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Outdoor Wood Projects: 24 Projects You Can Build in a Weekend

Steve Cory · Taunton Press
Pages: 201
Format: Paperback

Create something to show for your weekend! If you're looking for projects that you can start and finish in just a weekend's time, look no further than Outdoor Wood Projects. This collection of 24 projects for the backyard and garden can be completed with basic DIY tooling, inexpensive materials,...
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Organized Enough: The Anti-Perfectionist's Guide to Getting--and Staying--Organized

Amanda Sullivan · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 229
Format: Paperback

If you're looking to clean up but not clean out, if you want to declutter but don't want to throw out eighty percent of your stuff, if you want to be able to find matching socks in the morning but don't want a color-coded sock drawer, you've come to the right place. Organized Enough offers...
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Modern Homesteading

LIVING THE COUNTRY LIFE. · Weldon Owen
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

An accessible guide for the aspiring modern homesteader from the craftsmen at Living the Country Life magazine! Grow your own crops, raise backyard animals, and preserve your bounty for the winter months and beyond. Once upon a time, people had a real connection with the land. Instead...
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The New Bohemians Handbook: Come Home to Good Vibes

Justina Blakeney · Abrams
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The New Bohemian Handbook guides readers in beautifully simple techniques for adding good vibes and style to living spaces. Packed with hundreds of ideas for bringing positive energy to your home, the book features exercises and activities for thinking about rooms in new ways. With Justina's...
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At Home: Sarah Style

Sarah Richardson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Following the bestselling success of Sarah Style, HGTV star and design queen Sarah Richardson invites readers into the homes she's most proud of designing - her own!Renowned designer Sarah Richardson guides readers through a variety of houses - from urban spaces, to secluded farmland...
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Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day

Cassandra Aarssen · Mango
Pages: 149
Format: Paperback

#1 Amazon Best Seller! ─ Clutter free solutions for an organized homeReal Life Organizing offers clutter free storage solutions and advice that can help you create a Pinterest worthy home on a small budget:Learn how to organize your home, simplify life and have more time for the things...
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The Greenhouse Gardener's Manual

Roger Marshall · Timber Press
Format: Book

The ultimate guide to growing inside! A greenhouse can bring you spectacular rewards - if you know how to maximize its potential. In this easy-to-use guide, Roger Marshall covers all the basics - how to choose, heat, irrigate, and maintain your greenhouse - as well how to grow scores of popular...
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The Right Color

Eve Ashcraft · Artisan
Format: Print book

The definitive guide to paint by the nation’s most sought-after color consultantWhen Martha Stewart was developing her first paint collection, the Araucana Colors (based on the hues of her chickens’ eggs), she turned to the nation’s top color consultant: Eve Ashcraft....
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All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses, How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America

Marta McDowell · Timber Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

"This informative gem of a book is for readers fascinated by either gardening or presidential history." - Library Journal The eighteen acres that surround the White House have been an unwitting witness to history--a backdrop for soldiers, suffragettes, protestors, and activists....
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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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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty

Lisa Mason Ziegler · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Fight garden pests and increase your yields the natural way with this tried and true technique! Planting vegetables and flowers together is one of the oldest ways to create a healthy, bountiful garden, but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers will...
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Style & Simplicity: An A to Z Guide to Living a More Beautiful Life

Ted Kennedy Watson · Sterling Signature
Format: Hardcover

Ted Kennedy Watson - acclaimed retailer, blogger, and stylist of the beautiful and unusual - has a passion for the art of display and an understanding of how distinctive touches make a space inviting. Here, in a lush, lavish, A-to-Z guide, he presents dozens of insider secrets and ideas...
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Minimalism for Families: Practical Minimalist Living Strategies to Simplify Your Home and Life

Zoe Kim · Althea Press
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback

"Zoe Kim has written a book on minimalism for families that is practical, encouraging, and motivating. And I'm glad she did -- we need more guidance like this in the world today." -- Joshua Becker, founder of Becoming MinimalistOrganizing your home and leading a minimalist lifestyle...
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Your Creative Work Space: The Sweet Spot Style Guide to Home Office Studio Decor

Desha Peacock · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

We are all born with an innate desire to creatively express the essence of who we are. This desire is embedded into our soul, a gift at birth, our own Northern Star in a galaxy full of the unknown. Your physical setting can either hamper or inspire this creative calling. Known for her eclectic...
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Rob Dunn · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basementsEven when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly...
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