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Country Living The Little Book of Big Decorating Ideas: 287 Clever Tips, Tricks, and Solutions

Katy McColl · Hearst
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

Get inspiration on every page! Based on the signature "Bright Idea" feature in Country Living magazine, this stunning guidebook shows you how to decorate your home in fresh and imaginative ways. These are smart concepts you'll grasp in a single glance and brief caption: shortcuts...
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Saving Vegetable Seeds: Harvest, Clean, Store, and Plant Seeds from Your Garden. A Storey BASICS® Title

Fern Marshall Bradley · Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

This illustrated, step-by-step guide shows you how to save seeds from 20 of the most popular vegetable garden plants, including beans, carrots, peas, peppers, and tomatoes. Youll learn how each plant is pollinated key to determining how the seed should be saved, how to select the seeds...
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Home Repair Wisdom & Know-How: Timeless Techniques to Fix, Maintain, and Improve Your Home

EDITORS OF FINE HOMEBUILDING · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 912
Format: Paperback

Home Repair Wisdom & Know-How is the essential go-to book for every project homeowners encounter, from basic wiring to kitchen renovations. Featuring step-by-step instructions from the pages of Fine Homebuilding magazine, one of the most trusted sources on home repair and construction,...
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A Beautiful Mess Happy Handmade Home: Painting, Crafting, and Decorating a Cheerful, More Inspiring Space

Elsie Larson · Potter Style
Format: Book

Step inside the world of Elsie and Emma, the sisters behind the décor blog A Beautiful Mess. With tiny budgets and a crafty, can-do attitude, they overhauled each room in their first homes with DIY projects using family photos, vibrant fabrics, flea-market finds, and affordable furniture....
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House Beautiful Quick Changes: Fresh Looks for Every Room

House Beautiful · Hearst
Format: Hardcover

Become a “quick change” artist, with the first in a brand-new series from House Beautiful!This stunningly photographed book brims with simple, smart suggestions for transforming any room in your house—and outdoor spaces too. Each chapter covers a different technique or style,...
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Ultimate Book of Home Plans

Editors of Creative Homeowner · Creative Homeowner
Format: Print book

Select from 730 of the most popular home plans from the country s top architects and designers, with full color photos of the actual homes, floor plans, and design ideas. Virtually every home style is offered, including farmhouses, country cottages, contemporaries, luxury estates, vacation...
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Outdoor Wood Projects: 24 Projects You Can Build in a Weekend

Steve Cory · Ingram Pub Services
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Start -- and finish -- a nifty outdoor woodworking project in just one weekend. Just two days is all it takes to complete each one of the 24 garden and backyard projects featured in Outdoor Wood Projects. Included are things like: planters and window boxes, trellises, outdoor furniture,...
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The Tree Doctor: A Guide to Tree Care and Maintenance

DAN PRENDERGAST · Firefly Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

A practical reference for experienced and novice tree owners alike. If you are fortunate enough to live on property that includes trees, The Tree Doctor is the ideal, fully-illustrated manual for care and maintenance. A sapling requires different care than does a young tree or a mature...
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Gifts from the Garden: 100 Gorgeous Homegrown Presents

Debora Robertson · Kyle Books
Format: Hardcover

Brimming with ideas from the pretty to the practical, Gifts from the Garden contains more than 100 projects that use the gardener’s bounty throughout the seasons. Divided into Flowers & Herbs, and Fruit, Vegetables & Nuts, Debora includes gifts that are edible, for your home...
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Junk Gypsy: Designing a Life at the Crossroads of Wander & Wonder

Amie Sikes · Touchstone
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

In their first book, the Junk Gypsies - sisters and stars of the popular Texas-born brand and HGTV show - combine big dreams, stories of roadside treasures found, and down-home design projects inspired by epic makeovers for friends like Miranda Lambert, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Sadie Robertson.Amie...
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Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes

Nicole Curtis · Artisan
Pages: 239
Format: Print book

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller For the first time, Nicole Curtis, the star of the megahit HGTV and DIY Network show Rehab Addict, reveals her private struggles, her personal victories, and the inspiring lessons we can all learn from them. Part celebrity memoir and part self-help...
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The Gardener's Guide to Common-Sense Pest Control: Completely Revised and Updated

William Olkowski · Taunton Press
Pages: 391
Format: Print book

This important resource gives homeowners hundreds of environmentally effective ways to control garden pests. Here are all the no- to low-toxicity remedies for ridding lawns, gardens, and trees of destructive invaders. From microscopic organisms that case plant-killing blights to burrowing...
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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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Kitchen Ideas You Can Use: Inspiring Designs & Clever Solutions for Remodeling Your Kitchen

Chris Peterson · Cool Springs Press, 2014.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

The kitchen: command center of the home, headquarters for all things edible, family-member traffic funnel. Whether you're a bachelor or bachelorette in a small starter home or part of a larger family, if this isn't the most-used room in your house, you must not be home very often....
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Southern Mountain Living

Lynn Monday · Gibbs Smith
Format: Book

An array of ideas for mixing rustic, antique and contemporary elements This book brings to light the style, grace and hospitality of living in the southern mountains. Southern Mountain Living offers a room-by-room look into the interior designs of Lynn Monday, making the most of outdoor...
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