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Big Impact Landscaping: 28 DIY Projects You Can Do on a Budget to Beautify and Add Value to Your Home

Sara Bendrick - Page Street Pub Co
Format: Print book

The Ultimate in Designer Landscaping Projects for Boosting Your Home's ValueIf you've ever looked at the weed-filled expanse that passes for your backyard and wondered why your family never uses it, then this book is for you. Sara Bendrick, host of I Hate My Yard! and Build It Like...
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Gardening with Foliage First: 127 Dazzling Combinations That Pair the Beauty of Leaves with Flowers, Bark, Berries, and More

Karen Chapman - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

Create a foliage-driven garden that dazzles! Although seductive, flowers, by their fleeting nature, are a fickle base to provide long-lasting gardens with year-round interest. Tackle this problem with the advice in Gardening with Foliage First. Learn how to first build a framework of foliage...
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Modern Bathrooms

Loft Publications - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

A photographic collection of stylish, functional, and sustainable design ideas for your new - or old - bathroom.The bathroom - one of the most private and essential rooms in your house - should be designed with care, love, and efficiency. And why shouldn't you give this intimate space...
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Succulents: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Designing, and Growing 200 Easy Care Plants

Robin Stockwell - Oxmoor House
Format: Print book

Inspiring, practical and richly photographed, this comprehensive guide offers creative ideas and DIY projects using beautiful low-maintenance, water-wise plants Succulents are the ultimate easy-care plant: versatile, effortless to grow both indoors and outdoors, and drought tolerant. From...
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100 Plants That Won't Die in Your Garden

Geoff Tibballs - Robinson
Format: Paperback

Stocking a garden with plants can be an expensive business, so there are few things more frustrating than when the prized specimen for which you have paid a king's ransom either online or at a garden centre shrivels up and dies within a year or so of purchase. If you can prove that...
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Coffee for Roses: ...and 70 Other Misleading Myths About Backyard Gardening

C.L. Fornari - St. Lynn's Press
Format: Hardcover

Word-of-mouth may be a great way to learn about some products, but word-of-mouth gardening tips can be a very bad idea. The age-old practice of passing along gardening tips and tricks is no guarantee you will get a good result...it might even do the opposite. n her new book, garden expert...
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Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets

Geralin Thomas - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

Decluttering your home will save you time, money, and energy. Thomas provides tips on getting rid of clutter, turning clutter into cash, and banishing clutter forever. When you use common sense strategies that work, you'll find the process fun, creative and painless.
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French Country Cottage

Courtney Allison - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

A romantic interpretation of French country style in a California cottage. With beautiful photography and tale about a little forgotten house that could, Courtney shares the story of her renovation of a 1940's cottage in the California countryside. An abandoned vacation house,...
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Hand-Built Outdoor Furniture: 20 Step-by-Step Projects Anyone Can Build

Katie Jackson - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

Selected as a Gardens Illustrated Recommended ReadHand-Built Outdoor Furniture covers twenty step-by-step, fully illustrated projects with hundreds of clear and easy-to-follow photographs. Finished pieces include simple items include a trellis, a flower box, and a plant stand...
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Furniture Hacks: and other creative updates for a unique and stylish home

Hester Van Overbeek - Cico
Format: Hardcover

Discover how to update and repurpose homeware and furniture for an effortlessly chic home. Nowadays, it is easy to find affordable furniture for your home from chain stores, but those pieces can lack character. This is where furniture hacking comes in--updating, repurposing, and personalizing...
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Vogue Living: Country, City, Coast

Hamish Bowles - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The next collection of all-new beautiful houses and gardens that have appeared in the pages of Vogue over the last decade, with more than 400 full-color photographs.Lavishly illustrated in full color, Vogue Living: City, Country, by the Sea is an irresistible voyage through some of the world's...
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Dream Home: The Property Brothers Ultimate Guide to Finding & Fixing Your Perfect House

Jonathan Scott - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller: "This essential guide informs readers on how to sell, buy, and potentially remodel any residence. A must read." - Library Journal (starred review) . Twin brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott have taken HGTV by storm with their four hit shows, filled with...
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How the French Live: Modern French Style

SIHAM MAZOUZ - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

At home with modern French families . . . Si Mazouz, curator of the popular blog FRENCHBYDESIGN, introduces a dozen sophisticated French families in her debut book, How the French Live to engage and inspire. Si shares each family's personality and values through the lens of their uniquely...
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Building Construction Handbook

R Chudley - Routledge
Format: Paperback

Ideal for students on all construction courses Topics presented concisely in plain language and with clear drawings Updated to include revisions to Building and Construction regulations The Building Construction Handbook is THE authoritative reference for all construction students and professionals....
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New Wild Garden: Natural-style planting and practicalities

Ian Hodgson - Frances Lincoln Pub Ltd
Format: Print book

New Wild Garden combines new approaches to a more naturalistic design with the practical side of growing wildflowers and shows how to incorporate wildflowers, real meadows and a looser meadow-style planting into gardens and wild spaces.With serious concern into the decline of pollinators...
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Prepping 101: 40 Steps You Can Take to Be Prepared: Protect Your Family, Prepare for Weather Disasters, and Be Ready and Resilient when Emergencies Arise

KATHY HARRISON - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

The next severe storm, power outage, or financial meltdown could hit at any time. Having a household contingency plan and being part of a strong, resilient community could mean the difference between life and death. This friendly and highly accessible guide introduces the most important,...
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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty

Lisa Mason Ziegler - Cool Springs Press
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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The Inviting Life: An Inspirational Guide to Homemaking, Hosting and Opening the Door to Happiness

Laura Calder - Appetite by Random House
Format: Hardcover

Far more than a guide to homemaking and being a fine host - although it is definitely all that too - The Inviting Life is about how to live each day with a desire and determination to turn the ordinary into something lovely. It's also a book about why we should bother. Whether the subject...
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Beth Chatto: A Life with Plants

Catherine Horwood - Pimpernel Press
Format: Hardcover

Beth Chatto was the inspiration behind the "right plant, right place" ethos that lies at the heart of modern gardening. She also wrote some of the best-loved gardening books of the 20th century, among them The Dry Garden, The Damp Garden, and Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden. Some...
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Welcome to the Farm: How-to Wisdom from The Elliott Homestead

Shaye Elliott - Lyons Press
Format: Paperback

A fresh, new guide to the backyard lifestyle The homesteading movement is continuing to grow, as more people are stepping up to have a hand in where their food comes from. Whether you want to dabble or immerse yourself completely in the do-it-yourself, back-to-basics lifestyle, Welcome...
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Vern yip's design wise : your smart guide to a beautiful home

Vern Yip - Running Press
Format: Print book

Vern Yip is one of the most beloved and recognizable interior designers in America. Over the course of his near-decade at HGTV, he has counseled thousands of people on beautifying their homes on limited budgets. Through his shows, as well as in his regular column "Learn from Vern"...
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Raised Row Gardening: Incredible Organic Produce with No Tilling and Minimal Weeding

JIM COMPETTI - Page Street Publishing
Format: Paperback

Easier and Cheaper to Set Up Than Raised Beds!For homeowners young and old looking for the easiest and most affordable way to grow the most vegetables, the Raised Row method shared in this breakthrough book is the new go-to choice. In the past decade, raised bed gardening has been wildly...
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Ultimate Guide: Plumbing, 4th Updated Edition

Editors of Creative Homeowner - Creative Homeowner
Format: Paperback

Save money by making minor and major plumbing repairs and improvements yourself, with help from this complete home plumbing guide! More than 800 photos Detailed how-to diagrams Learn how to skills, from fixing leaky faucets to soldering copper tubing like a pro Save money and resources...
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Gardener's Guide to Tropical Plants: Cool Ways to Add Hot Colors, Bold Foliage, and Striking Textures

Nellie Neal - Cool Springs Press
Format: Print book

Now gardeners can bring an exotic flair to their gardens by introducing the color, textures, and fabulous foliage of tropical plants. Not just for hot climates anymore, bromeliads, orchids, bananas, palms, birds of paradise, elephant ears, canna, and more can bring a touch of the tropics...
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The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

Joshua Becker - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover

A popular minimalist blogger and author of The More of Less shows you how to methodically turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living.One of today's most influential minimalist advocates takes us on a decluttering tour of our own houses and apartments,...
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Creating the French Look

Annie Sloan - CICO Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The French interior evokes a way of life to aspire to, with its good food,unhurried pace and, above all, its past for which many people feel nostalgia.Developed over hundreds of years, the French look reflects all tastes, from the cultivated grandeur of the chateau to the simplicity of rural...
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Junk Gypsy: Designing a Life at the Crossroads of Wander & Wonder

Amie Sikes - Touchstone
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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Guilt Free & Green: A Year of Eco-Friendly Ideas

Terri Paajanen - Mango Media
Format: Print book

More than just a guide, Guilt Free & Green offers planet positive alternatives and not just the obvious. This inspiring how-to teaches you with easy-to-remember ideas that actually are practical. Money-saving and make you want to live green and stay there. Readers are encouraged to use resources...
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My Tiny Home Farm: Simple Ideas for Small Spaces

Francine Raymond - Pavilion
Format: Hardcover

Forest plots, urban orchards and amazing allotments - here are over 25 exciting spaces for tiny home farms. Meet the college showing local schools how to deal with ducks, the Brooklyn inner city community gardeners who are growing nuts, and a couple who have filled their front yard with...
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Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers

Annette Goliti Gutierrez - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Hand-made style for outdoor living Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn't have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric....
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Rise: How a House Built a Family

Cara Brookins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

If you were inspired by Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, you'll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to heal from the unthinkable. After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn...
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Remodel Success: Home Remodeling Done Right, On Time, and On Budget

MONICA HIGGINS - Schiffer
Format: Paperback

Most homeowners are uninformed and ill-prepared for big-ticket remodels. The knowledge they do have often comes from reality-TV home makeover shows that gloss over the ingredients essential to success. This book by a construction management pro gives homeowners increased confidence in making...
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Heirloom Gardening in the South: Yesterday's Plants for Today's Gardens

William C Welch - Texas A&M University Press
Format: Paperback

New edition of a classic work on Southern heirloom gardening . . .Heirloom plants belong in Southern gardens. Tough and adapted, tried and true, pretty and useful, these living antiques--passed through countless generations--represent the foundation of traditional gardens as we know them...
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Organize Every Room: The Real Simple Method for a Well-Ordered Home

The Editors of Real Simple - Real Simple
Format: Flexibound

Rein in the chaos and regain control of your space. Whether you live in a small space or a large one, Real Simple has the best why-didn't-I-think-of-that advice for creating - and keeping - an easy, stylish, organized home. This practical and inspiring handbook covers everything...
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Veranda Inspired by Color

Clinton Smith - Hearst
Format: Hardcover

From subtle tints to saturated hues, this stunning volume from Veranda showcases sensational uses of color in some of the world's grandest homes. Step into more than 30 exquisite houses, all decorated by renowned designers, for a beautiful lesson in how color sets the tone for a room....
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Branches & Blooms: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Magical Centerpieces, Wreaths, Garlands, and Other Unexpected Arrangements

Alethea Harampolis - Artisan
Format: Print book

(Originally published in hardcover as The Wreath Recipe Book) Alethea Harampolis and Jill Rizzo, authors of The Flower Recipe Book and founders of Studio Choo, provide more than 100 step-by-step projects to make with flowering and leafy branches. In the spring, readers can create...
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Clean and Lean: 30 Days, 30 Foods, a New You!

Ian K. Smith - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Building on the principles in Ian K. Smith's bestselling The Clean 20, Clean and Lean introduces four new important components to the eating plan:--A full day-by-day 30-day weight loss diet--Intermittent fasting (skip breakfast, lose weight) --A pure, simple, effective exercise...
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Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change

Larry Weaner - Timber Press
Format: Print book

"This beautiful book shows us that guiding natural processes rather than fighting them is the key to creating healthier landscapes and happier gardeners. An essential addition to our knowledge of sustainable landscapes." - Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home This...
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Your First Garden: A Landscape Primer for New Home Owners

Judith Adam - Firefly Books
Format: Print book

Praise for the author's Landscape Planning: Practical Techniques for the Home Gardener: "Highly recommended as one of the most comprehensive, up-to-date works on general gardening." -- Chicago Botanic Garden "This book is worth its weight in gold." -- The Globe...
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Flowerevolution: Blooming into Your Full Potential with the Magic of Flowers

Katie Hess - ‎Hay House Inc.
Format: Hardcover

"A stunning, beautiful, and courageous book."

-  Stephen Harrod Buhner, herbalist and author of The Lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings...

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How To Prune, Train and Tie Rose Plants

Centrale Raad van Beroep. - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

With roses, learning occurs from the ground up. The art of growing beautiful roses is something anyone can master. Whether you are looking to start an entire garden from scratch or simply keep this vigorously growing plant properly pruned, expert advice can help you achieve a beautiful...
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The Complete Book of Home Organization

TONI HAMMERSLEY - Weldon Owen
Format: Paperback

Have you ever wished you had the time and tools to organize your house in a clutter-free, design-conscious, Pinterest-worthy way? From storage solutions and cleaning tips to secret space-saving methods and expert strategies, The Complete Book of Home Organization is packed with the tips...
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The Holistic Home: Feng Shui for Mind, Body, Spirit, Space

Laura Benko - Helios Press
Format: Print book

Rule the world and take control of your emotional and mental health from where you sit, stand, and sleep. The Holistic Home is based on an original lifestyle concept focused on creating a dynamic, healthy, and thoughtful space within yourself and your home by combining three planes of action...
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Teeny Tiny Gardening: 35 step-by-step projects and inspirational ideas for gardening in tiny spaces

Emma Hardy - CICO Books
Format: Paperback

35 unique projects to make full use of any small space you may have, whether you live in the country or the city. Teeny Tiny Gardening is horticulture on the smallest of scales. "Emma Hardy has created a book perfect for the novice gardener. Everything is broken down into simple steps,...
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Down to Earth: Laid-back Interiors for Modern Living

Lauren Liess - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

An elevated yet accessible follow-up to Lauren Liess's Habitat, showcasing her signature easy-living lifestyle Down to Earth picks up right where Lauren Liess's critically acclaimed Habitat left off. While Habitat walked readers through the decorating process step-by-step,...
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Romantic Prairie Style: Homes Inspired by Traditional Country Life

Fifi O'Neill - Cico Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

Romantic Prairie Style embraces simple pleasures, comfort, and the long-cherished ideals of natural beauty, simplicity, and harmony with the earth. Romantic Prairie is a style that says "home" wherever you may be because, more than anything else, it's a mindset: it's gentle...
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Gardening with Junk: Simple and innovative planting ideas using recycled pots and containers

ADAM CAPLIN - CICO Books
Format: Hardcover

Revamp, recycle, and rejuvenate your old containers into some stunning feature pieces for your yard. Learn how to become more eco-friendly and make the most of old mugs, oil cans, plastic bottles, and so much more with Gardening with Junk.Delve into gardening with the first section, Getting...
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Better Homes and Gardens Flea Market Style: Fresh Ideas for Your Vintage Finds

Samantha Thorpe - Better Homes and Gardens Books
Format: Paperback

The Indispensible Guide to Scoring, Using, Collecting, and Displaying Vintage Flea Market Finds Flea markets, Craigslist, and even a neighbor's curb can yield vintage treasures that make a house sparkle. But knowing what to do with those pieces can be intimidating. This innovative book...
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Clean My Space: The Secret to Cleaning Better, Faster, and Loving Your Home Every Day

MELISSA MAKER - Avery
Format: Hardcover

The wildly popular YouTube star behind Clean My Space presents the breakthrough solution to cleaning better with less effort Melissa Maker is beloved by fans all over the world for her completely re-engineered approach to cleaning. As the dynamic new authority on home and living,...
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Happy Houseplants: 30 Lovely Varieties to Brighten Up Your Home

Angela Staehling - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

For anyone who has longed for a garden of their own - whether a city dweller or one with less-than-green thumbs - this is a handy little guide to growing and maintaining houseplants. Cheerful and informative, Happy Houseplants will guide any budding indoor botanist through a bevy of topics,...
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French Cottage: French-style Homes and Shops for Inspiration

Cindy Cooper - Hoffman Media
Format: Print book

Step into lovely French style homes and shops for inspiration and enchanting ideas. Boutique finds, along with heirloom antiques, provide a true Gallic journey through the pages of this book. Serene color palettes and timeworn artifacts create welcoming spaces that showcase prized family...
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Vern Yip's Vacation at Home: Design Ideas for Creating Your Everyday Getaway

Vern Yip - Running Press Adult
Format: Hardcover

Vern Yip, veteran interior designer from Trading Spaces and HGTV--and author of the NYT bestseller Vern Yip's Design Wise-- is back to reveal the design tricks and practices that will give any home a serene, luxury retreat-like feel. We've all heard that our home should be our sanctuary,...
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Daylilies in my Garden

JOANNE MCKINNON - Blurb
Format: Paperback

This edition of Daylilies in my Garden includes 12 more varieties, 4 illustrations, and an index. Over the years, I have grown and lost hundreds of plant varieties, but never a daylily. As a collector's garden, the design is modest. My garden, now more than 20 years old, is still a work...
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Green Enough: Eat Better, Live Cleaner, Be Happier

LEAH SEGEDIE - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

A real, no-holds-barred take on making smart, healthy choices for you and your family.In Green Enough, Mamavation blogger Leah Segedie uncovers the truth behind the food and household products that are misleadingly labeled "all-natural" and healthy but are actually filled...
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Saving Our Seeds: The Practice & Philosophy

Bevin Cohen - Small House
Format: Paperback

A seed saving guide by Bevin (Ben) Cohen, foreword by Jere Gettle Seed activist Bevin Cohen takes a deep dive into the hows and whys of the modern seed saving movement. A great how-to guide, leading the reader step by step through the process of saving their seeds from 43 different crops;...
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The Complete Guide to Healing and Medicinal Herbs: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply

Wendy Vincent - Atlantic Pub Co; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

"Herbs have been the centerpiece of natural healthcare since before the dawn of medicine in ancient Greece. With more than 50,000 strains of herb from around the world currently recorded by various botanical societies and a small percentage of those serving, universally recognized...
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A House in the Country

Peter Pennoyer - Vendome Press
Format: Print book

Nestled amid the lush, gently rolling hills of cattle and horse farms in Millbrook, New York, is a handsome Greek Revival house that looks like it's always been there. In fact, it is brand new - the collaborative effort of architect Peter Pennoyer and his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder....
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Gardening Under Lights: The Complete Guide for Indoor Growers

Leslie F. Halleck - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Gardening Under Lights details everything a gardener or hobbyist needs to know to garden indoors. Part One starts with the basics of photosynthesis, the science of light, and how to accurately measure how much light a plant needs. Part Two provides an overview of the most up-to-date tools...
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She Sheds

Erika Kotite - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Create your very own hideaway for relaxing, crafting, reading, or just to have a private place just for you. She Sheds provides the instruction and inspiration in this lovely gift-able edition.They've got their man caves, and it's time for you to have a space of your own. She Sheds...
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How to Window Box: Small-Space Plants to Grow Indoors or Out

Chantal Aida Gordon - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

From the founders of the popular gardening blog The Horticult comes a guide to the window box, the container garden that is by far the most accessible for any skill level, space, or quality of light. The 16 indoor and outdoor projects range from succulents to veggies, and showcase...
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The Martha Manual: How to Do

MARTHA STEWART - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Essential life skills from America's most trusted lifestyle expert - together in one beautiful and practical handbook, with hundreds of ideas, instructions, and inspirations Martha Stewart is America's go-to source for the best answers to nearly every question. As an authority on the many...
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Natural Gardening for Birds: Create a Bird-Friendly Habitat in Your Backyard

Julie Zickefoose - W W Norton
Format: Print book

A Practical Illustrated Bird-Oriented Gardening Book with Great Reference ChartsBird-watchers everywhere dream of a landscape dotted with fruiting shrubs, nests tucked into twining vines, and birds flocking to feeding stations. Let Natural Gardening for Birds show you how to lay out the welcome...
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National Electrical Estimator 2017

MARK C TYLER - CRAFTSMAN BOOK CO
Format: Print book

Current installation costs for all common electrical work: conduit, wire, boxes, fixtures, switches, outlets, loadcenters, panelboards, raceway, duct, signal systems, and more. Provides material costs, manhours per unit, and total installed cost. Explains what you should know to estimate...
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Plants You Cant Kill: 101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners

Stacy Tornio - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

"I kill everything I plant."Does this sound like you or someone you know? Give yourself a pat on the back because admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. And lucky for you, you can easily turn your brown thumb into a green one with the help of Plants You Cant...
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French Vintage Decor: Easy and Elegant DIY Projects for Any Home

JAMIE LUNDSTROM - Page Street Publishing
Format: Paperback

Chic and elegant French dcor never goes out of style. Crafters will delight in the easy yet stunningly sophisticated projects that take a minimal amount of time and will transform your home. Jamie Lundstrom's classic French style is effortless to achieve with these 60 incredible projects,...
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Butterfly Gardening: The North American Butterfly Association Guide

Jane Hurwitz - Princeton University Press
Format: Flexibound

An indispensable and lavishly illustrated guide to creating a garden that attracts and sustains butterfliesButterfly gardening creates habitats that support butterflies, connecting us with some of the most beautiful creatures in the natural world and bringing new levels of excitement and joy to gardening....
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Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff

Dana K. White - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff--you can get rid of clutter for good!While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain,...
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The Fruit Tree Primer: An Organic Approach to Growing Fruit in Gardens Large and Small

ORIN MARTIN - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

Written by the long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz, this substantial, authoritative, and beautiful full-color guide covers everything you need to know about organically growing healthy, bountiful fruit trees.For more than forty...
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It's the Little Things: Creating Big Moments in Your Home Through The Stylish Small Stuff

Susanna Salk - Rizzoli
Format: Print book

Featuring beautiful design vignettes and arrangements from today's top designers, Susanna Salk's It's the Little Things inspires us to be personal and artful with our decorating choices, creating spaces that reflect our personality. This jewel of a decorating book looks at the design...
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Make Something Good Today: A Memoir

TO BE CONFIRMED GALLERY. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because everything we need in life to be happy,...
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Handmade Lampshades

Natalia Price-Cabrera - GMC Publications
Format: Print book

This book is bursting with inspirational images, tips and ideas. Sixteen contemporary projects are covered in useful step-by-step tutorials. There is a detailed chapter dedicated solely to the different techniques you will need to know in order to make a fabric lampshade for yourself--techniques...
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The Downsized Veggie Garden: How to Garden Small - Wherever You Live, Whatever Your Space

Kate Copsey - St. Lynn's Press
Format: Print book

Small is beautiful, and integrating a small, easy-to-manage garden into hectic everyday life is easy. In The Downsized Veggie Garden, low maintenance is the mantra. And so is making smart, creative use of the space we have - whether it's outdoors, indoors, in-ground, in containers, on a balcony...
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The Flower Garden: How to Grow Flowers from Seed

Clare Foster - ‎Laurence King Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Growing flowers from seed is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to supplement your borders, bringing instant color to tired gardens. Many of these flowers are also ideal for cutting, so within a single growing season you can produce armfuls of beautiful blooms to cut and bring inside...
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The Whimsical Home: Interior Design with Thrift Store Finds, Flea Market Gems, and Recycled Goods

Susanna Zacke - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Vintage clothing, vintage dcor - it simply never gets old and continues to be one of the hottest style trends! Now, you too can create a beautiful vintage home environment that is sure to be the envy all your peers. In The Whimsical Home, master crafters Sania and Susanna show us five...
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Black & Decker Complete Guide to Sheds 3rd Edition: Design & Build a Shed: - Complete Plans - Step-by-Step How-To

Cool Springs Press. - Cool Springs Pr
Format: Print book

This exciting new 3rd edition of the bestselling title, Black & Decker Complete Guide to Sheds has the perfect plan for anyone who is building his or her own backyard shed.The most popular plans from previous editions are preserved, from small garage-style sheds with overhead doors,...
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Recycled Home

MARK BAILEY - Ryland Peters & Small
Format: Hardcover

In this beautiful book, Mark and Sally Bailey of Baileys Home Store share their passion for rescued, repaired, reused, and recycled pieces. The look they love is simple, stripped back and stylish, focusing on the integrity of the materials and surface quality - chipped paint revealing the layers...
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How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your Houses Dirty Little Secrets

Dana White - Thomas Nelson
Format: Audiobook

Bring your home out of the mess its in - and learn how to keep it under control.Do you experience heart palpitations at the sound of an unexpected doorbell? Do you stare in bewilderment at your messy home, wondering how in the world it go this way again? Youre not alone. But there is hope...
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Veranda Entertaining

VERANDA. - Hearst
Format: Hardcover

The art and allure of elegant entertaining, from VERANDA. From a festive al fresco gathering to a fun pool party to an extravaganza in an exotic locale, Veranda's stunning new book shows you how to give your guests the time of their lives. It's the ultimate inspirational...
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Wildlife in Your Garden: Planting and Landscaping to Create a Backyard Sanctuary

Karen Lanier - i-5 Publishing
Format: Print book

Imagine a thriving garden in your backyard, bursting with vibrantly colored blooms and lush green leaves, shaded by tall trees. Now imagine the same garden, alive with buzzing and flapping and chirping and croaking. Imagine the ecological impact of encouraging natural pollinators. Imagine...
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Veranda Retreats

Mario López-Cordero - Hearst Books
Format: Print book

With all the style, quality, and elegance you've come to expect from VERANDA, this entry in the magazine's bestselling series of home decorating books invites you into the world's most stunning houses. Lushly romantic or quietly minimalist, boasting verdant farmland or a beckoning...
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The Useful Book: 201 Life Skills They Used to Teach in Home Ec and Shop

David Bowers - Workman Publishing
Format: Print book

A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ec teachers, if you'd had them.The...
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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 Complete Practical Woodworker: A Comprehensive And Easy To Follow Course For The Home Woodworker

Stephen Corbett - Lorenz Books
Format: Print book

A guide to woods, equipment and techniques, with 20 detailed projects and 1200 step-by-step photographs.
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Glass Gardens: Easy Terrariums, Aeriums, and Aquariums for Your Home or Office

Melanie Florence - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Not everyone can be Martha Stewart, and luckily you don't need to be to create beautiful terrariums to display in your space or to give as a gift. With simple instructions and a relaxed and pleasant tone, Glass Gardens speaks to the beginner terrarium-maker as a best friend would...
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Upgrade: Home Extensions, Alterations and Refurbishments

Tim Abrahams - Gestalten
Format: Hardcover

Adding. Extending. Transforming. Upgrade breathes new life into forgotten architecture. Upgrade explores architectural and design concepts that seek to enhance and repurpose our surroundings. From slight changes to complete renovations, the spectrum of possibilities is vast. Extensions...
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Practical Cactus and Succulent Book: The Definitive Guide to Choosing, Displaying, and Caring for more than 200 Cacti

Fran Bailey - DK
Format: Paperback

Choose the right plant from 200 varieties of cacti and succulents, and learn how to grow and show them off with help from this comprehensive guide.How can you encourage your bunny ear cactus to flower and flourish? What is the best method for propagating an Echeveria or Kalanchoe? What...
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Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style

Mark D Sikes - Rizzoli
Format: Print book

The first book from interior designer Mark D. Sikes is a celebration of American style today, showcasing chic and accessible ideas for every home. Modern and unfussy, Mark D. Sikes's interiors are classic takes on California indoor/outdoor living, with natural fibers and crisp coloration,...
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The bold dry garden : lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden

Johanna Silver - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Celebrate and recreate the beauty of The Ruth Bancroft Garden! Ruth Bancroft is a dry gardening pioneer. Her lifelong love of plants led to the creation of one of the most acclaimed public gardens, The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California. The Bold Dry Garden offers unparalleled...
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Rachel Ashwell Couture Prairie: And Flea Market Treasures

Rachel Ashwell - CICO Books
Format: Hardcover

Think Marie Antoinette in jeans and a cowboy hat - that is Rachel Ashwell's prairie style. Rachel Ashwell Couture Prairie takes her signature pastels, ruffles and whimsical prettiness right to the heart of cowboy country. This is a journey in pictures and words, following Rachel through...
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Where There's Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana

Char Miller - University Press of Kansas
Format: Hardcover

Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane...
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Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer

Robert K Hale - Allworth
Format: Print book

Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer contains all the necessary tools and strategies to successfully launch and grow a professional design business in the competitive world of interior design. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience, this book includes case studies, and personal...
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Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

Peter Burke - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Print book

The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps,...
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Building Your Home: A Simple Guide to Making Good Decisions

KRISTINA LEIGH WIGGINS - Brown Books Publishing Group
Format: Paperback

In this smart and witty guide to building a home while keeping your sanity, architect Kristina Leigh Wiggins shares knowledge accumulated from years of experience as a project manager, and explains how to stay organized when creating or remodeling your home. With advice on topics ranging...
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The Louisiana Urban Gardener: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Vegetables and Herbs

Kathryn K Fontenot - LSU Press
Format: Hardcover

Whether your garden consists of large raised beds or a few pots on the patio, Kathryn K. Fontenot's The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers easy guidelines and useful tools to jump-start and maintain small yet bountiful gardens.Beginning and sustaining a successful home garden in an urban...
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A Place to Call Home: Tradition, Style, and Memory in the New American House

Gil Schafer, III. - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

For award-winning architect Gil Schafer, the most successful houses are the ones that celebrate the small moments of life - houses with timeless charm that are imbued with memory and anchored in a distinct sense of place. Essentially, Schafer believes a house is truly successful when the people...
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

MARGARETA MAGNUSSON - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called dostdning, do meaning "death" and stdning meaning "cleaning."...
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Plumbing 7th Edition: Completely Updated to Current Codes

Editors of Cool Springs Press - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback

BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Plumbing 7th Edition is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on achievable home plumbing projects for DIYers of all skill levels.From fixing a toilet to installing and plumbing a vanity sink or curbless shower, The BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide...
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Living with Pattern: Color, Texture, and Print at Home

Rebecca Atwood - Clarkson Potter
Format: Print book

If you focus on pattern, from texture and color to furniture and textiles, everything else will fall into place. Pattern is the strongest element in any room. In Living with Pattern, Rebecca Atwood demystifies how to use that element, a design concept that often confounds and confuses,...
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The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse

Lindsey Schiller - New Society
Format: Print book

Fresh, local nutrient-dense fruits vegetables are hard to find in winter in cold climates. Growing warm-weather crops like tomatoes, bananas, avocados, and other perennials is nearly impossible using conventional structures. The solution for millions of backyard and small-scale commercial...
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, Updated 7th Edition: Current with 2017-2020 Electrical Codes

COOL SPRINGS PRESS. - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback

BLACK+DECKER's latest edition of the bestselling home-improvement book in North America for more than a decade is completely updated to conform to 2017-2020 national electrical codes. For more than ten years, BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Wiring has been the bestselling home...
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Aquaponic Design Plans, Everything You Need to Know: from Backyard to Profitable Business

David H Dudley - Howard Publishing
Format: Paperback

This 550 page user-friendly book shows you how to easily produce an abundance of Fresh Organic Produce and Plentiful Healthy Fish. Feed Your Family Healthy Food, Barter and/or Sell Surplus Everything from Beginner Basics to Operating a Profitable Aquaponic Business, Step-by-Step Instructions...
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The Little Book of Herb Tips

WILLIAM FORTT - Absolute Press
Format: Hardcover

Herbs are one of the wonders of the garden and kitchen. This little book will be an inspiration for keen gardeners and cooks: learn how to grow your own parsley, mint or bay; when not to fiddle with basil; how to crush garlic; and why we should make room in our lives (and space on our shelves)...
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Living with Plants: A Guide to Indoor Gardening

Sophie Lee - Hardie Grant
Format: Hardcover

Houseplants offer the perfect solution to the urban dweller lacking in space - indoor and outdoor. They are an easy and exciting way to transform the look and feel of your home, even if you are living in a space no bigger than a shoebox. As well as improving the air quality of your home...
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100 Weekend Projects Anyone Can Do: Easy, practical projects using basic tools and standard materials

Editors at The Family Handyman - The Family Handyman
Format: Print book

100 do-it-yourself simple projects, requiring only basic tools, precut lumber and standard materials.Build fashionable, functional, inexpensive indoor and backyard furniture - even if you're a complete beginner. These are realistic projects for the average weekend warrior that require...
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The Art of Elegance: Classic Interiors

Marshall Watson - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Marshall Watson's first book reveals how to make traditional interiors fresh. Known for his meticulously researched, European-inspired style, Marshall Watson creates interiors that are rich in texture, detail, and simple luxuries. In his first book, Watson shares his finest work,...
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Organized Enough: The Anti-Perfectionist's Guide to Getting--and Staying--Organized

Amanda Sullivan - Da Capo Lifelong Books
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...
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Garden Design Solutions: Ideas for Outdoor Spaces

Stephen Woodhams - Jacqui Small
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning garden designer Stephen Woodhams demonstrates how to make the most of any outside space, whether it is a typical urban garden, exposed roof terrace or shady courtyard. Drawing on his many years of experience designing gardens of all sizes in different climates around the world,...
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Upholstery: Basic & Traditional Techniques

Santiago Pons
Format: Print book

With more than 650 color images, basic and traditional upholstery techniques are presented in step-by-step detail. Traditional upholstery is a craft that has evolved over centuries for padding and covering chairs, seats, and sofas. Using a solid wood or webbed platform, it can involve the use of springs,...
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The Watersmart Garden: 100 Great Plants for the Tropical Xeriscape

Fred D. Rauch - Univ of Hawaii Pr
Format: eBook

Two of Hawai'i's foremost horticulturalists, Fred D. Rauch and Paul R. Weissich, have chosen 100 plants perfect for inclusion in Hawai'i's watersmart xeriscape gardens. These carefully chosen plants, all readily available and fairly simple to maintain, are described and illustrated...
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The Flower Chef: A Modern Guide to Do-It-Yourself Floral Arrangements

Carly Cylinder - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Print book

THE FLOWER CHEF is a modern, comprehensive guide to floral design that caters to all readers--from beginners who have never worked with flowers before and are looking for a new creative outlet, to decorators, party planners and photographers looking to liven up their spaces. Even professionals...
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Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier

Rory Feek - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes, it's not only what we plant but where we're planted.Now raising their 3-year old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey's passing, Rory Feek digs deep into the soil of his life and career to share the choices made and lessons learned that helped turn a middle Tennessee farm into...
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Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture and More

Annie Sloan - CICO Books; US ed edition
Format: Paperback

With this book in one hand and a brush in the other, you can learn how to transform everyday furniture into something special, all for the price of a pot of paint. Annie Sloan is a paint legend and one of the world's most popular experts in the field of decorative painting. In Colour...
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D. Porthault: The Art of Luxury Linens

Brian D Coleman - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

Inspired French luxury for the home. Take a peek inside private upper class homes that reveal why D. Porthault has been the favored French luxury brand for linens and other fabrics for nearly one hundred years. Tour traditional and old-world styles as well as contemporary upmarket decor...
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Shrubs: Discover the Perfect Plant for Every Place in Your Garden

Andrew McIndoe - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Andy McIndoe is one of the world's foremost woody plant experts. In Shrubs, he gives home gardeners the information and advice they need to pick the right shrub for every and condition. Shrubs are the perfect plant - they are low-maintenance, there is a variety for nearly every need,...
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Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruits and Vegetables

Ben Raskin - Roost Books
Format: Print book

A delightful guide--packed with games, activities, and extras--that will satisfy the garden-curious and get families excited about growing their own fruits and vegetables.Have you ever wondered how plants work Or why we eat the fruit of one plant, but the leaves of another What's the big deal...
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Life in the Garden

PENELOPE LIVELY - Viking
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards...
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Deep South Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year - Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi

Nellie Neal - Cool Springs Press
Format: Print book

Our acclaimed Month-by-Month Gardening series gets a fresh update for gardeners located in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. For years, do-it-yourself gardeners in the southern United States have brought their questions to “the Garden Mama” herself, Nellie Neal, for her lifelong...
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The New Terrarium: Creating Beautiful Displays for Plants and Nature

Tovah Martin - Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Format: Hardcover

If you live in the city but want to be close to nature . . . If you call the countryside home but have no time to step outside . . .If you are confined to an office fifty hours a week . . . If your home needs the soothing touch of the natural world . . . In The New Terrarium, Tovah Martin,...
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New Aging: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever

Matthias Hollwich - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Aging is a gift that we receive with life - and in New Aging, the architect Matthias Hollwich outlines smart, simple ideas to help us experience it that way. New Aging invites us to take everything we associate with aging - the loss of freedom and vitality, the cold and sterile nursing...
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Affordable Kitchen Upgrades

Steve Cory - Creative Homeowner; First edition
Format: Paperback

Kitchen remodeling projects can be expensive, but there are alternatives to a full-scale renovation. Affordable Kitchen Upgrades provides those alternatives by supplyinginexpensive design ideas and easy how-to projects that make a large impact on the look and the functionality of a kitchen....
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Miniature Terrariums: Tiny Glass Container Gardens Using Easy-to-Grow Plants and Inexpensive Glassware!

FOURWORDS. - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Small home gardens are growing in popularity, and miniature terrariums are the easiest and least expensive indoor garden of all. The beautiful photos in this book show you how to add a whimsical touch of green to any space: at work, at home, in your dorm room - even in your car!Terrarium...
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My Small Space: Starting Out in Style

Anna Ottum - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

My Small Space is the ultimate guide to moving out on your own--whether that's in a campus dorm, an apartment with four of your friends, a two-bedroom with your buddy, or your very own studio. With photography of all kinds of spaces, smart design tips, interviews with renters, and more,...
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The Tool Book: A Tool Lover's Guide to Over 200 Hand Tools

Phil Davy - DK
Format: Hardcover

This user's guide to over 200 hand tools highlights how to use tools effectively, understand them better, and how to properly care for them.Salute generations of craftsmanship, ingenuity, and know-how with The Tool Book . Explore tools from every angle, with detailed patent drawings,...
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Succulents at Home: Choosing, Growing, and Decorating with the Easiest Houseplants Ever

John Tullock - Countryman Press
Format: Paperback

Grow happy, healthy succulents Succulents have become some of the most popular houseplants, and with good reason: theyre easy to grow ... most of the time. But what happens when a plant outgrows its pot? Did you know succulents can get sunburned? How do you turn one plant into more plants?...
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Get It Together!: An Interior Designer's Guide to Creating Your Best Life

Orlando Soria - Prestel
Format: Hardcover

Move aside, Martha. Out of the way, Oprah. Pack your bags, Amy Sedaris. There's a new lifestyle guru in town!After getting his start years ago on HGTV, Orlando Soria has made his way to the upper strata of the blogosphere with Hommemaker, his blog about home dcor, art, style, and life....
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The Ultimate Gardening Guide: Utah State University's Guide to Common Gardening Questions

KATIE WAGNER - Cedar Fort, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Grow your garden skills with expert advice and proven techniques! This easy-to-use book brings you a bounty of tips and tricks so you're guaranteed a green thumb, even if you've never sown a seed before. Learn how to maximize your space, keep your plants thriving, and save yourself...
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How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart

Summer Rayne Oakes - Optimism Press
Format: Hardcover

Potted plants aren't mere decoration; they offer a rare opportunity to find joy by caring for another living being. Summer Rayne Oakes keeps over 750 live houseplants spanning 400 species in her Brooklyn apartment. She's an environmental scientist, an entrepreneur, and (according to a New...
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Peonies: Beautiful Varieties for Home & Garden

Jane Eastoe - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

A floral gardening guide to the ultra popular peony. From Shawnee Chief to Top Brass, this guide to over 60 varieties of peonies presents an eclectic selection of specimens -- from those with the best visual appearance and the most fragrant perfume, to those that are easiest to grow and produce...
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101 Bold and Beautiful Flowers: Ideas for Year-Round Colour

James Alexander-Sinclair - BBC Books
Format: Paperback

There is nothing more stunning than a garden bursting with color. Whether you want glorious borders or striking pots, 101 Bold and Beautiful Flowers is full of plant ideas and aftercare tips. Grouped by color and with advice on each flower, you can find the perfect plant solutions...
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Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair - 4th Edition

Black & Decker Corporation (Towson - Cool Springs Press
Format: Print book

Learn how to do all of your own home repairs with this comprehensive, visual guidebook! When something breaks in your house, finding and hiring an expensive repairman shouldn't be the only option for homeowners. Next time your faucet springs a leak or that bedroom doorknob punches a hole...
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Handpicked: Simple, Sustainable, and Seasonal Flower Arrangements

INGRID CAROZZI - HARRY N ABRAMS
Format: Print book

Brooklyn-based florist Ingrid Carozzi reveals her secrets for creating flower arrangements that are modern, original, and organic in style. Organized by season, the book presents simple step-by-step instruction (how to measure, cut, and place each bloom) for making more than 35 arrangements....
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Never Too Busy to Cure Clutter: Simplify Your Life One Minute at a Time

Erin Rooney Doland - William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

Whether you have thirty seconds, one minute, five minutes, or fifteen minutes, this organizing daily devotional offers tips, checklists, weekend projects, quizzes, and encouragement that will help you find the time, motivation, and permission to let go of sentimental clutter, set up storage...
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The Ever Curious Gardener: Using a Little Natural Science for a Much Better Garden

LEE REICH - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback

Curious why caressing your cucumber plants will help them bear more fruit? Or why you should grow oranges from seed even if the fruit is inedible? Or why trees need to sleep and how to help them?Join acclaimed gardener, scientist, and author Lee Reich on a journey through the delights of your...
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Your Home, Your Style: How to Find Your Look & Create Rooms You Love

DONNA GARLOUGH - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

The first book from the style director for the popular home decor site Joss & Main is a lively, chic road map to finding and implementing your style at home. In this age of Instagram and Pinterest, there is no shortage of decorating inspiration. Then why is it so hard to make the leap...
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English Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life Magazine

Kathryn Bradley-Hole - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

This is the definitive and most authoritative book ever published on the glories of English gardening--historically and horticulturally, a tour de force.An unprecedented in-depth look at the English garden by one of Britain's foremost garden writers and authorities, this book showcases...
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