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"Dream Home is a comprehensive source, covering the ins and outs of buying, selling, and renovating a house, with hundreds of full-color photos throughout. The Scott brothers cover numerous topics including the hidden costs of moving, savvy negotiating tactics, and determining your home must-haves. Other handy features include a calendar of key dates for finding the best deals on home products and a cheat sheet of worth-it fix-its. Look inside for...

Find extra room in your home and "inspiration for the storage-impaired" with these projects from the master carpenter and DIY Network host. Karl Champley offers fifty home improvement projects to maximize space in any dwelling, no matter how big or small. Keeping an eye on style and economy, Champley outlines tools, materials, and techniques for searching out and using hidden-away space to achieve incredible results. Learn how to carve out shelving...

Thirty-something Gretchen Hanover becomes a first-time house-flipper. As ideas go, it's daring and genius. She'll take out a short-term loan, buy a fixer-upper, renovate it, resell it, and use the profit for an adorable house of her own. But Gretchen's plans to flip quickly flop when the house turns out to be in worse shape than she expected. She is relying on her retired contractor-father, but he wants to draw in his carpenter friend Noah Campbell....

Home Sweet Remodeled Home. The American dream of owning a home and then buying or building a bigger and better one is no longer a sure thing. Millions of homeowners stymied by the housing market and the economy have embraced remodeling instead. In this timely book, maverick architect-author Duo Dickinson offers hope on how to get the home you want from the house you have. He shares his passion for saving money without sacrificing good design and offers...

Expand your home without sacrificing its soul. In New Rooms for Old Houses, architect Frank Shirley offers a masterclass in designing additions that honor the character and craftsmanship of traditional homes. Drawing on decades of experience and the guiding principle of harmony, Shirley walks readers through the essential elements of thoughtful expansion-balance, transitions, public and private space, and material integrity. This richly...

"People keep a house alive, not the other way around. Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she's bought and renovated since her divorce almost three years ago. She's also experienced the thrill of making each one into a home. Her newest project is a dilapidated, century-old house just a few blocks from Geneva Lake, Wisconsin. Time and neglect, along with rats and raccoons, have ravaged it inside and out. Only Alex...

When a dead body is found on the property of the house she just bought and she is accused of the crime, would-be house flipper Whitney Whitaker launches her own investigation to find the real killer.

Rachel Simon's historic home on a charming tree-lined street was hardly ideal. It was too small, too dark, and there was a gaping hole in the dining room ceiling. So when the house is burglarized, Rachel and her husband, Hal, agree it's time to sell. But in a difficult housing market, and with Hal being an architect, they soon realize: Why leave when they can renovate?Rachel prepares herself for the disagreements and disasters that can accompany a...

Peter and his half brother Adrian's father is at his wits' end renovating Old Splinter, a formerly lavish estate now in ruins, the brothers turn to a mysterious local legend, the wishing claw, to help, but Peter soon learns that every wish comes with a dark and dangerous price hidden within the crumbling estate.

Even at Christmastime, Shannon is more spackle than sparkle, which is why she leaps at the chance to transform a grand old Victorian mansion into ten charming apartments for homeless families. Filled with the spirit of the season, all of Lighthouse Cove turns out to help-including her best friends, a troupe of far-from-angelic Santa Claus impersonators, and her father, Jack. But their merriment is soon dashed by a heated scuffle between Jack and the...