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 from maintaining communication with builders, architects and your spouse throughout a project, to commute planning, Wiggins leaves nothing out. Building Your Home: A Simple Guide to Good Decisions is filled with beautiful photos of homes, gardens and materials, sketches, and detachable pages and sections to pen in responses that make the book interactive and adaptable to any level of home building. Wiggins goes beyond just a check-list of how to build a home, helping the reader create a realistic and all-encompassing plan in order to achieve what they really want in a home.
Brown Books Publishing Group
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9781612549408
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Paperback
Easy, Beautiful Handmade Rag Rugs
By David, Deana
Learn the timeless craft of making rag rugs!Scrap-friendly guide to making rag rugs entirely by hand, accessible for all ages and skill levels16 fun and easy rag rug projects that anyone can achieve, with step-by-step instructions and coordinating photographyLearn different techniques for rag rug making, including rug hooking, punch needle, braiding, and moreHow to make a design, choose fabrics and materials, dye them, and other essential basicsRag rug making is easy and fun for everyone of all ages!With no loom, no machines, and no crocheting required, this engaging and accessible project guide will show you step-by-step how to make beautiful rag rug crafts completely by hand from start to finish!Low cost and easy for beginners, rag rug making is a homesteading tradition that emphasizes upcycling scrap materials and fabrics, making the craft sustainable and eco-conscious.
Landauer
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9781639810062
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Paperback
Inside Outside
By O'keeffe, Linda
An outdoor room is an extension of the home - a space that can used for entertaining, relaxing, cooking, playing, swimming, and more. In spaces large and small, outdoor rooms offer a retreat from daily life and a connection to nature. In Inside Outside, Linda O'Keefe - former creative director of Metropolitan Home - inspires readers to create outdoor living spaces that offer an oasis of comfort and style. O'Keefe uses the language of interior design to inform her approach to exterior design, focusing on space, structure, movement, mood, and furniture. Inside Outside is filled with private gardens from North America and Europe that are inspiring and illustrative examples. Readers will learn about the importance of structure from a garden in New York's Hudson Valley, the role of color from a home in Santa Monica, the element of surprise from a backyard in Paris, and much more. Stylishly designed and filled with hundreds of photographs, Inside Outside is a must-have for design-obsessed homeowners and gardeners.
Timber Press
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9781604698268
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Hardcover
Garage Sale Decorator's Bible
By Kincaid, Shelley
New Color Photographs add to this terrific do it yourself decorating and crafts book. Select the projects you want as seen on "Home Matters", "The Carol Duvall Show", "Decorating with Style" and "Kitty Bartholomew." Over 77 projects with complete step by step instructions, hundreds of decorating tips and ideas and a pricing guide with over 1100 items priced out for garage sale bargains. Whether you are a crafter, a do-it-yourself decorator, on a budget or a garage sale aficionado--you must have this book. Yes, Shelley's Tuffet and the instructions are included in this must have. You'll love the new color photographs! Watch for Shelley on TV doing projects right out of the book and enjoy her own show, "Trash to Treasures."
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Feline Books
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9780965546119
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Paperback
The Wisdom of Flowers
By Marvin, Liz
This beautifully illustrated book will share the infinite wisdom of flowers,providing inspiration from nature to gain perspective,resilience and live a beautiful life.. Taking sixty of the world's most amazing flowers and flowering plants, including the corpse flower from Indonesia, the bat-face cuphea and the chocolate cosmos flower from Mexico, the Pohutukawa tree from New Zealand, the lipstick tree and the giant water lily from South America, the voodoo lily from the Mediterranean, the lesser-known plum blossom and the skeleton flower from Japan, and not forgetting the beautiful jade vine from the Philippines, this book will share their unique symbolism and the characteristics and strengths that allow them to thrive, inspiring us to follow their example and make the most of every moment.
LOM Art
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9781912785896
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Hardcover
In A Mexican Garden
By Levick, Melba G.
The team behind the best-selling Mexicolor and Mexicasa has unlocked the gates to Mexico's patios, courtyards, and walled gardens. From private homes to luxurious resorts, In A Mexican Garden celebrates Mexico's hidden oases where lovers meet for margaritas at sunset and families gather for spirited fiestas. The dazzling array of featured properties includes rustic coastal hideaways, elegant Spanish Colonial mansions, rural haciendas, and Modernist architectural masterpieces. Melba Levick's stunning photographs capture page after vibrant page of bold Mexican design elements: swirling mosaic floors, elaborate frescoes, hand-carved stone fountains, and lush native plants. Gina Hyams' informative text explains the historic roots of these uniquely Mexican outdoor spaces.
Chronicle Books
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9780811841306
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Paperback
100 Weekend Projects Anyone Can Do
By Handyman, Editors At The Family
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 no great skills, just normal tools you already have and easy-to-buy materials available at any home store. Here's a small sample of what's inside: Build a simple-but-stylish bookcase Cut garage clutter with oversized shelves Double your closet space with easy accessories Build a rock-solid workbench in 3 hours Maximize kitchen storage with clever cabinet inserts Build backyard furniture, a garden arbor, planters and more! Benches, garden and deck chairs Outdoor storage Quick projects like bird houses, handy hints, and more
Building Your Home
By Wiggins, Kristina Leigh
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 from maintaining communication with builders, architects and your spouse throughout a project, to commute planning, Wiggins leaves nothing out. Building Your Home: A Simple Guide to Good Decisions is filled with beautiful photos of homes, gardens and materials, sketches, and detachable pages and sections to pen in responses that make the book interactive and adaptable to any level of home building. Wiggins goes beyond just a check-list of how to build a home, helping the reader create a realistic and all-encompassing plan in order to achieve what they really want in a home.
Easy, Beautiful Handmade Rag Rugs
By David, Deana
Learn the timeless craft of making rag rugs!Scrap-friendly guide to making rag rugs entirely by hand, accessible for all ages and skill levels16 fun and easy rag rug projects that anyone can achieve, with step-by-step instructions and coordinating photographyLearn different techniques for rag rug making, including rug hooking, punch needle, braiding, and moreHow to make a design, choose fabrics and materials, dye them, and other essential basicsRag rug making is easy and fun for everyone of all ages!With no loom, no machines, and no crocheting required, this engaging and accessible project guide will show you step-by-step how to make beautiful rag rug crafts completely by hand from start to finish!Low cost and easy for beginners, rag rug making is a homesteading tradition that emphasizes upcycling scrap materials and fabrics, making the craft sustainable and eco-conscious.
Inside Outside
By O'keeffe, Linda
An outdoor room is an extension of the home - a space that can used for entertaining, relaxing, cooking, playing, swimming, and more. In spaces large and small, outdoor rooms offer a retreat from daily life and a connection to nature. In Inside Outside, Linda O'Keefe - former creative director of Metropolitan Home - inspires readers to create outdoor living spaces that offer an oasis of comfort and style. O'Keefe uses the language of interior design to inform her approach to exterior design, focusing on space, structure, movement, mood, and furniture. Inside Outside is filled with private gardens from North America and Europe that are inspiring and illustrative examples. Readers will learn about the importance of structure from a garden in New York's Hudson Valley, the role of color from a home in Santa Monica, the element of surprise from a backyard in Paris, and much more. Stylishly designed and filled with hundreds of photographs, Inside Outside is a must-have for design-obsessed homeowners and gardeners.
Garage Sale Decorator's Bible
By Kincaid, Shelley
New Color Photographs add to this terrific do it yourself decorating and crafts book. Select the projects you want as seen on "Home Matters", "The Carol Duvall Show", "Decorating with Style" and "Kitty Bartholomew." Over 77 projects with complete step by step instructions, hundreds of decorating tips and ideas and a pricing guide with over 1100 items priced out for garage sale bargains. Whether you are a crafter, a do-it-yourself decorator, on a budget or a garage sale aficionado--you must have this book. Yes, Shelley's Tuffet and the instructions are included in this must have. You'll love the new color photographs! Watch for Shelley on TV doing projects right out of the book and enjoy her own show, "Trash to Treasures." .
The Wisdom of Flowers
By Marvin, Liz
This beautifully illustrated book will share the infinite wisdom of flowers,providing inspiration from nature to gain perspective,resilience and live a beautiful life.. Taking sixty of the world's most amazing flowers and flowering plants, including the corpse flower from Indonesia, the bat-face cuphea and the chocolate cosmos flower from Mexico, the Pohutukawa tree from New Zealand, the lipstick tree and the giant water lily from South America, the voodoo lily from the Mediterranean, the lesser-known plum blossom and the skeleton flower from Japan, and not forgetting the beautiful jade vine from the Philippines, this book will share their unique symbolism and the characteristics and strengths that allow them to thrive, inspiring us to follow their example and make the most of every moment.
In A Mexican Garden
By Levick, Melba G.
The team behind the best-selling Mexicolor and Mexicasa has unlocked the gates to Mexico's patios, courtyards, and walled gardens. From private homes to luxurious resorts, In A Mexican Garden celebrates Mexico's hidden oases where lovers meet for margaritas at sunset and families gather for spirited fiestas. The dazzling array of featured properties includes rustic coastal hideaways, elegant Spanish Colonial mansions, rural haciendas, and Modernist architectural masterpieces. Melba Levick's stunning photographs capture page after vibrant page of bold Mexican design elements: swirling mosaic floors, elaborate frescoes, hand-carved stone fountains, and lush native plants. Gina Hyams' informative text explains the historic roots of these uniquely Mexican outdoor spaces.
100 Weekend Projects Anyone Can Do
By Handyman, Editors At The Family
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 no great skills, just normal tools you already have and easy-to-buy materials available at any home store. Here's a small sample of what's inside: Build a simple-but-stylish bookcase Cut garage clutter with oversized shelves Double your closet space with easy accessories Build a rock-solid workbench in 3 hours Maximize kitchen storage with clever cabinet inserts Build backyard furniture, a garden arbor, planters and more! Benches, garden and deck chairs Outdoor storage Quick projects like bird houses, handy hints, and more