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Beginner Gardening Step by Step: A Visual Guide to Yard and Garden Basics

DK · DK
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Is your lawn full of weeds? Are your plants diseased? Is your flower bed forlorn? Do you long to create an outdoor space you can enjoy with friends--or even a garden you can show off with pride?This book shows you the basics you need to get your yard or green space under control and keep...
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Life in the Garden

PENELOPE LIVELY · Viking
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards...
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Popular Mechanics How to Fix Anything: Essential Home Repairs Anyone Can Do

POPULAR MECHANICS. · Hearst
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

For any home repair, big or small, homeowners can turn to this practical and portable reference. Got a squeaky floor or a rattling door? Is your grout a color you don't recognize anymore? From quick fixes like linking broken chains and patching drywall to more involved projects like replacing...
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Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess

Rachel Hoffman · Griffin
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our current living situation as a "f*cking mess" that we're desperate to fix. Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems. The ones that...
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Handpicked: Simple, Sustainable, and Seasonal Flower Arrangements

INGRID CAROZZI · HARRY N ABRAMS
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Brooklyn-based florist Ingrid Carozzi reveals her secrets for creating flower arrangements that are modern, original, and organic in style. Organized by season, the book presents simple step-by-step instruction (how to measure, cut, and place each bloom) for making more than 35 arrangements....
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Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You

Julie Morgenstern · Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The bestselling organizational guru takes on the ultimate time-management challenge -- parenting, from toddlers to teens -- with concrete ways to structure and spend true quality time with your kids. Would you ever take a job without a job description, let alone one that requires a lifetime...
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Country Living Salvage Style: Decorate with Vintage Finds

Leslie Linsley · Hearst
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Salvage style - decorating with repurposed and vintage items like wicker furniture, cast-iron tubs, polished marble, industrial pendant lights, and even tractor seats - has become a chic way to create unique, personal rooms. By reclaiming honest materials and collectibles, large and small,...
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Small Gas Engine Repair, Fourth Edition

PAUL DEMPSEY · MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The bestselling step-by-step guide to gas engine maintenance and repair - updated for today's do-it-yourselferThe Fourth Edition of Small Gas Engine Repair shows readers how to troubleshoot and repair virtually any type of small gas engine used in garden equipment, chain saws, pumps,...
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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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Perfect French Country: Inspirational interiors from rural France

Ros Byam Shaw · Ryland Peters & Small
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In Perfect French Country Ros Byam Shaw celebrates relaxed rural France at its finest, visiting timeless and beautiful French country homes that feature ancient beams, stone fireplaces, paneled rooms, and attics under steeply-pitched roofs. In a busy modern world that seems increasingly...
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Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave

JOANNA GAINES · Harper Design
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In her design book, Homebody: A Guide To Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. This comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities and your instincts,...
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Year of No Clutter: A Memoir

Eve O Schaub · Sourcebooks
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every corner and on every surface in her house. When she pledges to tackle the worst offender, her horror of a "Hell Room," she anticipates finally being able to throw away all of the unnecessary...
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Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes

Nicole Curtis · Artisan
Pages: 239
Format: Print book

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller For the first time, Nicole Curtis, the star of the megahit HGTV and DIY Network show Rehab Addict, reveals her private struggles, her personal victories, and the inspiring lessons we can all learn from them. Part celebrity memoir and part self-help...
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How to Pack: Travel Smart for Any Trip

Hitha Palepu · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

It's time to pack perfect. Every trip, every time. Your journey starts here. When you travel, the journey is just as important as the destination - and packing is the first step. In How to Pack, Hitha Palepu, a former consultant who has traveled more than 500,000 cumulative miles...
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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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