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Decorating with Plants: What to Choose, Ways to Style, and How to Make Them Thrive

Baylor Chapman · Artisan
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Houseplants are more popular than ever before - especially with millennials, who are setting up their homes for the first time and discovering that nothing can add energy, style, and that essential "lived-in-ness" to their spaces better than a little bit of green. Whether it's...
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Novel Interiors: Living in Enchanted Rooms Inspired by Literature

Lisa Borgnes Giramonti · Potter Style
Format: Hardcover

For those who have ever lost themselves in the stylish worlds of novels like Sense and Sensibility, The Age of Innocence, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and countless others, this design book embraces the fantasy of time and place, showing you how to bring some of those...
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Stand Up and Garden: The no-digging, no-tilling, no-stooping approach to growing vegetables and herbs

Mary Moss-Sprague · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Focusing on containers, trellises, and raised beds, this book shows how everyone can garden, including those with physical limitations like arthritis or location limitations like apartment-dwellers without backyards. Knowing where our food comes from is a huge issue; food safety and costs...
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Refresh Your Home: 500 Simple Projects and Tips to Save Money, Update, and Renovate

Editors of The Family Handyman · Readers Digest
Format: Paperback

Isnt it about time to put the you in do-it-yourself Refresh Your Home is filled with hundreds of easy smart tips techniques and projects that will save you energy money and frustration And if you are a seasoned DIYer youll find plenty of inspiration and useful information Did you know that...
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Five-Plant Gardens: 52 Ways to Grow a Perennial Garden with Just Five Plants

Nancy J. Ondra · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback

Selecting perennial plants can be overwhelming - there are hundreds of choices, and it's difficult to know when your plants will bloom, whether they'll thrive in sunny or shady spots, and which ones will look well together. In Five-Plant Gardens, Nancy Ondra eliminates the guesswork...

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The First Apartment Book: Cool Design for Small Spaces

Kyle Schuneman · Potter Style; 1ST edition
Format: Paperback

Star designer Kyle Schuneman offers bold ideas for achieving big style in small spaces—on any budget.A first apartment allows you to finally do what you want with your own space, but it can be tricky to decorate. Luckily, twenty-seven-year-old decorating prodigy Kyle Schuneman knows...
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The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

Rick Darke · Timber Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it's a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding...
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The Inspired Houseplant: Transform Your Home with Indoor Plants from Kokedama to Terrariums and Water Gardens to Edibles

Jen Stearns · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate go-to guide for aspiring indoor gardeners, this book offers inspiration and instruction to envision and create your own gorgeous in-home garden spaces.

With plentiful images and a distinctly modern and sophisticated feel, this book imparts both easy-to-follow advice...
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Knack Clean Home, Green Home: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Eco-Friendly Homekeeping

Kim Delaney · Knack; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Toxin-free techniques and time-saving tips to make cleaning easier for you and less harmful to the planet.
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The Smart Approach to Home Decorating, 3rd Edition

Editors of Creative Homeowner · Creative Homeowner; Third edition
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The Smart Approach® to Home Decorating, 3rd Edition is a complete introduction into the subject of interior design. In words and pictures, it explains everything a homeowner needs to know to design and decorate a house with professional results. Topics covered in the book include explanations...
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Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun

Niki Jabbour · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Best-selling author Niki Jabbour invites you to shake up your vegetable garden with an intriguing array of 238 plants from around the world. With her lively "Like this? Then try this!" approach, Jabbour encourages you to start with what you know and expand your repertoire to try related...
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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs

PETER WOHLLEBEN · Dutton
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.

The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.

In...
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