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Don’t manage the mess–banish it with Design Ideas for Home Storage. Here’s how to keep frequently used items nearby yet neat; archive important papers, photos, and family keepsakes; organize closets; manage clothing overflow; store seasonal items, such as sporting gear or holiday decorati...
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Sumptuous spreads of exquisitely grilled food; step-by-step prize-winning recipes; lists of ingredients plus preparation and grill/cook times; expert tips on techniques and the latest equipment; delectable marinades, sauces, and rubs: Char-Broil’s Everybody Grills! ...
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Ultimate Guide to Masonry & Concrete, 3rd edition: Design, Build, Maintain
מאת Editors of Creative Homeowner Ultimate Guide to Masonry and Concrete, 3rd edition, covers a wide range of masonry subjects, including basic installations, specific projects, and common repairs with concrete, block, brick, stone, tile, and stucco. Readers will find the information they need on tools, materials, a...
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In this reference book for creating a sophisticated lighting design for inside the home or outdoors, author Sally Storey, an internationally recognized lighting designer, shares her expertise about how to use lighting effectively for improved function and to add dynamic visual statements i...
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Today's homeowners are looking to create additional storage space in the home with the most design flair possible. Ultimate Guide to Cabinets, Shelves & Home Storage Solutions addresses a problem that is common to all homeowners: lack of adequate storage. The bo...
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This is the ideal guide to realizing the true potential of your bathroom - from simple shower rooms to sumptuous master suites. This richly illustrated volume - featuring more than 500 photo illustrations - provides readers with all the information and inspiration they need to add a touch of style t...
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Creative Homeowner's new title in its tremendously successful home plan series, Home Plans for Baby Boomers offers readers over 300 best-selling designs featuring main-level master suites. The book's subtitle pretty much sums up what it's about: Finding the "me" in Boomer;...
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Written with the do-it-yourselfer in mind, Barns, Sheds & Outbuildings gives readers the information they need to plan, build, and finish a utility building. This revised and expanded edition presents a variety of buildings, from the simplest garden shed to a huge gambrel dairy barn to a backya...
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Dining rooms are out ... Eat-in Kitchens are in. Today's lifestyle is informal, and with housing and energy costs as high as they are, reserving a room just for dining on special occasions doesn't make sense for most people. Besides, kitchens are larger today to accomm...
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Ultimate Guide to Kids' Play Structures and Tree Houses is a complete guide to building a wide range of outdoor play structures, including a central tower to which a swing set and monkey bar can be attached in various configurations or built as stand-alones. In addition, there are ...
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Packed with colorful step-by-step instructions to help guide readers along the way from preparation through finished project. Staple reference guide for any do-it-yourselfer looking to take tiling into his or her own hands. More than 260 full-color how-to illustrations and over 30 color photos....
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As with all of the books in the 1001 Ideas series, 1001 Ideas for Decks is packed with design solutions, building techniques, and the latest information on deck materials, including cutting-edge recycled and composite materials. 1001 Ideas for Decks leads the reader through the de...
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Porches and Sunrooms is the perfect reference tool for homeowners who are considering adding or renovating a porch, sunroom, or conservatory. Topics include planning and designing the -outdoor room+ to bridge the indoors and outdoors, basic information on the room+s structure, and details on what a ...
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Ultimate Guide to House Framing, 3rd Edition, leads homeowners through the steps of building a structure by means of platform framing, the most popular style of framing in use today. The book also covers the latest in eco-friendly materials as well as green framing techniqu...
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How to plan, build, and maintain a pond or fountain with step-by-step do-it-yourself sequences and easy-to-understand text. Covers plant and fish selection, how to install pond shells or dig out a watercourse. More than Over 175 full-color illustrations and 40 color photos....
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For any do-it-yourselfer, nothing is more rewarding than completing a project that’s not only functional, but also makes a welcome addition to the home. Among these projects, outdoor furniture has always been a DIY favorite. Easy-to-Build Backyard Projects offers places to pot and...
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This Smart Guide shows readers how to build and finish their own garage or carport from the ground up. The most essential information readers need to successfully handle each task is packed into this concise construction manual. Information on reading blueprints is also included.
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Whether readers are deciding on the type of pond that best suits their wants and needs or trying to decide whether a stream or a waterfall fits better into their landscape, Smart Guide: Ponds, Waterfalls & Fountains has it all. Completely rewritten and packed with all-new full-colo...
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Ultimate Guide: Wiring demystifies residential electrical systems through easy-to-understand language and the use of step-by-step photography and detailed illustrations. Homeowners will learn how their home's electrical system works and complete installations and repairs themselves...
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Ultimate Guide: Plumbing is an updated and expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's comprehensive, best-selling plumbing how-to book. The most up-to-date products and techniques are covered. For the how-to information, strong emphasis is placed on doing things correctly, so all the ...
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Smart Guide®: Trim, 2nd Edition is an all-new photographic edition of a best-seller that shows readers how to select and install the right molding and trim for their homes. The book describes room preparation, tools, planning the layout, cutting molding and trim, installation, fin...
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Garden Secrets for Attracting Birds provides information that readers can use to turn their yards and gardens into a mecca for birds. The book details the habits and tendencies of many popular North American birds and shows the plants and trees that attract specific species. Readers...
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Design Ideas for Flooring is the ultimate guide to the latest materials, products, and styles in flooring. With 450 color photographs, Design Ideas for Flooring amply illustrates every choice in flooring--wood, stone, ceramic tile, decorative concrete, carpeting and rugs, laminate...
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Complete Houseplants provides homeowners with all the information they need to incorporate plants in the interior design of their homes. The book covers the basics of choosing the right plants for the home, selecting containers, and plant arranging. Sections on proper care and lig...
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For a fresh approach to color in the home, look no further than Can't Fail Color Schemes. This book allows readers to coordinate paint colors, textures, and accessories while factoring in such things as light effects and psychology of color. Heavy on photographical examples of working sche...
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Smart Guide®: Basements, All-New 2nd Edition, provides readers with the information they need to convert their dark, dreary basements into bright, airy living spaces. Readers learn how to eliminate moisture problems, change rough concrete walls and floors into finished surf...
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The Earth-Friendly Home: Save Energy, Reduce Consumption, Shrink Your Carbon Footprint (The Green House)
מאת David R. Goucher Almost everything we do results in the production of CO2, but simple steps in our daily lives can make a huge difference. Each individual can decrease his or her carbon footprint. The Earth-Friendly Home: Save Energy - Reduce Consumption - Shrink Your Carbon Footprint<...
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As a showcase of Signature Kitchens & Baths magazine's top kitchens, The Best of Signature Kitchens provides a glimpse of 110 modern, state-of-the-art kitchens from leading designers around the country. With numerous possibilities, it is no wonder why this cornerstone space...
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Toro knows lawns, and with this book, homeowners will have Toro at their side, helping them maintain a beautiful yard through authoritative step-by-step text, 350 color photos, and 101 full-color illustrations. For more than eight decades, Toro has been intimately involved in the cultivati...
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The Smart Approach to Small-Space Living gives the small house or apartment dweller the design advantage with professional advice for creating a beautiful, comfortable environment. Hundreds of gorgeous photographs amply illustrate the designer tips and know-how that is explained with reg...
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Design Ideas for Fireplaces is the ultimate guide to the latest materials, products, and styles in fireplaces and wood- and gas-burning stoves. With 450 color photographs, Design Ideas for Fireplaces amply illustrates every choice in fireplaces and stoves, from masonry firep...
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Decks continue to be one of the most popular additions to homes today as more and more homeowners seek to enjoy outdoor living and expand living space. Ultimate Guide to Decks, 4th edition: Plan, Design, Build leads the homeowner through the process of designing and building a deck,...
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The Little Green Book: 365 Ways to Love the Planet is a "green" guidebook for anyone who want to improve the quality of their life and the life of the planet. Consisting of a year's worth of short tips, tasks, and facts, the book is designed to lead readers to a more healthy, environment...
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Complete Guide to Roses will appeal to anyone who wants roses in their garden. It is ideal for gardeners who have been afraid to grow roses as well as for those who already grow these lovely flowers and want to learn more about them. Unlike many competitive books that originate in...
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Everything a do-it-yourselfer needs to know about tiling floors, walls, counters, patios, and more can be found in Ultimate Guide to Ceramic & Stone Tile. Design and planning information helps readers prepare the site and select the right tile–ceramic, stone, vinyl, glass, and more. Chapters ...
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This is the ultimate guide to designing your perfect kitchen - featuring nearly 500 inspirational full-colour photos. With the fast-pace of modern life, and the resurgence of cooking at home, the kitchen has once again become the centre of attention. "Design Ideas for Kitchens" is a lavishly illustr...
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Storage and garden sheds can add value to any property. Smart Guide: Garden Sheds helps readers make the decisions necessary to obtain maximum value from a new shed. The book covers general principles of selecting a shed style and picking a site for the building. The construction of...
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Smart Guide: Ceramic Tile, 2nd edition, will get readers started on their next household tiling project, no matter how complex it may seem. An all-new edition featuring colorful, instructional photographs instead of illustrations and with in-depth chapters on covering walls an...
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Ultimate Guide to Wiring: Complete Projects for the Home provides homeowners with all the information they need to understand the workings of their home electrical system. With projects and information to serve the novice, the savvy do-it-yourselfer, or the homeowner planning to w...
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Best Signature Kitchens: Over 100 Fabulous Kitchens from Top Designers
מאת Editors of Creative Homeowner As a showcase of Signature Kitchens & Baths magazine's top kitchens, Best Signature Kitchens provides a glimpse of more than 100 modern, state-of-the-art kitchens from leading designers around the country. With numerous possibilities, it is no wonder why this cornersto...
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Found space...that’s what this book is all about. Readers will learn how to maximize the usable but unfinished areas in their house as new living space for their growing family, without the expense of a costly addition and without the trouble of moving to a larger house. Dozens of inspiration...
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Homegrown Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs: A Bountiful, Healthful Garden for Lean Times
מאת Jim W. Wilson Like the Victory gardens of World War II, food gardens planted in sunny back or side yards during these economically challening times can provide families with nourishing, delicious food at a fraction of the cost to buy it at a supermarket. What's more, families know that the food they ...
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Design Ideas for Home Landscaping offers inspiring ideas for achieving a stunning effect with your landscape. Using the information on plant design, expert gardening and planting advice, and the most resilient vegetation for your region, you can maintain a beautiful o...
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Smart Guide: Home Landscaping shows readers how to turn their yards into landscaped spaces. Reakers learn to incorporate hardscapes, trees and shrubs, lawns and ground covers, and flowering plants into their landscapes. ...
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Ultimate Guide to Bathrooms guides the reader through the process of designing and doing the work involved with remodeling an existing bathroom or adding a new one. Homeowners will find inspirational information on layout and design, but most of the book covers the hand-on parts of the p...
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Intended for those who want to enjoy eating super-fresh homegrown produce but don't know how, this book is a concise guide vegetable gardening system for busy people and first-time gardeners. Readers will learn how to set their garden and why the time spent getting r...
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How to reinvent, restyle, and repurpose anything around the house with paint and easy, artful techniques. ...
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Design Ideas for Decks and Patios presents ideas, styles, and the latest trends designed to cater to the outdoor-living needs and desires of today's homeowners. Living it up stylishly in today's casual open-air "rooms" calls for serious design consideration. In this photo-driven book...
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Author Janet Sobesky offers great ideas for interpreting today's hot decorating trend in Natural Style. Comfortable, informal, easy-care, earth-friendly, and by all means pleasing to the eye, Natural Style is inspired by the colors, textures, and motifs of nature.
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After an introductory chapter on how to get started, 14 additional chapters supply scores of tips for every area of the garden, from the kitchen garden to ponds, lawns, patios, and containers. The author uses her years of experience to reveal the most life-changing tricks that can make a ...
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This updated, expanded edition provides inspiring ideas for making the Mid-Atlantic home landscape more attractive and functional. Starting with the 200 best plants that thrive in the region, area landscape professionals created 46 outdoor design concepts readers can work with. More than 430 co...
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Successful Container Gardening: 75 Easy-to-Grow Flower and Vegetable "Gardens"
מאת Joseph Provey Mr. This book describes the advantages to container gardening in words and pictures. It includes more than 300 color photos and 20 illustrations, along with advice for choosing the right container and soil medium; dozens of plant-specific "recipes" for container gardens of flowers, vegetables...
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More Deck Designs shows readers the latest design trends and materials in deck building. Following the format of the best-selling Deck Designs, the new edition features the work of four new deck designers whose work represents four different regions of the country. Created f...
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Smart Guide: Pruning provides information and instruction on the proper methods and techniques for pruning shrubs, roses, trees, hedges, and other perennial plants. The book tells home gardeners why pruning is important and how it can be used to maintain, train, and in some cases, revive d...
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Design Ideas for Windows offers hundreds of ways for dressing a window with hard (blinds and shutters) and soft (curtains, draperies, valances, and fabric shades) treatments. All types of windows are featured in the book, including standard shapes and sizes, as well as special "architect...
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Ultimate Guide to Green Remodeling shows homeowners how they can take part in the "green" revolution through remodeling. Some of the topics covered include reducing home energy use, selecting nontoxic products, saving water, and supporting the environment through the use of products that suppor...
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224 to 608 pagesTrade paper format8.5" x 10.875"Complete how-to informationDozens of step-by-step projects and tasksHundreds of color instructional photographsDozens of color illustrationsDesign and planning informationDozens of inspirational "beauty" photos |
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Everyone knows that changing the window treatment in a room is a quick, easy, and relatively inexpensive way to update a look--whether someone can go the custom route or is a limited budget that requires creative thinking with readymade options. Homeowners who are tired of their interiors ...
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Another updated bestseller in the "Smart Approach" series, The Smart Approach to Kids' Rooms starts with the premise: "Think like a professional." Parents will find all the inspiration and information they need to create any kid's dream room. Chapters include a basic primer on the general prin...
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Home wiring made simple! Smart Guide: Wiring, All-New 2nd Edition, has been entirely re-written and updated--and now features photographs instead of illustrations. It demystifies wiring and empowers do-it-yourselfers with the information they need to keep their home elec...
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Ultimate Guide to Outdoor Projects: Plan, Design, Build (Creative Homeowner Ultimate Guide to...)
מאת Editors of Creative Homeowner There are many ways a homeowner can improve the usefulness, value, and design of their outdoor living spaces, and the Ultimate Guide to Outdoor Projects brings the most popular of those projects together in one complete book. Created to both inspire homeowners by showing the possib...
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Ultimate Guide to Gazebos & Other Outdoor Structures is the one book readers need to build an outdoor retreat that perfectly suits their yard and lifestyle. Readers will find thoroughly illustrated step-by-step instructions with complete materials lists for the most popular gazeb...
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The Smart Approach to Kitchen Design showcases the latest trends and technology and explains how to design a kitchen like a professional. ...
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Ultimate Guide to Architectural Ceiling Treatments shows homeowners how to turn what is wasted space in most homes--the ceiling-- into a distinctive design element. Through inspirational photographs and easy-to-follow text, author Neal Barrett will help readers select the right type of treatmen...
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Providing a unique combination of full-color photography and illustrations, Most-Popular 1-Story Home Plans offers readers 400 plans of the best-selling and stylish home designs available. From convenient ranch homes to traditional cottages, this book offers a wide variety of home...
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Smart Guide: Perennials covers information on designing gardens, improving the soil, planting, fertilizing, and maintaining perennials and bulbs. The book contains information on buying plants, starting plants from seed, and transplanting. Step-by-step photographs illustrate the necessar...
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Northeast Home Landscaping, Including Southeast Canada, shows how to beautify 27 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. 54 design variations incorporate more than 200 of the best plants for the region. Readers also learn all ...
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Decorating to Go presents a case for creating style in a home that will not be permanent...a sublet or rental, a "home away from home," such as an extended stay in another city or country, a college residence, on a military base, or in a transitional space, such as a first ho...
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Trees, shrubs, and hedges are the "bones," or essential framework, of any landscape design. Complete Trees, Shrubs & Hedges explains how to select the finest plants for specific growing conditions, as well as plants that look good together. Over 569 color photographs and 128 illustrations provi...
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Design Ideas for Basements presents hundreds of ideas for turning a basement into stylish, comfortable living space. It also provides the information a homeowner needs to know before embarking on the project, including advice regarding permits, how to tackle moisture issues, providing light and...
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Discover practical ways to create your perfect garden with this one-stop guide to landscaping with stone. Stonescaping is one of the most the most popular outdoor design trends today. Now, you too can learn the tricks for creating stunning stone based design for your garden with this one-stop guide....
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Pools & Spas covers everything from pool selection and installation to landscaping. Includes choosing a pool site, hiring a contractor, and different pool and spa types. |
