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One-Day DIY: Modern Farmhouse Furniture: Beautiful Handmade Tables, Seating and More the Fast and Easy Way

JP Strate - Page Street Publishing
Format: Paperback

JP Strate and Liz Spillman, known for their hit YouTube channel The Rehab Life, are here to show readers that anyone can build amazing custom furniture and home decor without a large budget or time commitment. With simple techniques and tips on renting tools and buying pre-cut wood, this...
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Ultimate Guide to Home Repair and Improvement, 3rd Updated Edition: Proven Money-Saving Projects; 3,400 Photos & Illustrations

Creative Homeowner - Creative Homeowner; 3rd Updated edition
Format: Paperback

ultimate home improvement manual with how-to photos and materials lists on tools, materials, and basic skillsComprehensive sections on wiring and plumbing, roofing and siding, heating and cooling, and moreIncludes a remodeling guide, a special photo-illustrated section on contracts, contractors,...
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Broken Glass: Mies Van Der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece

Beam, Alex - RANDOM HOUSE

The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture--and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art. In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe,...
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Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books

Nina Freudenberger - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

A visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library, this dream-and-drool design book features some of the most jaw-dropping book collections of homeowners around the world.Interior designer Nina Freudenberger, New Yorker writer Sadie Stein, and Architectural...
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The Green Dumb Guide to Houseplants: 45 Unfussy Plants That Are Easy to Grow and Hard to Kill

Holly Theisen-Jones - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

For those who want to take care of houseplants but can hardly take care of themselves, The Green Dumb Guide to Houseplants is the perfect handbook for even the most greenery-inept individual.. . We all love the idea of houseplants, and maybe you've stood by helplessly as a cactus...
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The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies

Juliet Blankespoor - Harvest
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive and lushly photographed guide to growing and using healing plants, including recipes, from the founder of the Chestnut School of Herbal MedicineThis is the ultimate reference for anyone looking to bring the beauty and therapeutic properties of plants into their garden, kitchen,...
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Grow Something Different to Eat: Weird and wonderful heirloom fruits and vegetables for your garden

MATTHEW BIGGS - DK
Format: Paperback

Discover more than 50 out-of-the-ordinary edibles, from cucamelons to strawberry popcorn, in this seed-to-plate guide that inspires you to cultivate amazing new fruit and vegetable crops.Whether you're a beginner and determined to make the most of limited space with a truly unique and heirloom...
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Heirloom Rooms: Soulful Stories of Home

Erin Napier - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Erin Napier, designer, host of HGTV's Home Town, and author of Make Something Good Today, returns with a gorgeously illustrated and one-of-a-kind celebration of the homes we live in and love.. Our homes are more than an assemblage of bricks and glass, wood and nails. They are the keepers...
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Country Living Tiny Homes: Living Big in Small Spaces

COUNTRY LIVING. - Hearst
Format: Hardcover

Bigger isn't always better: Country Living offers a look inside more than 25 tiny homes that maximize function and style. Downsizing has become a big trend - and many people are choosing to live small and smart in compact houses that don't require huge mortgages or upkeep. Country...
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The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm: How to Start and Run a Profitable Market Garden That Builds Health in Soil, Crops, and Communities

Daniel Mays - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

No-till - a method of growing crops and providing pasture without disturbing the soil - has become an important alternative to standard farming practices. In this comprehensive guide to successful no-till vegetable farming for aspiring and beginning farmers, author Daniel Mays, owner...
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