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Detox Your Home: A Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life and Bringing Health into Your Home

Christine Dimmick · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover

Cancer affects 1 in 2 persons, and nearly everyone has an autoimmune-related disease or allergy. We live in a world where the incidence of illness grows as fast as the GDP. Industrialization has created a world that puts products before human and environmental health. Exercise and eating...
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Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair - 4th Edition

Black & Decker Corporation (Towson · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

Learn how to do all of your own home repairs with this comprehensive, visual guidebook! When something breaks in your house, finding and hiring an expensive repairman shouldn't be the only option for homeowners. Next time your faucet springs a leak or that bedroom doorknob punches a hole...
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Unearthed: Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden

Alexandra Risen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this moving memoir, a woman digs into a garden and into the past and finds secrets, beauty, and acceptance. Alex's father dies just as she and her husband buy a nondescript house set atop an acre of wilderness that extends into a natural gorge in the middle of the city. Choked with weeds...
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City Farmhouse Style: Designs for a Modern Country Life

KIM LEGGETT · Abrams
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Come along on the hunt to coveted country sources and the best secret antiquing spots, and learn how to create country farmhouse style in your city dwelling. Author Kim Leggett is the creator of City Farmhouse, an interior design business, pop-up antiquing fairs, and vintage store. She is also...
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Plant Society: Create an Indoor Oasis for your Urban Space

Jason Chongue · Hardie Grant
Pages: 191
Format: Flexibound

Plant Society is your 101 guide on how to love and keep indoor plants. Even if you've killed every house plant in the past, plant-cultivator and stylist Jason Chongue will show you that it's really not that difficult. Covering everything from basic plant care and re-potting, to plants suited...
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Classical Principles for Modern Design: Lessons from Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman's The Decoration of Houses

THOMAS JAYNE · The Monacelli Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Interior designer and decorative arts historian Thomas Jayne takes on the redoubtable Edith Wharton and her co-author Ogden Codman, whose 1897 book The Decoration of Houses is acknowledged as the Bible of American interior design. Wharton and Codman advocated for classical simplicity and balance,...
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Ditch the City and Go Country: How to Master the Art of Rural Life From a Former City Dweller

ALISSA MORRIS · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

The No-Nonsense Guide For Country Dreamers Though moving to the country takes determination, every ex-urbanite says it was the best decision they ever made. The same rings true for Alissa Hessler, who relocated from Seattle to rural Maine years ago and has never looked back. In this book...
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Handmade Birdhouses and Feeders: 35 projects to attract birds into your garden

Michele Mckee Orsini · CICO Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Build and craft a beautiful birdhouse or feeder to decorate your backyard, and attract a few feathered friends. Handmade Birdhouses and Feeders will teach you everything you need to know to create a safe haven for your feathery friends, with 35 different designs to choose from, and useful...
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The Big Book of Small Home Plans: Over 360 Home Plans Under 1200 Square Feet

Design America Inc. · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Select from a catalog of more than 360 expertly prepared plans for building small homes - 1,200 square feet or less!Over 360 plans to select from for building a variety of small homes 1,200 square feet or underEasy-to-follow construction blueprints and materials lists are available for each...
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Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener

DEBORAH L MARTIN · Rodale Books
Pages: 720
Format: Paperback

Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years, and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This...
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Climate-Wise Landscaping: Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future

SUSAN REED · New Society Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Predictions about future effects of climate change range from mild to dire - but we're already seeing warmer winters, hotter summers, and more extreme storms. Proposed solutions often seem expensive and complex, and can leave us as individuals at a loss, wondering what, if anything, can be done.Sue...
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Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff

Dana K. White · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff - you can get rid of clutter for good!While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, real women with real families who are constantly growing and changing simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home...
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domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home

Domino. · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From the editors of domino magazine comes your essential guide to discovering your personal style and creating a space you love.Since launching in 2005, domino has attracted a fiercely loyal following, which looks to the brand as the definitive source for decorating and style. The brand's...
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Fix Your Garden: Get Your Outdoor Space Blooming in No Time at All

Jane Moseley · Portico
Pages: 111
Format: Print book

Don't know what to do with a messy garden or bleak-looking balcony? Want to stake your claim on a little corner of a shared garden? No gardening experience whatsoever? This book is the perfect solution. Packed with tips and tricks to get your green fingers going, this beautifully illustrated...
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Composting Basics: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started

Eric Ebeling · Stackpole Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

How to recycle household waste to make quality compostYou don't need a science degree or a shed full of sophisticated equipment to make quality compost. What you need to get started is the know-how provided in this basic how-to book along a little elbow grease and the pile of organic materials...
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