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Install Your Own Solar Panels: Designing and Installing a Photovoltaic System to Power Your Home

Joe Burdick · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Labor and related costs account for more than half of the price of the average home solar installation. But homeowners can save thousands of dollars with this user-friendly manual, which follows the same process professional contractors use. Through detailed directions and step-by-step...
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Wiring Complete: 3rd Edition

Michael W Litchfield · Taunton Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

The third edition of this best-selling volume is a comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use reference for homeowners covering all home wiring situations from the most basic to advanced. Wiring Complete is a highly visual book focused on real world situations faced by homeowners and real...
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The Bee Book

Emma Tennant · Dk Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The Bee Book shows you step-by-step how to create a bee-friendly garden, get started in beekeeping, and harness the power of honey for well-being.Fully illustrated with full-color photographs throughout, this beautiful guide covers everything you need to know to start your own backyard...
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Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers

Annette Goliti Gutierrez · Timber Press
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

Hand-made style for outdoor living Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn't have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric....
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House Beautiful Style Secrets: What Every Room Needs

SOPHIE DONELSON · Abrams
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the country's most popular interior design magazine comes a stylish, in-depth look at what it takes to make any room beautiful. House Beautiful Style Essentials: What Every Room Needs is an inspiring and hardworking handbook that shows readers how to create the rooms of their dreams...
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Plumbing

Steve Cory · The Taunton Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

Stanley's Plumbing: A Homeowner's Guide is a comprehensive, visual handbook packed with step-by-step photographs and authoritative, reliable information. Eventually, every homeowner needs to repair, replace, or upgrade a plumbing fixture. Save heaps of money by learning how to do it yourself....
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How to Window Box: Small-Space Plants to Grow Indoors or Out

Chantal Aida Gordon · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

From the founders of the popular gardening blog The Horticult comes a guide to the window box, the container garden that is by far the most accessible for any skill level, space, or quality of light. The 16 indoor and outdoor projects range from succulents to veggies, and showcase a variety...
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Butterfly Gardening: The North American Butterfly Association Guide

Jane Hurwitz · Princeton University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Flexibound

An indispensable and lavishly illustrated guide to creating a garden that attracts and sustains butterfliesButterfly gardening creates habitats that support butterflies, connecting us with some of the most beautiful creatures in the natural world and bringing new levels of excitement and joy to gardening....
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, Updated 7th Edition: Current with 2017-2020 Electrical Codes

COOL SPRINGS PRESS. · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

For more than ten years, BLACK DECKER The Complete Guide to Wiring has been the bestselling home wiring manual in North America. Now with more than two million copies in print, this is the home reference book more DIYers choose than any other for many reasons. As the most current wiring...
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Herb Gardening: How to Prepare the Soil, Choose Your Plants, and Care For, Harvest, and Use Your Herbs

Melissa Melton Snyder · Countryman Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A comprehensive guide to starting an herb garden, written for beginners The consummate beginners guide for anyone interested in starting an herb garden. It will explain, in simple terms, everything you need to know about choosing the site, preparing the soil, choosing the plants, caring...
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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

Tracy Disabato-Aust · Timber Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice." - Real Simple Gardeners everywhere have benefited from the trusty advice, reassuring tone, and helpful illustrations of The Well-Tended Perennial Garden. Now this completely revised third edition introduces a new generation...
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Black & Decker Wood Floors: Hardwood - Laminate - Bamboo - Wood Tile - More

COOL SPRINGS PRESS. · Pepperbox Press Ltd.
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate floors can enhance the beauty of any room in a home. Wood creates visual warmth, is available in a wide variety of colors and grain patterns, and is durable enough to last a half century or more when installed and maintained properly.New variations...
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Outdoor Woodworking

GMC Editors · GMC Publications
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

Outdoor Woodworking is an impressive new title containing over 30 projects, all ideal for the garden, patio or deck. There are some projects ideal for those just starting out in woodworking and others that will challenge even the experienced woodworker. All of the projects include clear...
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Turned Toys: 12 Fun Projects to Create for Children

Mark Baker · The Taunton Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

If you have woodturning experience, now you can create something truly special for family and friends. These beautiful hand-crafted toys are as enjoyable to make as they are to play with. Clear step-by-step instructions, detailed photographs, and easy-to-follow diagrams start with simple...
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Better Homes and Gardens Flea Market Style: Fresh Ideas for Your Vintage Finds

Samantha Thorpe · Better Homes and Gardens Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

The Indispensible Guide to Scoring, Using, Collecting, and Displaying Vintage Flea Market Finds Flea markets, Craigslist, and even a neighbor's curb can yield vintage treasures that make a house sparkle. But knowing what to do with those pieces can be intimidating. This innovative book...
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