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Box Making
Box Making

Guild of Master Craftsman Publications. · Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Box Making is an exciting new title aimed at avid woodworkers of all levels. Packed with 25 projects, there are designs to suit all tastes - from traditional hinged jewelry box designs to boxes with more elaborate and sophisticated opening mechanisms such as a quatrefoil box. Many of the projects...
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The Life In Your Garden: Gardening for Biodiversity
The Life In Your Garden: Gardening for Biodiversity

Reeser Manley · Tilbury House Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Gardeners can play a significant role in helping to sustain native plant diversity and providing refuge for threatened species of insects and sanctuary for birds, amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals.Horticulture experts Reeser Manley and Marjorie Peronto share their own experiences...
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Art Nouveau Architecture
Art Nouveau Architecture

R. Beauclair · Dover Publications
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback

"This is an amazing book. Beautiful drawings!" - Romancing MyselfPublished in Paris in 1902, these rare plates offer a unique source of details of the era's "modern" architecture. The 58 full-color images originally appeared in a short-lived periodical from the height...
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The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors: From the 17th Century to the Present
The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors: From the 17th Century to the Present

Judith Gura · Bloomsbury
Pages: 479
Format: Print book

This compact, heavily-illustrated guide makes it a snap to identify period styles from the 17th century to the present day. The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference that combines depth of content with ease of use. Including examples and analysis...
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Lives of the Great Gardeners
Lives of the Great Gardeners

Stephen Anderton · W W Norton
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Entertaining and accessible -- the lives of the men and women, many of them multitalented artists, who created some of the world's most extraordinary gardens, and whose legacy continues to inspireThroughout history, great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic...
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Harvest: Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants
Harvest: Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants

Stefani Bittner · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Harvest is a beautifully photographed guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47 unexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, and more.Every garden--not just vegetable plots--can produce a bountiful...
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Microfarming for Profit: From Garden to Glory
Microfarming for Profit: From Garden to Glory

Dave DeWitt · Torrey House Press
Format: Book

NOTE Products binding problem now fixed. This useful, entertaining guide gives prospective microfarmers the dirt on realistic essentials for turning a garden into a moneymaking enterprise?The author advises on such basics as business plans and sales techniques profiles a range of actual...
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Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life
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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Microgreens: How to Grow Nature's Own Superfood
Microgreens: How to Grow Nature's Own Superfood

Fionna Hill · Firefly Books
Pages: 119
Format: Print book

"The book is informative and accessible, delivering in a buoyant voice all you need to know about the ultimate in local eating -- making a meal of houseplants. It is nicely illustrated as well, with tantalizing photographs of microgreens at every stage, from seed to planting to plate....
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Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style
Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style

Mark D Sikes · Rizzoli
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The first book from interior designer Mark D. Sikes is a celebration of American style today, showcasing chic and accessible ideas for every home. Modern and unfussy, Mark D. Sikes's interiors are classic takes on California indoor/outdoor living, with natural fibers and crisp coloration,...
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Plants You Can't Kill: 101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners
Plants You Can't Kill: 101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners

Stacy Tornio · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

"I kill everything I plant."Does this sound like you or someone you know? Give yourself a pat on the back because admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. And lucky for you, you can easily turn your brown thumb into a green one with the help of Plants You Can't...
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Woodwork Projects for Your Garden and Porch: Simple, Functional, and Rustic Décor You Can Build Yourself
Woodwork Projects for Your Garden and Porch: Simple, Functional, and Rustic Décor You Can Build Yourself

Mattias Wenblad · W W Norton
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Give your garden a unique, do-it-yourself charm with practical and decorative woodwork projects.Do you have a bare, uninspired garden or porch? Instead of overhauling and reconstructing the entire design, simply transform it with twenty-six essential and practical woodwork projects that...
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Year of No Clutter: A Memoir
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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Ode to Color: The Ten Essential Palettes for Living and Design
Ode to Color: The Ten Essential Palettes for Living and Design

Lori Weitzner · Harpercollins
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Internationally renowned textile designer Lori Weitzner presents a novel, layered perspective on the use and significance of color in design and culture in this spectacular treasury illustrated with 225 full-color images.Ode to Color, a stunning anthology by renowned and award-winning textile...
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Modern bonsai parctice : 501 principles of good bonsai horticulture
Modern bonsai parctice : 501 principles of good bonsai horticulture

Larry Morton · Larry Morton
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

The most current, useful information on growing Bonsai. Fresh, practical, definitive, comprehensive reference guide to the finest art of horticulture: growing miniature trees. Common sense bonsai answers separating myth from fact with depth and detail. Appropriate for both bonsai hobbyists...
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