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Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes
Nicole Curtis - Artisan
Format: Print book
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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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Naturally Bug-Free: 67 Nontoxic Recipes for Repelling Mosquitoes, Ticks, Fleas, Ants, Moths & Other Pesky Insects
Stephanie L. Tourles - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book
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Protect yourself, your children, your pets, and your home from bugs - without using harsh or toxic chemicals! Herbalist Stephanie Tourles offers 75 simple recipes for safe, effective bug repellents you can make at home from all-natural ingredients. For protection from mosquitos, ticks,... |
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Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending Up with More
Erin Boyle - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone looking to declutter, organize, and simplify, author Erin Boyle shares practical guidance and personal insights on small-space living and conscious consumption. At once pragmatic and philosophical, Simple Matters is a nod to the growing consensus that living simply and purposefully... |
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The Garden in Every Sense and Season
TOVAH MARTIN - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover
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So much of gardening is focused on the monthly checklists, seasonal to-do lists, and daily upkeep - weed this area, plant these seeds, prune this tree, rake these leaves, dig this hole - frantically done all year long. But what about taking the time to truly enjoy the garden in every sense?... |
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Planting for Honeybees: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Buzz
Sarah Wyndham-Lewis - Quadrille Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Of the 25,000 known species of bee worldwide, only seven species are honeybees. Bees and plants have a sophisticated and delicate symbiosis. In recent years, the shrinking of green spaces has endangered the honeybee. Now Planting for Honeybees shows you how you can help these delightful... |
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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty
Lisa Mason Ziegler - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback
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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 CHAOS Cure: Clean Your House and Calm Your Soul in 15 Minutes
Marla Cilley - Seal Press
Format: Paperback
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With the help of New York Times bestselling author and housekeeping guru Marla Cilley, you'll cure your household CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome) by changing your messy home into a soothing sanctuaryAre you suffering from CHAOS, otherwise known as Can't Have Anyone Over... |
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Planting Native to Attract Birds to Your Yard
Sharon Sorenson - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback
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Welcoming birds to your yard isn't about choosing the right feeders and bird food. If you want to attract the widest range of birds to your home, you need to plant a diversity of native plants. Why go green? Native plants live longer; they are drought resistant, take less water and fertilizer,... |
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The Martha Manual: How to Do
MARTHA STEWART - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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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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Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff
Alison Stewart - Chicago Review
Format: Print book
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Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying... |
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Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs
Whitney Cranshaw - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
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This second edition of Garden Insects of North America solidifies its place as the most comprehensive guide to the common insects, mites, and other "bugs" found in the backyards and gardens of the United States and Canada. Featuring 3,300 full-color photos and concise, detailed text, this... |
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Good Housekeeping Simple Household Wisdom: 425 Easy Ways to Clean & Organize Your Home
Good Housekeeping - Hearst
Format: Print book
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Your home is the place where you're free to relax, entertain, and express your personality. Filled with fabulous photographs of every room, plus genius tips, savvy shortcuts, and quick fixes for tidying, decluttering, organizing, adding style, and more, Good Housekeeping Simple Household... |
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High-Yield Vegetable Gardening: Grow More of What You Want in the Space You Have
Colin McCrate - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book
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You won't believe your eyes when you see the size of your harvest! In High-Yield Vegetable Gardening, authors Colin McCrate and Brad Halm show you how you can make your food garden much more productive, no matter how big or small it is. You'll learn their secrets for preparing the soil,... |
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Good Housekeeping Simple Organizing Wisdom: 500 Quick & Easy Clutter Cures
Good Housekeeping - Hearst
Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate guide to decluttering! Good Housekeeping helps you organize your home, simplify any task, and tidy up fast. Let the experts at Good Housekeeping help you get organized with this inspirational room-by-room guide to tidying up! Hundreds of tips and tricks include... |
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Prefabulous small houses
Sheri Koones - The Taunton Press
Format: Print book
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Prefab home construction has arrived. The benefits of buildings a prefab home (they are better built, use resources more efficiently, and are healthier to live in) apply just as well to vacation homes as they do to primary residences. Prefabulous Small Houses explores the beauty, variety,... |
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Green Clean: Natural Cleaning Solutions for Every Room of Your Home
Jill Potvin Schoff - Creative Homeowner
Format: Paperback
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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... |
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How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History
ELIZABETH H DOW - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History provides answers to the question: when someone dies or it's time to move --- or just clean out the attic, garage, or basement, what papers and other things should we save for the sake of history and what can we safely... |
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The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
Joshua Becker - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Useful Book: 201 Life Skills They Used to Teach in Home Ec and Shop
David Bowers - Workman Publishing
Format: Print book
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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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Home by Design: Transforming Your House Into Home
Sarah Susanka - Taunton Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sarah Susanka's first three books have launched a revolution in residential architecture with the message that it's not the size of the house that matters, but the quality of its design and details. Her books strike a chord in homeowners, who are finding that bigger doesn't... |
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Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home
Sarah Susanka - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback
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The Not So Big House created a movement that is changing the way people think about the American home. That groundbreaking book proposed a new blueprint for the American home: a house that values quality over quantity, with an emphasis on comfort and beauty, a high level of detail, and a floor... |
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Composting for a New Generation: Latest Techniques for the Bin and Beyond
Michelle Balz - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback
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Composting is no longer only in the realm of environmentalists! It's not just about reducing food waste; most composters get their hands dirty because of the benefits it brings to the soil in their garden. All the extra nutrients makes for well-fed gardens with plenty of nutrients and rich... |
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Not So Big House, The: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
Sarah Susanka - Taunton Press; Expanded ed. edition
Format: Paperback
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Ten years ago, Sarah Susanka started a revolution in home design with a deceptively simple message: quality should always come before quantity. Now, the book that celebrated that bold declaration is back in a special anniversary edition. In this landmark home design book, America's... |
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Life to the Extreme: How a Chaotic Kid Became America's Favorite Carpenter
Ty Pennington - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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As a kid, Ty Pennington had too much energy. He was chaotic, bouncing off the walls, and on a first-name basis with the local emergency room staff. Back then there wasn't public awareness of attention deficit disorder yet. People just thought Ty was rambunctious. A trouble maker. What do you do with... |
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Organic Gardening: The Natural No-dig Way
Charles Dowding - UIT Cambridge Ltd.
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, Charles Dowding shares the wealth of his experience, explaining his approach to soil and plants and revealing the range of techniques that have enabled him to grow healthy and vibrant crops for decades. His success is based on a key principle of "no dig" - not digging.... |
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Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
Dana K. White - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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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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Beautifully Organized: A Guide to Function and Style in Your Home
Nikki Boyd - Paige Tate Select
Format: Hardcover
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"Professional organizer Nikki Boyd has a gift of transforming a space into a captivating work of art. She sprinkles a little bit of glam and a whole lot of functionality into every space she touches." -Toni Hammersley, A Bowl Full of Lemons, Author of The Complete Book of Home... |
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Hand-Built Outdoor Furniture: 20 Step-by-Step Projects Anyone Can Build
Katie Jackson - Timber Press
Format: Paperback
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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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The Flower Chef: A Modern Guide to Do-It-Yourself Floral Arrangements
Carly Cylinder - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Print book
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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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Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave
Joanna Gaines - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well as a range of other homes,... |
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-to-Basics Guide
John Seymour - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Embrace off-grid green living with a new edition of the bestselling classic guide to a more sustainable way of life from the father of self-sufficiency.For over 40 years, John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more responsible, enriching, and eco-friendly choices with his advice on living... |
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No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
Katie Elzer-Peters - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback
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No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants. Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash!... |
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Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life
Francine Jay - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Do you ever feel like life is weighing you down? Like the stuff in your home, the to-dos in your schedule, the worries in your heart are too much? Make "lightly" your mantra, one lovely little word to live by, and transform your life.There's no shortage of decluttering books on the market,... |
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How to Make Space: An inspired guide to a clearer mind and home
Arlene Unger - White Lion Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Often life seems to be about having or achieving more, but what happens when we choose less? Discover the joys of simplicity and moderation with practical exercises to clear your home, calendar and mind. Through fascinating anecdotes and intriguing vignettes, How to Make Space reveals... |
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Grow What You Love: 12 Food Plant Families To Change Your Life
Emily Murphy - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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An accessible guide that shows how easy it is to grow your favorite produce. Grow What You Love is designed to be a simple guide to growing vegetables, herbs and more that will add to the flavor and variety of fresh produce choices throughout the year. Aimed at novice and experienced... |
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The Art of Natural Cleaning: Tips and techniques for a chemical-free sparkling home
Rebecca Sullivan - Kyle Books
Format: Hardcover
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This handy little guide is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to keep their home sparklingly clean without resorting to chemical products. Rebecca draws on traditional cleaning techniques, bringing them up to date to suit the modern home. Taking the time to create your own cleaning... |
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The New Bohemians Handbook: Come Home to Good Vibes
Justina Blakeney - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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The New Bohemian Handbook guides readers in beautifully simple techniques for adding good vibes and style to living spaces. Packed with hundreds of ideas for bringing positive energy to your home, the book features exercises and activities for thinking about rooms in new ways.... |
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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
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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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Container Theme Gardens: 42 Combinations, Each Using 5 Perfectly Matched Plants
Nancy J. Ondra - Storey Pub.
Format: Print book
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Simple and foolproof! Enjoy beautiful container plantings with no stress or fuss. Container Theme Gardens offers 42 plans for container arrangements, each using just five specific plants that you can find at your local garden center. There's something here for every setting and every... |
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Grow Native: Bringing Natural Beauty to Your Garden
Lynn M Steiner - Cool Springs Press
Format: Print book
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Learn how to transform your yard into a beautiful landscape using native plants!You don't have to compromise beauty for natural landscapes with ecological responsibility and sustainability. In master gardener Lynn Steiner's book Grow Native, you'll find guidance for planting... |
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100% Pallet: From Freight to Furniture: 21 DIY Designer Projects
Aurélie Drouet - Scriptum Editions
Format: Book
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Turn old wooden pallets into chic furniture with this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to making bookshelves, chairs, lamps, and more - with 21 designer projects Artists have long been inspired by the often - literally - priceless treasure of discarded packing materials, and the field... |
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Electrical wiring residential lab manual
Walter C Bartlett - Thomson Delmar Learning
Format: Book : English : 3rd edView all editions and formats
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Covers the basics of residential wiring in both new and existing homes, offering step-by-step instructions for performing critical tasks and updated coverage of energy conservation laws and NEC requirements. |
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Plant Parenting: Easy Ways to Make More Houseplants, Vegetables, and Flowers
Leslie F. Halleck - Timber Press
Format: Paperback
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"Everything a plant parent needs to take their plant collection - and plant knowledge - to the next level." - Maria Failla, founder, Bloom & Grow Radio podcast Do you have a passion for houseplants? A desire to grow more tomatoes? Do you want a garden bursting with... |
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The Biggle Garden Book: Vegetables, Small Fruits and Flowers for Pleasure and Profit
Jacob Biggle - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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When The Biggle Garden Book was first published in 1908, most people were in the habit of raising their own food and flowers. Jacob Biggle felt that a gardener's success had to do with willpower and passion rather than acreage. "The man, woman or youngster who really wants a garden,... |
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Susie Coelho's Everyday Styling : Easy Tips for Home, Garden, and Entertaining
Susie Coelho - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Susie Coelho's down-to-earth personality and practical smarts about bringing beauty to life have won her millions of fans. Now, in "Susie Coelho's Everyday Styling," she offers a liberating plan for infusing personal style into readers' home and gardens, often without... |
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Rachel Ashwell: My Floral Affair: Whimsical Spaces and Beautiful Florals
RACHEL ASHWELL - CICO Books
Format: Hardcover
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Discover Rachel Ashwell's floral inspirations and the unique touch she brings to interiors in her first book dedicated to flowers, a deeply-held passion come to life. Flowers and floral decoration are at the core of Rachel Ashwell's world and her designs. From her showcase rose garden in California,... |
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Shelfie: Clutter-clearing ideas for stylish shelf art
Martha Roberts - Mitchell Beazley
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist, color blogger and shelfie fanatic Martha Roberts shows you how to source, sort and arrange your belongings into stylish shelfies for home and workspace.An interesting response to the clutter-clearing movement has been 'the shelfie' as a decorating trend... |
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The Art of Discarding: How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy
Nagisa Tatsumi - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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The book that inspired Marie Kondo's The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Nagisa Tatsumi's international bestseller offers a practical plan to figure out what to keep and what to discard so you can get - and stay - tidy, once and for all.Practical and inspiring, The Art of Discarding... |
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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
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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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Wood Pallet Projects: Cool and Easy-to-Make Projects for the Home and Garden
Chris Gleason - Fox Chapel Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Wood Pallet Projects shows how anyone can upcycle salvaged pallet wood to create truly one-of-a-kind furniture and accessories. Maverick craftsman Chris Gleason combines sound woodworking techniques with a hip designer's sensibility to unleash the limitless possibilities of the common... |
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Vern yip's design wise : your smart guide to a beautiful home
Vern Yip - Running Press
Format: Print book
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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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Whiskey in a teacup
Reese Witherspoon - Touchstone
Format: Book
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Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.Reese Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination... |
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The Wellness Garden: Grow, Eat, and Walk Your Way to Better Health
SHAWNA CORONADO - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback
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If you love to garden but also worry about the physical strain, or if you are in search of ways to promote a healthier lifestyle, and even combat specific, chronic, health issues, then noted garden author and speaker Shawna Coronado has good news for you.
In The Wellness Garden,... |
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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
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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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