Invite health and happiness into the heart of your home with practical ideas for decor, organization, and mindfulness that will transform your living space - and create an uplifting atmosphere that looks after you from morning to night!Happy by Design teaches us how we can actively improve our health and wellbeing through the way we design and regard every room in the house. From the paint color that's been named the happiest to the science of getting a good night's sleep, Happy by Design offers bite-sized and affordable design ideas that are accessible to all - from a young renter in an urban apartment to a busy family in their own home. Drawing on advice from experts far and wide, Victoria Harrison's Happy Home Program helps everyone transform their living spaces and put personal wellbeing first in their homes and neighborhoods.
Weldon Owen
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9781681884158
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Hardcover
Cozy White Cottage Seasons
By Galvan, Liz Marie
Whether you want to create a cozy winter wonderland in your living room, a blooming summertime welcome on your deck, or an autumn refuge by your fireplace, Liz Marie Galvan's Cozy White Cottage Seasons gives you the inspiring photos, DIY ideas, and fun recipes you need to feel at home on any budget and in every season. DIY interior designer and popular blogger Liz Marie Galvan helps you create space to snuggle up, stretch out, or kick back at home so you can focus on what matters most during the holidays and every day. Following the popularity of Cozy White Cottage, Cozy White Cottage Seasons is a beautiful, full-color photography holiday lifestyle book with easy-to-do, practical tips to make your home a cozy haven from New Year's to the following Christmas.
Thomas Nelson
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9781400224555
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Hardcover
Kitchen Ideas You Can Use, Updated Edition
By Peterson, Chris
From the latest in backsplashes to elegant faucet fixtures, Kitchen Ideas You Can Use, Updated Edition helps you create the kitchen of your dreams. The kitchen is one of the most popular DIY home renovation projects, with simple upgrades and wholesale renovations both contributing to the value of your home. This new edition covers the hottest kitchen DIY remodeling trends, including installing commercial-grade appliances, kitchen technology such as sensor-activated lights and hands-free faucets, creative kitchen storage solutions, and bold fixtures. New in this edition features practical advice on common kitchen issues, like the best products for cleaning different types of finishes, how to re-grout, unclogging a sink, and more. Kitchen Ideas You Can Use, Updated Edition is an essential tool for anyone who is planning a kitchen upgrade or remodel.
Cool Springs Press
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9780760360675
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Paperback
The Hidden Histories of Houseplants
By Bailey, Alice
The Hidden Histories of Houseplants explores 20 of the world's most common houseplants.This book isn't just a dry exploration of historical cultivation; the narrative explores the plants' places in social history, science and culture, showcasing the most fascinating elements of each plant's story, be it the exploration as to why Monstera deliciosa have holes in their leaves, whether houseplants have the ability to count, or why Calathea leaves open during the day and close up at night.Accompanied by stunning illustrations, each text takes the reader on a journey through time, history and culture, told by the most universally binding objects in our homes from London to Beijing - houseplants.
Hardie Grant
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9781784884055
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Hardcover
Birds in Your Backyard
By Dolezal, Robert
Birds are among the most beautiful and intriguing of all living creatures. In fact, it is estimated that more than 70 million Americans are birdwatchers-a huge, growing market tailor-made for attracting, feeding, protecting, and enjoying the many varieties of North American birds. For bird lovers, gardeners, and do-it-yourselfers alike-this comprehensive and richly illustrated volume, together with a little careful planning and planting, will turn your yard into a bird and butterfly oasis.
Readers Digest
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9780762104956
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Hardcover
French House Chic
By Webster, Jane
The ultimate interior design book for anyone who has ever dreamed of living in a French houseIt is more than twelve years since Jane Webster, the poster girl for selling up and following your dreams, bought Chateau Bosgouet, a derelict chateau in Normandy and moved her young family to France. In those twelve years, Jane has established an internationally renowned business, she has shepherded her children through their school years both in France and in Australia, she has made long- lasting friendships in her adopted home and she has spent countless hours observing French style.French House Chic is a glimpse inside the most private of French residences: from supremely elegant Parisian apartments to lavishly upholstered sitting rooms in French country estates. From le salon to la salle de bain and every room in between, here is visual inspiration to achieve the most French look in any space. Or just to be momentarily immersed in all that Gallic flair.This is Jane's very personal story of a lifetime of cultivating an eye for style and bringing it to life in the home - a style that can be emulated with just some simple guidance. It is a book for rethinking: one that will make you want to rearrange your copper saucepans, reupholster your sofa, or book the next flight to Paris. Illustrated in color throughout
Thames & Hudson
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9780500500965
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Hardcover
Green Clean
By Schoff, Jill Potvin
Save money. Save time. Save the earth! Easy ideas that can change the way you clean the house, wash the laundry, and spruce up the exterior of your home Simple cleaning recipes that take minutes to make from ingredients you already have at home Fast techniques that take the pain out of the battle against grime Mom's Choice Awards(R) - Gold Award Winner Why go green? Author Jill Potvin Schoff's search for a cure for her infant son's eczema resulted in her embracing the green cleaning lifestyle. This practical handbook explains how to eliminate toxic chemical household cleaning agents from your life and replace them with natural, homemade solutions! Inspired by the author's experience as the mother of an allergic child, Green Clean provides practical, comprehensive advice for every household cleaning need from kitchen, bathroom, and laundry to windows, floors, grills, decks, and cars. Jill Potvin Schoff shows you how to green up your chores and reduce your family's exposure to hazardous chemicals in every part of your home. Using safe, effective, and inexpensive ingredients and recipes, she offers simple cleaning methods and smart tips that will keep both you and the environment healthy, including advice for: BathroomsShowers and TubsMold and MildewToiletsClearing Drains KitchenSinks and CountertopsCabinetryAppliancesKitchenware LaundryWashing StrategiesDrying StrategiesClothing CareGreen AlternativesStains Around the HouseMaking Widows SparkleWalls and CeilingsCleaning MetalDusting FloorsHardwood, Laminate, Bamboo, and LinoleumTile, Stone, Rubber, Vinyl, and ConcreteRug and Carpet Care FurnishingsWood FurnitureUpholsteryWindow Treatments Outside the HouseSidingMasonryRoofingExterior MetalworkDecksDriveways, Walkways, and PatiosOutdoor Furniture and FabricsBackyard Grill Garage, Workshop, and BasementGarage FloorsCarsWorkshop ToolsPaint ProblemsLawn MowersPesticidesBasements "Give your home a good, green scrubbing, and you, your cats and your home will be sparkling, happy and healthy." - LISA HANKS, PETCHA.COM
Creative Homeowner
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9781580118316
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Paperback
The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens
By Chisholm, Linda A
The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the key moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of the most influential gardens, Linda Chisholm explores how social, political, and economic influences shaped garden design principles. The book is organized chronologically and by theme, starting with the medieval garden Alhambra and ending with the modern naturalism of the Lurie Garden. Sumptuously illustrated, The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens is for garden designers and landscape architects, design students, and gardening enthusiasts interested in garden history.
Timber Press
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9781604695298
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Hardcover
The Water-Saving Garden
By Penick, Pam
A guide to growing beautiful gardens in drought-prone areas utilizing minimal water for maximum results.With climate change, water rationing, and drought on the rise, conserving water is more important than ever - but that doesn't mean your gardening options are limited to cacti and rocks. The Water-Saving Garden provides gardeners and homeowners with a diverse array of techniques and plentiful inspiration for creating outdoor spaces that are so beautiful and inviting, it's hard to believe they are water-thrifty. Including a directory of 100 plants appropriate for a variety of drought-prone regions of the country, this accessible and contemporary guide is full of must-know information on popular gardening topics like native and drought-tolerant plants, rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, permeable paving, and more.
Ten Speed Press
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9781607747932
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Print book
Be Bold
By Jeffers, Jay
Livable luxury in edgy, modern design. Jeffers' San Francisco design studio creates luxurious but livable homes across the country, from Napa Valley and the Bay Area to Colorado, Texas, Florida, and New York. Be Bold showcases his newest projects, the epitome of what is stylish in today's modern world. Jay's inspiring first book, Collected Cool, focused on the inventive use of color, pattern and vintage furnishings designed for a creative collection of houses and apartments.
Happy by Design
By Harrison, Victoria
Invite health and happiness into the heart of your home with practical ideas for decor, organization, and mindfulness that will transform your living space - and create an uplifting atmosphere that looks after you from morning to night!Happy by Design teaches us how we can actively improve our health and wellbeing through the way we design and regard every room in the house. From the paint color that's been named the happiest to the science of getting a good night's sleep, Happy by Design offers bite-sized and affordable design ideas that are accessible to all - from a young renter in an urban apartment to a busy family in their own home. Drawing on advice from experts far and wide, Victoria Harrison's Happy Home Program helps everyone transform their living spaces and put personal wellbeing first in their homes and neighborhoods.
Cozy White Cottage Seasons
By Galvan, Liz Marie
Whether you want to create a cozy winter wonderland in your living room, a blooming summertime welcome on your deck, or an autumn refuge by your fireplace, Liz Marie Galvan's Cozy White Cottage Seasons gives you the inspiring photos, DIY ideas, and fun recipes you need to feel at home on any budget and in every season. DIY interior designer and popular blogger Liz Marie Galvan helps you create space to snuggle up, stretch out, or kick back at home so you can focus on what matters most during the holidays and every day. Following the popularity of Cozy White Cottage, Cozy White Cottage Seasons is a beautiful, full-color photography holiday lifestyle book with easy-to-do, practical tips to make your home a cozy haven from New Year's to the following Christmas.
Kitchen Ideas You Can Use, Updated Edition
By Peterson, Chris
From the latest in backsplashes to elegant faucet fixtures, Kitchen Ideas You Can Use, Updated Edition helps you create the kitchen of your dreams. The kitchen is one of the most popular DIY home renovation projects, with simple upgrades and wholesale renovations both contributing to the value of your home. This new edition covers the hottest kitchen DIY remodeling trends, including installing commercial-grade appliances, kitchen technology such as sensor-activated lights and hands-free faucets, creative kitchen storage solutions, and bold fixtures. New in this edition features practical advice on common kitchen issues, like the best products for cleaning different types of finishes, how to re-grout, unclogging a sink, and more. Kitchen Ideas You Can Use, Updated Edition is an essential tool for anyone who is planning a kitchen upgrade or remodel.
The Hidden Histories of Houseplants
By Bailey, Alice
The Hidden Histories of Houseplants explores 20 of the world's most common houseplants.This book isn't just a dry exploration of historical cultivation; the narrative explores the plants' places in social history, science and culture, showcasing the most fascinating elements of each plant's story, be it the exploration as to why Monstera deliciosa have holes in their leaves, whether houseplants have the ability to count, or why Calathea leaves open during the day and close up at night.Accompanied by stunning illustrations, each text takes the reader on a journey through time, history and culture, told by the most universally binding objects in our homes from London to Beijing - houseplants.
Birds in Your Backyard
By Dolezal, Robert
Birds are among the most beautiful and intriguing of all living creatures. In fact, it is estimated that more than 70 million Americans are birdwatchers-a huge, growing market tailor-made for attracting, feeding, protecting, and enjoying the many varieties of North American birds. For bird lovers, gardeners, and do-it-yourselfers alike-this comprehensive and richly illustrated volume, together with a little careful planning and planting, will turn your yard into a bird and butterfly oasis.
French House Chic
By Webster, Jane
The ultimate interior design book for anyone who has ever dreamed of living in a French houseIt is more than twelve years since Jane Webster, the poster girl for selling up and following your dreams, bought Chateau Bosgouet, a derelict chateau in Normandy and moved her young family to France. In those twelve years, Jane has established an internationally renowned business, she has shepherded her children through their school years both in France and in Australia, she has made long- lasting friendships in her adopted home and she has spent countless hours observing French style.French House Chic is a glimpse inside the most private of French residences: from supremely elegant Parisian apartments to lavishly upholstered sitting rooms in French country estates. From le salon to la salle de bain and every room in between, here is visual inspiration to achieve the most French look in any space. Or just to be momentarily immersed in all that Gallic flair.This is Jane's very personal story of a lifetime of cultivating an eye for style and bringing it to life in the home - a style that can be emulated with just some simple guidance. It is a book for rethinking: one that will make you want to rearrange your copper saucepans, reupholster your sofa, or book the next flight to Paris. Illustrated in color throughout
Green Clean
By Schoff, Jill Potvin
Save money. Save time. Save the earth! Easy ideas that can change the way you clean the house, wash the laundry, and spruce up the exterior of your home Simple cleaning recipes that take minutes to make from ingredients you already have at home Fast techniques that take the pain out of the battle against grime Mom's Choice Awards(R) - Gold Award Winner Why go green? Author Jill Potvin Schoff's search for a cure for her infant son's eczema resulted in her embracing the green cleaning lifestyle. This practical handbook explains how to eliminate toxic chemical household cleaning agents from your life and replace them with natural, homemade solutions! Inspired by the author's experience as the mother of an allergic child, Green Clean provides practical, comprehensive advice for every household cleaning need from kitchen, bathroom, and laundry to windows, floors, grills, decks, and cars. Jill Potvin Schoff shows you how to green up your chores and reduce your family's exposure to hazardous chemicals in every part of your home. Using safe, effective, and inexpensive ingredients and recipes, she offers simple cleaning methods and smart tips that will keep both you and the environment healthy, including advice for: BathroomsShowers and TubsMold and MildewToiletsClearing Drains KitchenSinks and CountertopsCabinetryAppliancesKitchenware LaundryWashing StrategiesDrying StrategiesClothing CareGreen AlternativesStains Around the HouseMaking Widows SparkleWalls and CeilingsCleaning MetalDusting FloorsHardwood, Laminate, Bamboo, and LinoleumTile, Stone, Rubber, Vinyl, and ConcreteRug and Carpet Care FurnishingsWood FurnitureUpholsteryWindow Treatments Outside the HouseSidingMasonryRoofingExterior MetalworkDecksDriveways, Walkways, and PatiosOutdoor Furniture and FabricsBackyard Grill Garage, Workshop, and BasementGarage FloorsCarsWorkshop ToolsPaint ProblemsLawn MowersPesticidesBasements "Give your home a good, green scrubbing, and you, your cats and your home will be sparkling, happy and healthy." - LISA HANKS, PETCHA.COM
The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens
By Chisholm, Linda A
The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the key moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of the most influential gardens, Linda Chisholm explores how social, political, and economic influences shaped garden design principles. The book is organized chronologically and by theme, starting with the medieval garden Alhambra and ending with the modern naturalism of the Lurie Garden. Sumptuously illustrated, The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens is for garden designers and landscape architects, design students, and gardening enthusiasts interested in garden history.
The Water-Saving Garden
By Penick, Pam
A guide to growing beautiful gardens in drought-prone areas utilizing minimal water for maximum results.With climate change, water rationing, and drought on the rise, conserving water is more important than ever - but that doesn't mean your gardening options are limited to cacti and rocks. The Water-Saving Garden provides gardeners and homeowners with a diverse array of techniques and plentiful inspiration for creating outdoor spaces that are so beautiful and inviting, it's hard to believe they are water-thrifty. Including a directory of 100 plants appropriate for a variety of drought-prone regions of the country, this accessible and contemporary guide is full of must-know information on popular gardening topics like native and drought-tolerant plants, rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, permeable paving, and more.
Be Bold
By Jeffers, Jay
Livable luxury in edgy, modern design. Jeffers' San Francisco design studio creates luxurious but livable homes across the country, from Napa Valley and the Bay Area to Colorado, Texas, Florida, and New York. Be Bold showcases his newest projects, the epitome of what is stylish in today's modern world. Jay's inspiring first book, Collected Cool, focused on the inventive use of color, pattern and vintage furnishings designed for a creative collection of houses and apartments.