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1) Landscape ideas you can use: how to choose structures, surfaces & plants that transform your yard
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Beautiful landscapes can be found in every corner of the country, but they didn't design themselves. Large or small, rural or urban, every outdoor space is an opportunity to showcase your yard with a little pizzazz. That's where this book comes in - much more than a pretty book of dreamy landscapes, you'll find common sense combines with the creative know-how to envision and embrace new landscape ideas and techniques for your specific home environment....
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"In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well as a range of other homes, this comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities and instincts, as well as your likes and dislikes, with practical steps for navigating and embracing your authentic design...
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Rediscover the heart of your home and your story.
Home is meant to be a place to belong. A place to gather and connect. A place of beauty. A place to restore your soul. Creating a restored home-the kind that you and your loved ones want to return to again and again-is as much about making everyone who enters feel cared for and comfortable as it is about creating a beautiful space.
In Restoration House, home decor and lifestyle guide Kennesha...
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In 1901, Gustav Stickley began to create the first uniquely American style of furniture and home design-known as Craftsman. Stickley's principles of home design include construction that is in harmony with its landscape, open floor plans, built-in storage, and natural lighting. He was a major influence on Frank Lloyd Wright, and he remains one of the great names in American architecture. Craftsman Homes and Bungalows showcases his work in an affordable,...
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Beautiful design isn't just pleasant to look at; it improves the quality of our lives. It helps foster the traditions, rituals, and ceremonies we create in our homes. In Live Beautiful, the highly anticipated design book by Athena Calderone, the EyeSwoon creator taps into her network of interior decorators, fashion designers, and tastemakers to reveal how carefully crafted interiors come together. She also opens the doors to two of her own residences....
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Accepting the path of home improvement mastery is a life-changing event that calls for ongoing education, practical experience, and a dedication to honing one's abilities in improving and caring for a home. This journey is a comprehensive method to comprehending, maintaining, and improving the condition of your home; it goes beyond sporadic repairs or renovations. This ebook covers a vast range of topics on home maintenance and improvement, Here is...
7) Guide To Designing A Productive And Inspiring Home Office: Design Your Office For Comfort , Effic
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Readers of the book "Guide to Designing a Productive and Inspiring Home Office" are provided with a thorough and useful resource for setting up an effective, cozy, and inspiring office inside their own homes. This manual explores the psychological and ergonomic elements that contribute to a productive remote work environment in addition to the practical aspects of setting up a home office. Anyone looking to design a workstation that smoothly melds...
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Moving house has never flustered author Jane Christmas. She loves houses: viewing them, negotiating their price, dreaming up interior plans, hiring tradespeople to do the work and overseeing renovations. She loves houses so much that she’s moved thirty-two times.
There are good reasons for her latest house move, but after viewing sixty homes, Jane and her husband succumb to the emotional fatigue of an overheated English housing market and buy a...
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Mexican Interior Design Style is a perfect ebook that explains how you can decorate in Mexican interior and decorating style in a very easy way. The ebook on Mexican home interiors explains the key features of Mexican interiors. This ebook explains in detail, how Mexican art, architecture, color schemes, and textiles create a traditional Mexican ambiance. If you are planning to renovate or design the interior of your new home and are looking for inspiration,...
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Continuing the Instructables series with Skyhorse Publishing, a mammoth collection of projects has been selected and curated for this special best-of volume of Instructables. The guides in this book cover the entire spectrum of possibilities that the popular website has to offer, showcasing how online communities can foster and nurture creativity.
From outdoor agricultural projects to finding new uses for traditional household objects, the beauty...
From outdoor agricultural projects to finding new uses for traditional household objects, the beauty...
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How many stories have you heard of kitchen disasters, disputes with builders and kitchen manufacturers, and people not getting what they thought they bought?
This can often lead to having to go through arbitration or lengthy court battles. Sometimes the client wins, sometimes they lose, however no one wins in the end as this all takes time and can lead to a lot of distress, while you may be left sitting with an unfinished kitchen.
“Kitchen Secrets...
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Ever dream of escaping to a cozy cabin in the great outdoors? This unique bind-up of Conrad Meinecke's classic works helps make that a reality, while imparting a deeper appreciation of nature and of building something with your own two hands.
For 70 years, readers have been enjoying Meinecke's odes to the simple life, Your Cabin in the Woods and Cabin Craft and Outdoor Living. For the first time, these books are combined into a deluxe two-color vintage...
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With over 180 photographs Contemporary Asian Living Rooms explores 50 of Southeast Asia's most interesting homes and hotels. Living room design in Asia has moved away form the classical Asia style to incorporate the new global chic. This Asian design book takes you into the living rooms of fifty of Southeast Asia's most interesting homes and hotels, showcasing the work of up-and-coming local talents such as Pantaa, Yothaka and Tawul Praman as well...
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Every year, thousands of homeowners apply for planning permission and come away battered and bruised. As a council case officer, Martin Gaine was part of the problem, continuously rejecting applications from poorly prepared applicants. Seeing that they were getting a raw deal, he founded Just Planning, a consultancy dedicated to helping homeowners to beat the planners.
How to Get Planning Permission is a lively and accessible guide for homeowners....
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Much has been written about the individual components of sustainable building, but how do you bring it all together into a well-designed whole? Drawing on extensive hands-on experience, Making Better Buildings systematically describes the real-world implications of the most popular green and natural building materials and techniques, objectively presenting the pros, cons and overall viability of each. An indispensable resource.
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A wonderful book for anyone interested in starting their own homestead or small farm. This book will show you how to be self reliant and build the things you'll need. There are more than 200 illustrations showing you how to make handy farm devices. You'll learn about the farmer's workshop and tools, running a grindstone, making a dumb waiter, making a cradle, how to clean a well, how to stake out stock, bee keeping, how to transplant trees, how to...
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The Arts & Crafts movement began as an instinctive reaction to the new Industrial Age. Seeking a return to simple craftsmanship, with traditional materials, its influence spread both to Europe and North America, where the term 'craftsman' denoted a traditional style of architecture and interior design prevalent before the 1920s. In England the Arts & Crafts influence upon house building was far-reaching between 1870 and 1914. This was not least because...
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Instructables is back with this compact book focused on a series of projects designed to get you thinking creatively about thinking green. Twenty Instructables illustrate just how simple it can be to make your own backyard chicken coop, or turn a wine barrel into a rainwater collector.
Illustrated with dozens of full-color photographs per project accompanying easy-to-follow instructions, this Instructables collection utilizes the best that the...
Illustrated with dozens of full-color photographs per project accompanying easy-to-follow instructions, this Instructables collection utilizes the best that the...
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Ever wanted a cabin or little cottage in the woods but don't know where to start? With Log Cabins, author William S. Wicks offers clear, practical instructions on how to build your own log cabin-and furnish it, too-while harmonizing the structure's interior and exterior with the surrounding environment. Topics include:
• Location scouting and preparation
• Foundations, tools, and materials
• Roofs and shingles
• Floors, ceilings, and partitions
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