose McGowan.

The book acknowledges designing for handicap, retail, hospitality and residential spaces. Besides just being large and heavy, this book is filled with great information. For a beginner, it can be overwhelming, but it is definitely a book every designer should have on their bookshelf. It reviews the standard sizes for furniture pieces, ceiling heights etc.Once you find what your looking for (through all of those pages), you definitely get good direction from the information provided on it. It provides guidelines, dimensions, and tons of illustrations for creating the proper space.

I am a last semester interior design student and just bought this book-I wish I had had it from the start. As well there is a nice colored section of wood and marble samples-a real time saver indeed. The book has nice sections on historical periods and furniture dimensions, residential, office, hospitality, retail, health care, banking and public restroom spaces, with lots and lots of plans, elevations and sections for each category. There is also a general reference section at the back of the book with lots of tables (space planning, wall covering or yardage amounts, as well as electrical and math tables).