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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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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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Cacti: An Illustrated Guide To Varieties, Cultivation And Care, With Step-By-Step Instructions And Over 160 Magnificent Photographs

Terry Hewitt - Peony Press
Format: Paperback

The cacti is surprisingly easy to grow and this book offers everything you need to know at a glance in one handy and superbly illustrated practical guide; as well as a directory of 50 recommended varieties there is expert advice on planting, cultivation and care.
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Homesteading From Scratch: Building Your Self-Sufficient Homestead, Start to Finish

Steven Jones - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

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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Old Home Love

Candis Meredith - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

Get to know the couple (and the houses) behind HGTV's newest hit series, Old Home Love. Andy and Candis Meredith believe there's nothing that can't be fixed. Their passion for saving and renovating old homes, which caught the attention of HGTV, sparked the creation of their...
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The Anatomy of Sheds: New Buildings from an Old Tradition

JANE FIELD-LEWIS - GIBBS SMITH INC PUB
Format: Print book

Super-cool spaces to relax, work, chill out, or escape. Over 50 real examples from around the world -- some simple and modest and some extravagant -- inspire and instruct the reader on how to create their own special space. The owners themselves describe how they have created their own hideaways,...
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Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes

Nicole Curtis - Artisan
Format: Print book

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller For the first time, Nicole Curtis, the star of the megahit HGTV and DIY Network show Rehab Addict, reveals her private struggles, her personal victories, and the inspiring lessons we can all learn from them. Part celebrity...
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The Anatomy of Color: The Story of Heritage Paints & Pigments

PATRICK BATY - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

The history of paint and color in interior design, spanning a period of three centuriesWhy were primary colors popular in postwar kitchens? Why did the Art Deco era prefer clean lines and pastel shades? This comprehensive illustrated history of the use of color and paint in interior decoration...
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The complete outdoor builder : from arbors to walkways : 150 DIY projects

Black & Decker Corporation (Towson - Cool Springs Press

Provides step-by-step instructions for the do-it-yourselfer on how to build such backyard or garden structures as patios, decks and porches, fences, walls, pathways, sheds and outbuildings, and accessories.
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Building Small: Sustainable Designs for Tiny Houses & Backyard Buildings

David Stiles - Popular Woodworking Books
Format: Paperback

Live large by building small! Do you daydream about downsizing your living space? Or perhaps you long for a more eco-friendly and sustainable way of life. The tiny house movement continues to gain popularity as more and more people look to simplify their lives and reconnect with nature.Building...
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Life Unstyled: How to embrace imperfection and create a home you love

Emily Henson - Ryland
Format: Print book

Life Unstyled is about taking inspiration from real homes that are beautiful, creative and inspiring but at the same time a little rough around the edges, with signs of everyday life evident throughout. We are bombarded by perfect interiors, images that aren't attainable because they have...
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Basic Prepping Essentials: Weapons

JOHN J WOODS - Permuted Press
Format: Paperback

What can Basic Prepping Essentials offer you? Insights on guns, ammunition, products, strategies and tactics from the prepper point of view: what you need, what you want, what works and what's worth it.The work of prepping and survival planning is serious business these days, but it must...
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Organization Hacks: Over 350 Simple Solutions to Organize Your Home in No Time!

Carrie Higgins - Adams Media
Format: Paperback

Fix your cluttered cabinets, overflowing drawers, and messy living areas with these tips, tricks, and project ideas from Carrie Higgins, the organization expert of the Making Lemonade blog.. Carrie Higgins has made it her mission to share fresh ideas for the home on her blog Making Lemonade....
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One Buck at a Time: An Insider's Account of How Dollar Tree Remade American Retail

Macon Brock - John F. Blair
Format: Print book

For over thirty years, Dollar Tree has succeeded at something the retail industry thought impossible: selling goods of surprising quality for no more than a dollar apiece, and in the process earning profits that defy common sense.In One Buck at a Time, company cofounder Macon Brock leads...
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Visual Merchandising, Third edition: Windows and in-store displays for retail

Tony Morgan - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Print book

A great introduction for retail students, this book offers a user-friendly reference guide to all aspects of visual merchandising and covers both window dressing and in-store areas. Using examples from a range of shops, from fashion emporia to small outlets, the book offers practical advice...
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Composting Basics: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics)

Eric Ebeling - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback

How to recycle household waste to make quality compostYou dont need a science degree or a shed full of sophisticated equipment to make quality compost. What you need to get started is the know-how provided in this basic how-to book along a little elbow grease and the pile of organic materials...
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Wiring Simplified: Based on the 2017 National Electrical Code

FREDERIC P HARTWELL - PARK PUB
Format: Print book

This 45th edition - part of a series continuously published for more than 80 years and based on the 2017 National Electrical Code - is a handy instruction manual that has been used by generations of readers to learn the "why" as well as the "how-to" of wiring practices....
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Modern Vintage Style

Emily Chalmers - Ryland Peters & Small
Format: Hardcover

In Modern Vintage Style, Emily Chalmers - interiors stylist and owner of hip boutique Caravan - shows how using vintage items in a contemporary context can introduce humor, flair, and personality to any home. Think antique and brand new, machine-made and handcrafted, shiny smooth...
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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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In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

Grace Bonney - Artisan
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...
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Home Improvement Projects for the Busy & Broke: How to Get Your $h!t Together and Live Like an Adult

Christina Salway - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

Searching for a house or apartment is difficult enough on its own; transforming it into your home is an entirely different story, especially for those who have never lived on their own before. As millenials create their first homes away from home, they are bombarded with constant DIY ideas...
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The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medicinal Use

GREG GREEN - Green Candy Press
Format: Paperback

The most comprehensive guide to marijuana gardening ever written is back with all new information and updated advice for cannabis enthusiasts. Over 200 additional pages of all new information are included in this book, from all new lighting equipment and techniques, to highly advanced cannabinoid...
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Open House: Reinventing Space for Simple Living

AMANDA PAYS - Gibbs Smith
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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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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Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Compost Food Waste, Produce Fertilizer for Houseplants and Garden, and Educate Your Kids and Family

MARY APPELHOF - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under...
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Annie Sloan Paints Everything: Step-by-step projects for your entire home, from walls, floors, and furniture, to curtains, blinds, pillows, and shades

Annie Sloan - Cico Books
Format: Print book

In this, her most personal book yet, Annie Sloan opens up a world of possibilities when it comes to decorating your home. As well as ways to transform walls and furniture, you ll also learn wonderful techniques for painting floors, fabrics, lighting, and more. Discover three chapters, all packed...
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Wiring Complete: 3rd Edition

Michael W Litchfield - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

The third edition of this best-selling volume is a comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use reference for homeowners covering all home wiring situations from the most basic to advanced. Wiring Complete is a highly visual book focused on real world situations faced by homeowners and real...
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She Sheds: A Room of Your Own

Erika Kotite - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Create your very own hideaway right at home with She Sheds.They've got their man caves, and it's time for you to have a space of your own. She Sheds shows you how to create cozy getaways with inspiration from across the country. Start by defining the goal and purpose of your...
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Change Your Home, Change Your Life with Color: What's Your Color Story?

Moll Anderson - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

What is your color story? There is a reason we dream in color. Color speaks louder than words - it can not only brighten your home; it can brighten your life. Color can transform a room - your mood, your family, and even your well-being. Are you living life in color - or living in neutral?...
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Camper Rehab: A Guide to Buying, Repairing, and Upgrading Your Travel Trailer

Chris Peterson - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback

Old campers have an appeal that reaches back in time and can send your imagination soaring. Let's face it: they are cool. Who hasn't seen one parked on a boulevard with a "for sale" sign and pictured it bouncing along behind the family car, ready for adventure and fun?...
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Country Living Salvage Style: Decorate with Vintage Finds

Leslie Linsley - Hearst
Format: Hardcover

Salvage style - decorating with repurposed and vintage items like wicker furniture, cast-iron tubs, polished marble, industrial pendant lights, and even tractor seats - has become a chic way to create unique, personal rooms. By reclaiming honest materials and collectibles, large and small,...
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For the Love of Old: Living with Chipped, Frayed, Tarnished, Faded, Tattered, Worn and Weathered Things That Bring Comfort, Character and Joy to the Places We Call Home (Rizzoli Classics)

Mary Randolph Carter - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

This stunning volume focuses on the qualities of the old things in our homes (the patina of an old table, pewter dulled by age, old floorboards that creak) and how to live with and incorporate them into our personal aesthetic. Divided into chapters by the qualities of old - peeling, dried,...
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Modern Homesteading

LIVING THE COUNTRY LIFE. - Weldon Owen
Format: Hardcover

An accessible guide for the aspiring modern homesteader from the craftsmen at Living the Country Life magazine! Grow your own crops, raise backyard animals, and preserve your bounty for the winter months and beyond. Once upon a time, people had a real connection with the land. Instead...
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Fairy Houses: How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk

Sally J Smith - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Add an exquisite flourish of design to your beloved green space or garden by adding tiny fairy homes inter-woven with nature. Fairy Houses gives you the instruction and inspiration you need! Have you ever seen a real fairy house? Not the ceramic ones at cavernous home improvement...
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The Big Book of Small Home Plans: Over 360 Home Plans Under 1200 Square Feet

Design America Inc. - Creative Homeowner
Format: Paperback

Select from a catalog of more than 360 expertly prepared plans for building small homes - 1,200 square feet or less!Over 360 plans to select from for building a variety of small homes 1,200 square feet or underEasy-to-follow construction blueprints and materials lists are available for each...
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Decorating on the Waterfront

Carleton Varney - Shannongrove Press, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

A must-have for anyone with a home by the water Decorating advice and inspiration from one of Architectural Digest's 'Deans of Design', Carleton VarneyGorgeous images of private homes and villas never published before in exotic locations such as Palm Beach, Florida and St. Croix,...
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Healing Herbs: How to Grow, Store, and Maximize Their Medicinal Power

Dede Cummings - W W Norton
Format: Paperback

Dig into the world of herbal medicine with this complete guide to cultivating and harvesting plants with healing properties. For thousands of years, people have been utilizing herbs and cultivating weeds found to speed the healing of wounds, soothe skin irritations, calm uneasy stomachs,...
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The Cancer Survivor's Garden Companion: Cultivating Hope, Healing and Joy in the Ground Beneath Your Feet

Jenny Peterson - St. Lynn's Press
Format: Print book

THE BOOK IN 19 WORDS: A CANCER PATIENT DISCOVERS THAT GARDENING IS GOOD MEDICINE - AND FINDS A POWERFUL HEALING PARTNER IN HER OWN BACKYARD. Jenny Peterson is a breast cancer survivor. Her long road through cancer treatment was hard, emotional and often deeply depressing. The one thing...
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The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books

Marta McDowell - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

"For gardeners, botanists, and fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder, this book looks at the beloved Little House on the Prairie author's relationship to nature." - Publishers Weekly The universal appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books springs from a life lived in partnership with...
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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

Tracy Disabato-Aust - Timber Press
Format: Print book

"This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice." - Real Simple Gardeners everywhere have benefited from the trusty advice, reassuring tone, and helpful illustrations of The Well-Tended Perennial Garden. Now this completely revised third edition introduces...
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Llewellyn's 2017 herbal almanac : herbs for growing & gathering, cooking & crafts, health & beauty, ... history, myth & lore

Llewellyn. - Llewellyn
Format: Print book

An Herbal Infusionof Inspiration and All-Natural Wellness With recipes, crafts, gardening tips, and herbal lore, Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac is now in its 17th year of providing new ideas and perspectives for gardeners and herb lovers. Including recipes for cordials and infusions, cranberry...
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The House that Pinterest Built

DIANE KEATON - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

A compelling account of Diane Keaton's dream house, from idea to realization in brick, stone, and wood. Keaton's narrative and inspirational images will inspire all those who imagine the perfect home. At once a style guide, an inspirational tome, and a how-to volume on creating one's...
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Junk Beautiful: Furniture ReFreshed: 30 Clever Furniture Projects to Transform Your Home

Sue Whitney - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Re-using and re-inventing vintage castoffs as home furnishings take center stage in today's home decor, as these one-of-a-kind treasures create uniquely personal spaces. Best-selling author and junking maven Sue Whitney unleashes her JUNKMARKET Style on furniture and accessories that make...
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A White House Christmas: Including Floral Design Tutorials

Laura Dowling - Stichting Kunstboak
Format: Hardcover

* From the best-selling author of Floral Diplomacy (ISBN: 9789058565587) * Christmas is the busiest season of the year with over 100,000 visitors to the White House during December* Includes 15 how-to projects for recreating a White House Christmas at home Christmas at the White House...
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Modern Farmhouse Style: 250 Ways to Harmonize Rustic Charm with Contemporary Living

Country Home - Weldon Owen
Format: Hardcover

Move over, shabby chic: The new farmhouse look is all about clean lines and modern shapes, paired with rustic textures and clever upcycled decor ideas from the country life. With Modern Farmhouse Style, you can now achieve that farmhouse aesthetic in your own home - no matter where you reside.This...
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Black & Decker Complete Guide to DIY Greenhouses 2nd Edition: Build your own greenhouses, hoophouses, cold frames and greenhouse accessories

Cool Springs Press. - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback

Find all of the most up-to-date information you need to design and equip your own greenhouse, all in one place!Black & Decker Complete Guide to DIY Greenhouses is a new edition to the popular Complete Guide to Greenhouses & Garden Projects. Laser-focused on building...
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The Modern Organic Home: 100 DIY Cleaning Products, Organization Tips, and Household Hacks

NATALIE WISE - Good Books
Format: Hardcover

Home is a haven, a place of refuge. But did you know it might be making you sick? If your home is cluttered, overwhelming, and full of chemicals, it's time to detox. The Modern Organic Home helps you de-clutter and clean with natural, homemade products that are healthy for you and your...
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Make Yourself at Home: Design Your Space to Discover Your True Self

Moorea Seal - Sasquatch Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the blockbuster hit journals The 52 Lists Project and 52 Lists for Happiness, comes a book to help you design your space to discover what is really important to you and express the creativity and style you already have! This book is all about beautifying your life inside...
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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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Prefabulous Small Houses

Sheri Koones - Taunton Press
Format: Hardcover

Prefab home construction has come into its own. Prefabricated homes used to be considered inferior to houses built on site, but not anymore. In Prefabulous Small Houses, best-selling author Sheri Koones presents 32 stunning prefabricated homes from around North America. 250 beautiful...
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Garages 2nd Edition: Design, Build, Remodel & Maintain Your Garage - Includes 9 Complete Garage Plans

Cool Springs Press - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback

If you are planning to build a new garage, this is the one-stop guide where you'll find several new and complete sets of building plans for garages of the most popular sizes and styles. If building a new garage is where you want to go, the BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide to Garages will show...
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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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Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms

Erin Benzakein - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

From Erin Benzakein, a leader in the locaflor farm-to-centerpiece movement and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm, Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspiration - a book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements...
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City Farmhouse Style: Designs for a Modern Country Life

KIM LEGGETT - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Come along on the hunt to coveted country sources and the best secret antiquing spots, and learn how to create country farmhouse style in your city dwelling. Author Kim Leggett is the creator of City Farmhouse, an interior design business, pop-up antiquing fairs, and vintage store. She is also...
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