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The Beginner's Guide to Building a Garden One Project at a Time: 326 Fast, Easy, Affordable Ways to Transform Your Yard

Sally Roth · Timber Press
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

A fresh approach and simple way to transform your yard! The prospect of revamping a yard is daunting. Where do you start? How do all the various areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden simplifies the process by showing you how to spend...
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Garden Renovation: Transform Your Yard Into the Garden of Your Dreams

Bobbie Schwartz · Timber Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

A do-it-yourself guide to a complete garden rehab Gardens, just like houses, sometimes need makeovers. The changes can be as minor as replacing a shrub or as major as pulling everything up and starting from scratch. No matter the size of your space or the scope of the project, the sage...
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Junk Beautiful: Furniture ReFreshed: 30 Clever Furniture Projects to Transform Your Home

Sue Whitney · Taunton Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Re-using and re-inventing vintage castoffs as home furnishings take center stage in today's home decor, as these one-of-a-kind treasures create uniquely personal spaces. Best-selling author and junking maven Sue Whitney unleashes her JUNKMARKET Style on furniture and accessories that make...
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Woodworking with Hand Tools: Tools, Techniques & Projects

Eden Phillpotts · Taunton Press
Pages: 19
Format: Paperback

For woodworkers, hand tools put the emphasis on the process of woodworking rather than the result. Yet hand tools also are essential to the highest level of craftsmanship, bringing a refinement to work that machines alone cannot produce. Whether using hand tools alone as a source of pleasure,...
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Black & Decker Wood Floors: Hardwood - Laminate - Bamboo - Wood Tile - More

COOL SPRINGS PRESS. · Pepperbox Press Ltd.
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate floors can enhance the beauty of any room in a home. Wood creates visual warmth, is available in a wide variety of colors and grain patterns, and is durable enough to last a half century or more when installed and maintained properly.New variations...
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Wildlife in Your Garden: Planting and Landscaping to Create a Backyard Sanctuary

Karen Lanier · i-5 Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Imagine a thriving garden in your backyard, bursting with vibrantly colored blooms and lush green leaves, shaded by tall trees. Now imagine the same garden, alive with buzzing and flapping and chirping and croaking. Imagine the ecological impact of encouraging natural pollinators. Imagine...
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Laura Bohn: Ways of Seeing

Laura Bohn · Pointed Leaf Press
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover

A monograph on a leading voice of interior design: Laura Bohn, 'Queen of soft-modern'The foreword is by Cindy Allen, the editor in chief of Interior Design magazineLaura Bohn's set designs for the Year of the Dragon movie and Nurse Jackie (television show) are included in the bookLaura...
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The Spirit of Stone: 101 Practical & Creative Stonescaping Ideas for Your Garden

Jan Johnsen · St. Lynn's Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Stone in a garden adds an authentic feeling that nothing else can match. Whether it is a low wall, a standing stone, a dry stream or a walk, stone enlivens a space and adds a sense of permanence. Until recently, stone was an overlooked element in the landscape, but now we are rediscovering...
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Loose Leaf: Plants - Flowers - Projects - Inspiration

Wona Bae · Hardie Grant Books
Pages: 191
Format: Print book

Showstopping floristry and plant installations, with projects to recreate at homeExploding off the page with astonishing beauty and style, here are some of the world's best in contemporary floral sculpture and installation to inspire your own creations at home. Alongside the superb...
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Tiny Houses in the City

Mimi Zeiger · Rizzoli
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A presentation of micro-scaled contemporary residences that demonstrate domesticity can be both compact and beautiful. How we live in cities - smaller, denser, smarter - is at the heart of Tiny Houses in the City. Urban areas across the globe are experiencing a renaissance, with once-forgotten...
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The Food Forest Handbook: Design and Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden

Michelle Czolba · New Society
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

A food forest is a productive landscape developed around a mix of trees and perennials. Rooted in permaculture principles, this integrated approach to gardening incorporates a variety of plants such as fruit and nut trees, shrubs, vines, and perennial herbs and vegetables. Food forests...
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The Wildlife Gardener

KATE BRADBURY · White Owl
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

The Wildlife Gardner is a book which helps you to create wildlife habitats in your very own garden, and is very handily split into sections on shelter, food and water. Kate gives advice on the best nectar and pollen plants to grow, dos and don'ts of bird feeding and organic methods...
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Making Midcentury Modern

Christopher Kennedy · Gibbs Smith
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Midcentury design has a hold on the American consciousness: from television, to commercials, to the fashion runway. Yet, not all of us can live in a pedigreed midcentury home; fear not! The principles of midcentury design can be applied to the most unassuming spaces. Making Midcentury...
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The Detroit Public Library: An American Classic

Barbara Madgy Cohn · Painted Turtle Book
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

For the last century, the Detroit Public Library has ranked as one of the most beautiful buildings in Detroit - an important landmark as well as a significant monument serving generations of Detroiters. The Detroit Public Library: An American Classic was born out of "Discover the Wonders,"...
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Composting for a New Generation: Latest Techniques for the Bin and Beyond

Michelle Balz · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Composting is no longer only in the realm of environmentalists! It's not just about reducing food waste; most composters get their hands dirty because of the benefits it brings to the soil in their garden. All the extra nutrients makes for well-fed gardens with plenty of nutrients and rich...
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