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Handmade Houseplants: Remarkably Realistic Plants You Can Make with Paper

Corrie Beth Hogg · Timber Press
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

Houseplants are everywhere - on Instagram, in the media, and in trendy homes all over the world. In Handmade Houseplants, expert crafter and tastemaker Corrie Beth Hogg offers a no-water necessary alternative: plants made from paper! This stylish guide includes step-by-step instructions...
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Popular Mechanics The Ultimate Tool Book: Every Tool You Need to Own

Popular Mechanics · Hearst
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the trustworthy experts at Popular Mechanics comes the definitive guide to hand tools and how to use them.

This tool . . . or that? Learn how to choose the right one for tackling any home project and completing it quickly, correctly, and efficiently. The editors of Popular...
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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...

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The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife

Nancy Lawson · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists...
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Living with Air Plants: A Beginner's Guide to Growing and Displaying Tillandsia

Yoshiharu Kashima (Protoleaf) · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Living with Air Plants is the perfect introduction to the world of Tillandsia and the many ways they can be used to design and upgrade your home or work space. It is the work of a prominent horticulturist and a design, lifestyle and gardening expert from Japan, and displays a wonderful...
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Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seeds and Stories

John Coykendall · LSU Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

For over four decades, John Coykendall's passion has been preserving the farm heritage of a small community in rural southeastern Louisiana. A Tennessee native and longtime master gardener at Blackberry Farm, Coykendall has become a celebrity in a growing movement that places a premium...
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The Pallet Book: DIY Projects for the Home, Garden, and Homestead

Chris Peterson · Voyageur Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

The Pallet Book is an inspiring and ingenious project-oriented book for the home DIY enthusiast! Author Chris Peterson presents everything the enterprising handyperson needs to know to reclaim and reuse pallets in innovative, useful ways. Just some of the projects included are: -A handy...
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Practical Cactus and Succulent Book: The Definitive Guide to Choosing, Displaying, and Caring for more than 200 Cacti

Fran Bailey · DK
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Choose the right plant from 200 varieties of cacti and succulents, and learn how to grow and show them off with help from this comprehensive guide.How can you encourage your bunny ear cactus to flower and flourish? What is the best method for propagating an Echeveria or Kalanchoe? What...
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Woodworker's Handbook: The Beginner's Reference to Tools, Materials, and Skills, Plus Essential Projects to Make

Roger Horwood · Fox Chapel Publishing
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

The complete reference handbook for DIY home woodworking!Must-have guide for beginners and experienced craftsmen looking to brush up on their skills5 step-by-step projects to put your skills to the testLearn the basics, tools, and techniques of the craftEssential information on different...
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Mid-Century Modern Interiors: The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America

Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand · Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important...
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

MARGARETA MAGNUSSON · Scribner
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.

In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called dostädning, do meaning "death" and städning meaning "cleaning."...
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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty

Lisa Mason Ziegler · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Fight garden pests and increase your yields the natural way with this tried and true technique! Planting vegetables and flowers together is one of the oldest ways to create a healthy, bountiful garden, but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers will...
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An Edited Life: Simple Steps to Streamlining Life, at Work and at Home

Anna Newton · Quadrille Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Declutter every aspect of your life -- from your wardrobe, exercise schedule and food budget to your phone, bookshelves and beauty regime -- with this realistic guide to getting neat and keeping things that way. Anna Newton is just trying to balance work, her friends, her family, her husband...
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Family Handyman Make It Last: 750 Tips to Get the Most Out of Everything in Your House

Family Handyman · Reader's Digest
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Repair, Reuse, Remodel

The best way to cut home expenses - and frustrations - is to prevent problems from happening in the first place. With The Family Handyman Make It Last, see how easy it is to avoid appliance breakdowns, keep your furnace humming and avoid expensive water...
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Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating

Lauren Liess · ABRAMS
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Lauren Liess, an interior designer and founder of the popular blog Pure Style Home, fuses her love of design and the great outdoors into all her work. In Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating, her first book, Lauren invites readers to bring nature inside by mixing the textures of natural...
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