Building Projects for the Backyard Farmer: A Guide to 12 Handmade Structures for Homegrown Harvests

(Paperback / softback)

This is a practical and engaging guide to transforming an ordinary backyard into a productive farm. Homesteading is experiencing a revival among both rural and urban residents who want to get back to basics and live closer to the land. With this book, homeowners will obtain both inspiration and instruction for transforming their grassy yard into a lush farm that....

Home Extensions

(Paperback)

Provides expert advice on extending your property. Starting with the early planning stages, this title guides you through each step of the extension, from initial drawings to final coat of paint. It also includes chapters on: Planning, Plans, Builders, Substructure, Superstructure, Internal Work and External Work.

Houses of the Sundown Sea Houses of the Sundown Sea: The Architectural Vision of Harry Gesner the Architectural Vision of Harry Gesner

By Lisa Germany(Hardback)

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How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home

By Charlie Wing(Paperback)

ECO House Book

By Terence Conran(Paperback)

New in paperback, Eco House Book is the complete guide to home improvement the environmentally friendly way. Whether you want to redecorate or redesign your home, Terence Conran explains the environmental issues that we face today and how you can reduce your home's carbon footprint.

Wood Identification & Use

(Paperback)

Describes more than 200 timber species. This title features colour photographs of each species, and reliable data on working properties, seasoning requirements and typical uses. Aimed squarely at the individual or small-scale user, whether professional or amateur, it includes woods used in cabinetmaking, joinery, carpentry, turning and carving.

Trade Secrets

By Reader's Digest(Paperback)

Plumbing Made Easy

By R. D. Treloar(Paperback)

Do you want to know how to carry out simple plumbing jobs and save the expense of paying a professional? Get a kickstart with this little book which will give you just enough to get you going...

From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story

By Ron Tanner(Hardback)

Pools & Spas, Third Edition

By Francis J Donegan & David Short(Paperback / softback)

Offers ideas and advice through the complete process--from pool/spa selection to creating an attractive environment. Over 400 beautiful color photos and illustrations show the many options available--from infinity-edge pools to indoor swim spas; from built-ins to attractive aboveground pools. Valuable advice is included on site selection, materials, financing, and more. Also includes ideas to create the ideal setting for the....

Best Signature Outdoor Kitchens

(Paperback / softback)

Best Signature Outdoor Kitchens provides a glimpse of more than 100 modern, state-of-the-art kitchens designed for outdoors from leading designers around the country. Over 250 beautiful, full-color photographs and illustrated floor plans show readers how to turn any deck, patio, or other outdoor area into a great cooking/barbecue/kitchen area. Includes designer planner with templates and grid.

Planet Home: Conscious Choices for Cleaning and Greening the World You Care about Most

By Jeffrey Hollender(Paperback / softback)

From Seventh Generation co-founder and chairman Hollender comes an indispensable reference for anyone who wants to maintain a healthy home and a healthy world.

Home Accessibility: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier

By Shelley Peterman Schwarz(Paperback)

A title designed to help people with chronic illness, physical disability, temporary or permanent (including low vision, blind, hard of hearing, the Deaf, and others), and age-related limitations make their homes safer and more accessible without costly remodeling or structural changes.

Queen of Common Cents: Over 1001 Tips and Facts to Save Time and Money

By Michelle Snow(Paperback / softback)

Be it in the kitchen, laundry room, bathroom, out in the garden or on vacation, bestselling author Michelle Snow, will help you save time, money and resources by teaching you everyday money and time saving tips and facts that work! This is a must-have book for every person who wants to make their life a little easier and their pocket....

Making Your Home Sustainable: A Guide to Retrofitting, Revised Edition

(Paperback)

Making Your Home Sustainable is a practical and easy-to-follow guide for homeowners, builders and architects who are concerned about the effects of climate change and environmental degradation and want to do something about reversing the trend.

Domestic Bliss: A Modern Guide to Homemaking

(Hardback)

The essential skills of how to keep your house from falling down around your ears are not taught in school, and our parents were so busy earning a living they had no time to pass on the wisdom the world sees as 'common sense'. This guide focuses on those household problems and challenges you are most likely to encounter in....

365 Ways to Organize Everything: *Home *Family *Food...and Much Much More

By Emilie Barnes & Sheri Torelli(Paperback / softback)

Bestselling author Emilie Barnes teams up with fellow home-management expert and author Sheri Torelli to provide readers with an all-in-one collection of ideas, shortcuts, and inspiration to bring beauty and order to every aspect of their lives and homes. These creative, experienced coauthors of the popular More Hours In My Day (over 240,000 copies sold) offer women proven ways to:....

Kirstie's Homemade Home

By Kirstie Allsopp(Paperback)

The beautiful, practical and inspirational book to accompany Kirstie Allsopp's hugely popular Channel 4 series.

Rough Cut Woodworking with Tommy Mac: 12 Step-by-step Projects

By Tommy MacDonald(Paperback)

Famed woodworker Tommy MacDonald and with WGBH Boston have joined forces to produce a 12-episode television show by the name "Rough Cut Woodworking with Tommy Mac". This book features these 12 episodes, which include smaller projects like a Shaker Step Stool to larger undertakings like a Pilgrim Blanket Chest.

Working with Tile

By Tom Meehan & Lane Meehan(Paperback)

Over the years the tile world has gone through some significant changes. Advances in technology and research have brought new installation products and tools to the market and the changes continue at a rapid pace in every facet of the tile industry. This edition introduces the tools and materials available to DIYers.