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I can't recommend any books but I can recommend literature from kitchen manufacturers.

Visit the showrooms and collect the literature and you will have so many different styles and designs to look at. When you are ready to design your kitchen you will have a lot of great ideas.

I have a recommendation but it's really old and it is SO not about how the kitchen looks. Instead, it's about how the kitchen works and how you can design a kitchen to support good, sustainable, healthy eating and living. The book is called Smart Kitchen by David Goldbeck. It's got no color pics, just funky, hippy drawings. But, I have used the organization ideas in it for years as I've made small changes to my kitchen (I, too, unfortunately, am many years away from the remodel of my dreams). I highly recommend this off-beat book.