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Family Handyman - Trusted Media Brands
Format: Paperback

Continuing Family Handyman's "Whole House" series, this book offers readers a wide variety of tips and projects to help them tidy up and declutter around their living spaces. Chapters are as follows: Kitchen & Bathroom; Garage & Outdoors; Laundry Room, Closets & Clothes; Around...
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Making Murals: A practical handbook for wall painting and mural art to enhance your home

CLARA WEST MARY WILKINSON - ?David & Charles
Format: Paperback

This practical guide to mural painting explains all the key techniques and design styles you need so that you can get creative in your own home and start 'unsaming' your walls. Murals are a fantastic way to breathe new life into an interior or exterior space. Mural painting is perfect...
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Growing Tomatoes: Your Guide to Growing Delicious Tomatoes at Home

Jason Johns - GroundSwell Books
Format: Paperback

Nothing compares to the taste of home-grown tomatoes! Master gardener Jason Johns shares his love for and knowledge of growing this popular, savory fruit so that even novices can produce a bumper crop.This in-depth guide teaches you how to:understand types of tomatoes and which ones are best...
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Solar Electricity Basics - Revised and Updated 2nd Edition: Powering Your Home or Office with Solar Energy

Dan Chiras - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback

The indispensable guide to solar electricity systems for homeowners, business owners, builders, and students Climate change and limits to fossil fuels compel us to find safer, more economical, and more sustainable ways to meet our needs for electricity. And, as more and more electric cars...
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The Family Cabin: Inspiration for Camps, Cottages, and Cabins

Dale Mulfinger - Taunton Press
Format: Hardcover

VOTED BEST INTERIOR DESIGN BOOK OF 2017 BY LIBRARY JOURNAL Since the beginning of the 20th century, cabin retreats have held a unique place in the lives and lore of many American families. In The Family Cabin, author and "cabinologist" Dale Mulfinger explores the role that cabins...
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Scenic Construction for the Stage: Key Skills for Carpenters

Mark Tweed - Crowood Press
Format: Paperback

This book details the progression from interpeting design, model boxes and drawings, to material selection, fabrication and finishing. It also includes advice for developing accuracy, finish and consistency; tool selection and sharpening; CDM, Health and Safety; practical workshop mathematics...
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Raised-Bed Gardening: How to grow more in less space

Simon Akeroyd - Taunton Press
Format: Print book

Raised-bed gardening is a popular gardening technique that allows growers to achieve greater yields while watering less. An opening section explains the basics of raised beds, focusing on the benefits of raised beds (easier maintenance, better drainage, soil amelioration, etc.) and explaining...
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Backyard Homesteading, Second Revised Edition: A Back-to-Basics Guide for Self-Sufficiency

David Toht - Creative Homeowner
Format: Paperback

Turn your backyard - no matter how small - into a sustainable and self-sufficient homestead for raising livestock and cultivating homegrown food!Take control of the food you eat and the products you use - even if you live in an urban or suburban homePractical instructions for growing fruit...
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The Vegetable Gardening Book: Your complete guide to growing an edible organic garden from seed to harvest

Joe Lamp'l - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback

The award-winning television and podcast host Joe Lamp'l is here with insider tips and next-level insight for creating a lush, fruitful, and resilient vegetable garden. Just when you think you have a secure grip on what it takes to grow a vegetable garden, a pro like Joe comes along...
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Zen Garden Design: Mindful Spaces by Shunmyo Masuno - Japan's Leading Garden Designer

Mira Locher - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Zen Buddhist priest Shunmyo Masuno understands that today's busy world leaves little time or space for self-reflection, but that a garden - even in the most urban of spaces - can provide some respite. In his words, "The garden is a special spiritual place where the mind dwells."...
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