Helmuth shows you how to have a lovely home without a huge budget, without the help of a personal designer or an "eye for design." She reveals insider tips and a tried-and-tested method for decorating on a budget.

"Build fashionable, functional, inexpensive indoor and backyard furniture--even if you're a complete beginner. These are realistic projects for the average weekend warrior that require no great skills, just normal tools you already have and easy-to-buy materials available at any home store,"--

"Discover the sublime pleasure and endless rewards of being self-sufficient. In two smartly designed and straightforward encyclopedias of DIY, Home Ec for Everyone and Shop Class for Everyone (previously published together as The Useful Book), here's everything you need to know to fix it, cook it, make it, clean it, build it, and sew it yourself. Each title features dozens of essential skills, practical how-tos, and projects, each explained and illustrated...

In a household with children, disasters lurk around every corner. Laundry soap in the dishwasher. Baseballs launched through the neighbor's window. Heads stuck between stair railings. Sandwiches in the VCR. What's a parent to do? Mom, the Toilet's Clogged! takes on common kid-induced household problems and provides hands-on, rational solutions that work. Offering practical and funny advice in the bestselling tradition of The Worst Case Scenario Survival...

"Organize and style your home using home-decorating and organization expert Katie Holdefehr's modern, chic, and simple-to-achieve design tips and tricks. Whether giving a studio apartment a makeover to maximize every inch of space for storage, creating a functional and streamlined kitchen, or revamping a bedroom into a relaxing sanctuary, home design expert Katie Holdefehr will be your personal designer throughout each step in Embrace Your Space....

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...

The host of the popular YouTube channel "Dad, How Do I?" shares his story of overcoming a difficult childhood with the strength of faith and family, and offers inspiration and hope as well as providing fifty practical DYI instructions that are illustrated with helpful line drawings.

"A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ec teachers, if you had them. Features practical projects and how-tos, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, relevant charts, sidebars, lists, and handy toolboxes. There's a kitchen crash...

Your A to Z guide to marvelous, multiple uses for everyday items you have in your house.

How does language shape identity? What role does handwriting play in the digital age? HANZI encourages audiences around the world to revisit and rethink their own culture, language and identity. HANZI explores international design, visual culture, and identity through the lens of modern Chinese typography.