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Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow

Tara Austen Weaver · Ballantine Books
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

For fans of Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving memoir of rediscovering, reinventing, and reconnecting, as an estranged mother and daughter come together to revive a long-abandoned garden and ultimately their relationship and themselves. Peeling paint, stained floors, vined-over windows,...
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The Aromatherapy Garden: Growing Fragrant Plants for Happiness and Well-Being

Kathi Keville · Timber Press, 2016.
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

Immerse yourself in the healing power of fragrance! The Aromatherapy Garden explains how fragrant plants can be as therapeutic as they are intoxicating, and how easy it is to add this captivating element to gardens large and small. It reveals the scents, secrets, and science behind fragrant...
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Upstyle Your Furniture: Techniques and Creative Inspiration to Style Your Home

Stephanie Jones · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Owning one-of-a-kind, bespoke furniture is no longer a privilege of the wealthy or the realm of professional designers. Upstyle Your Furniture shows the rest of us how easy it is to create custom pieces of furniture with a bit of imagination and easy-to-find materials. Why spend a fortune...
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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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Home for Now

Joanna Thornhill · Cico Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Styling and DIY advice on creating a beautiful home, whether you're making over or making do. More people are renting now than ever before, but the rental market remains surprisingly unflexible, with many tenants banned from making even the simplest alterations, such as hanging a picture...
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Oh Joy!: 60 Ways to Create & Give Joy

Joy Cho · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful, colorful, inspired guide to help anyone bring joy and whimsy into their lives with stylish projects, from home decor to food to fashion, from the popular Oh Joy blogger and Pinterest sensation.Thirteen million Pinterest members look to Joy Cho, a designer, blogger, mother,...
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Homegrown Tea: An Illustrated Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Blending Teas and Tisanes

Cassie Liversidge · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge...
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Handmade Lampshades

Natalia Price-Cabrera · GMC Publications
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

This book is bursting with inspirational images, tips and ideas. Sixteen contemporary projects are covered in useful step-by-step tutorials. There is a detailed chapter dedicated solely to the different techniques you will need to know in order to make a fabric lampshade for yourself--techniques...
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The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes

Justina Blakeney · Stewart, Tabori and Chang; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In The New Bohemians, LA-based designer Justina Blakeney defines the New Bohemians as creative individuals who are boutique owners and bloggers, entrepreneurs and ex-pats, artists and urban farmers. They embrace free-spirited, no-rules lifestyles and apply that attitude to all areas of their...
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Clean Design: Wellness for your Lifestyle

Robin Wilson · Greenleaf Book Group Press

Designer Robin Wilson shares tips and tricks to detoxify and beautify your interior spaces and to help you create a more stylish and healthy home. Author Robin Wilson, plagued by allergies and asthma since infancy, has become an expert in Clean Design--creating allergen-reduced home environments...
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A Wilder Life: A Season-by-Season Guide to Getting in Touch with Nature

Celestine Maddy · Artisan
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

In our technology-driven, workaday world, connecting with nature has never before been more essential. A Wilder Life, a beautiful oversized lifestyle book by the team behind the popular Wilder Quarterly, gives readers indispensable ideas for interacting with the great outdoors. Learn to plant...
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