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The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction

Kent Lester · Betterway
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Save 30% on home construction! Whether you want to take on all the responsibility of contracting your home or simply want to intelligently communicate with your homebuilder, The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home can help you save 30% or more on the cost of home construction by teaching...
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Gardenista: The Definitive Guide to Stylish Outdoor Spaces

Michelle Slatalla · Artisan
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Our homes' outdoor spaces can - and should - be as welcoming and carefully considered as our living rooms; when treated as extensions of our homes, these spaces enrich our lives immeasurably. That was the guiding principle when, under the direction of editor in chief Michelle Slatalla (whose...
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DIY Solar Projects - Updated Edition: Small Projects to Whole-home Systems: Tap Into the Sun

Eric W Smith · Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Learn how to make your own solar-powered appliances and additions to your home with this updated edition of DIY Solar Projects!Put the sun to work in your home with the new, expanded edition of the popular 2011 title DIY Solar Projects. Like the original, this edition offers small-scale,...
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Essential Pruning Techniques: Trees, Shrubs, and Conifers

Tony Kirkham · Timber Press
Pages: 404
Format: Print book

A master class on pruning Pruning is an essential part of garden maintenance; it is necessary to regulate and control growth and to encourage flowering and fruiting on trees and shrubs. It is also one of the most difficult parts of garden maintenance. To prune well, gardeners must have...
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In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

Grace Bonney · Artisan
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller "I want to rip out every page of this glorious book and hang them on my wall so that I can be surrounded by these incredible women all day long." - Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers Across the globe,...
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Homesteading From Scratch: Building Your Self-Sufficient Homestead, Start to Finish

Steven Jones · W W Norton
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

Homesteading From Scratch is for people who want to do things differently - the type of people who want to eat real food, grow herbs, make cheese, raise baby animals, hunt mushrooms, pick blackberries, unschool their children, can jelly, ferment kraut, farm organically, connect to nature,...
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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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Landscaping Ideas that Work

Julie Moir Messervy · Taunton Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Out is in In recent years, there s been a boom in building and refurbishing outdoor rooms and spaces. Landscaping Ideas That Work is the most comprehensive resource of inspired design ideas and practical solutions for creating landscaping and outdoor living spaces that are comfortable,...
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Fantastic Forts: inspiration for wild hideaways

Jo Schofield · Frances Lincoln
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Forts are universal play places, you can make them almost anywhere, out of almost anything.Fantastic Forts uses descriptive text and ample photographs to inspire children (and adults) to build amazing forts outdoors.The book includes basic construction tips on how to build a fort, how to waterproof...
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Five-Plant Gardens: 52 Ways to Grow a Perennial Garden with Just Five Plants

Nancy J. Ondra · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback

Selecting perennial plants can be overwhelming - there are hundreds of choices, and it's difficult to know when your plants will bloom, whether they'll thrive in sunny or shady spots, and which ones will look well together. In Five-Plant Gardens, Nancy Ondra eliminates the guesswork and the stress,...
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Open House: Reinventing Space for Simple Living

AMANDA PAYS · Gibbs Smith
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Transforming older homes into modern, functional, open spaces filled with natural light. Author Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen share ideas for remodeling older homes to create modern, open floor plans while sharing lessons learned along the way. Topics include tricks of seeing through...
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New Kitchen Idea Book

Heather J Paper · The Taunton Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The kitchen. It's the undeniable heart of the home, the hub from which families fan out and come together again. Much more than a place to make and take meals, it's also "homework central", a home office, and an entertaining area all rolled into one. So when it's time to update...
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Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales: Easy Planting, Less Weeding, Early Harvests. A Storey BASICS® Title

Craig LeHoullier · Storey Publishing,
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

This innovative technique is an inexpensive, low-maintenance way to grow a bounty of food in a small space. All you need is a bale of straw, some fertilizer, and your favorite vegetable seeds! Craig LeHoullier's step-by-step instructions show you how to do everything from sourcing the straw...
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The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem

Christopher Shein · Timber Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as gardeners who are ready to take their organic gardening to the next level are discovering the wisdom of a simple system that emphasizes the idea that by taking care of the earth, the earth takes care of you. The Vegetable...
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The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach

Ben Falk · Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback

The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition. Ben Falk is a land designer and site developer whose permaculture-research farm has drawn national attention. The site is a terraced...
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