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Simply Clean: The Proven Method for Keeping Your Home Organized, Clean, and Beautiful in Just 10 Minutes a Day

Becky Rapinchuk · Touchstone
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From the cleaning and homekeeping expert and creator of the wildly popular Clean Mama blog comes a simple and accessible cleaning guide with a proven step-by-step schedule for tidying a home in just ten minutes a day.Becky Rapinchuk, the "Clean Mama," understands that many people...
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Container Gardening Complete: Creative Projects for Growing Vegetables and Flowers in Small Spaces

Jessica Walliser · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The ideal book for urban gardeners, indoor gardeners, and vegetable gardeners, Container Gardening Complete is a thorough visual guide that will get you growing quickly! Whether you are growing vegetables, fruits, or flowers on an apartment balcony; creating a small vegetable garden for personal...
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Zero Waste: Simple Life Hacks to Drastically Reduce Your Trash

SHIA SU · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 168
Format: Flexibound

Easy and Effective Strategies to Jumpstart a Sustainable, Waste-Free Lifestyle We have a worldwide trash epidemic. The average American disposes of 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, and our landfills hold 254 million tons of waste. What if there were a simple -- and fun -- way for you to make...
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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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Countertop Gardens: Easily Grow Kitchen Edibles Indoors for Year-Round Enjoyment

Shelley Levis · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Whether you have a huge yard in a warm climate or a tiny apartment in a city with harsh winters, you can grow edibles year-round in the comfort and convenience of your own kitchen!Countertop Gardens will make you an expert in the world of indoor gardening, walking you through the challenges,...
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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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Idiot's Guides: Tiny House Designing, Building, & Living

ALPHA. · Alpha
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Do you have what it takes to live tiny? Take the first step to achieving the dream of designing, building, and living in a tiny house (typically between 100-400 square feet) . Idiot's Guides: Tiny House Designing, Building, and Living is the one-stop guide into this innovative concept...
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Garages 2nd Edition: Design, Build, Remodel & Maintain Your Garage - Includes 9 Complete Garage Plans

Cool Springs Press · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

If you are planning to build a new garage, this is the one-stop guide where you'll find several new and complete sets of building plans for garages of the most popular sizes and styles. If building a new garage is where you want to go, the BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide to Garages will show...
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The Modern Organic Home: 100 DIY Cleaning Products, Organization Tips, and Household Hacks

NATALIE WISE · Good Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Home is a haven, a place of refuge. But did you know it might be making you sick? If your home is cluttered, overwhelming, and full of chemicals, it's time to detox. The Modern Organic Home helps you de-clutter and clean with natural, homemade products that are healthy for you and your...
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A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life

Tara Button · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Modern life overwhelms us with throwaway stuff like appliances built to break and clothes that only enchant for a season. But it doesn't have to be this way! In this edition of A Life Less Throwaway updated specifically for the American market, Tara Button teaches you a revolutionary way of viewing...
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The Joy of Hygge: How to Bring Everyday Pleasure and Danish Coziness into Your Life

Jonny Jackson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 140
Format: Hardcover

* Hygge (pronounced "hoo-gah") is a Danish word that is inspiring an entire stress-free, slow-moving, relaxed, comfortable lifestyle. It's the feeling of being cozy. * Contains recipes for comfort foods, instructions for cozy and warm crafts, inspirational quotes, and tips...
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Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life

Peter Walsh · Rodale
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Sorting through a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful process that millions of Americans confront every year. The need to downsize often arises at a momentous life change, whether you're an empty nester or retiree selling your family home, a newlywed...
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Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century, Revised & Updated

Dick Strawbridge · Dk Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century makes it easy to be green and helps you live a more simple, cleaner lifestyle.Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century is a manual for the modern age to help anyone take the proper steps to live more sustainably. This informative, practical guide, written...
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Plant Style: How to Greenify Your Space

Alana Langan · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Expert advice on how to make your home fashionably lush with greenery Ferns are back in the bathroom, cacti are sitting on plant stands and hoyas are cascading from hangers. Indoor plants are the ultimate indoor accessory. Softening interiors and readily available, they are a stylist's...
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Code Check Electrical: An Illustrated Guide to Wiring a Safe House

Redwood Kardon · Taunton Press
Pages: 32
Format: Spiral-bound

Spiral bound, with durable laminated pages, the 8th edition of Code Check Electrical is the perfect on-the-job resource for electricians, builders, remodelers, and building inspectors dealing with electrical work. Completely updated to the 2017 National Electrical Code and the 2015 International...
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