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Explore the finest home and home decor books, including top interior design guides and stylish decorative books. Find on our online bookstore for bestsellers and highly recommended reads to elevate your home design.
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Go Solar with Confidence: How to Buy a Solar Energy System That Is Right for YouWhy haven't you gone solar yet?If you've been disappointed by your confusing choices and unanswered questions about solar energy, you're not alone. If you've ever thought you might make the wrong choice or miss out--you're probably right. If you've known that you want to...
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Organize Pack Move!: Strategies and Money-Saving Ideas to Simplify Your MoveYou're busy, you're moving and you don't have time to read a long book or spend hours online searching for answers to your moving questions. Organize Pack Move is the moving reference guide full of concise information to save you time, money and energy...
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Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality"Guess who's coming to dinner?" With Ruth Stout, you never knew Would it be sweet-tempered temperance activist, Carrie Nation, who smashed the windows of illegal saloons with a hatchet? Would it be her younger brother, Rex Stout, who finagled his way onto Teddy Roosevelt's...
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Residential Geothermal Systems: Heating and Cooling Using the Ground BelowNEW EXPANDED EDITION with color illustrations and spacious 8.5 x 8.5 format adds detailed descriptions of the components of the heat pump, open loops systems and important decisions that the homeowner must make. Interest in residential geothermal systems has grown as more people realize...
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How to Build a Healthy Home: And Prevent the Negative Impacts on Your Health that Can Result from Poorly Executed Green Building InitiativesBuilding or Remodeling? If you want your home to be healthy, you need this book.A lot of new houses are being built "green". Green does not mean healthy. Green means environmentally friendly and energy efficient building practices. It's nice to think about the environment...
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Condo Board Election Revolt! How Florida's First Condo Ombudsman Became the 500-Pound GorillaThe integrity of elections in condominium associations has been seriously compromised. Legislative reforms are required to ensure that condo owners have democratic election procedures in place that are firmly enforced. Valmore Lucier served as Chief Election Monitor under Florida's first Condo Ombudsman, Dr. Virgil...
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Making Peace With Your Stuff: Say Yes to Less!It's hard to be a peace with your stuff if you are living with things that you don't love, that don't fit you now, and that don't align with your lifestyle. A 68 page handbook that is chock full of ideas for how to...
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Power with Nature, 3rd Edition: Renewable Energy Options for HomeownersTake a step toward self-reliance by harnessing free energy from the sun, wind, water, and the earth to power your home. Power with Nature will get you started on the right path, whether you are connected to the grid or far from the nearest...
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How to Build a Wind Pump; Second EditionGood for developed or developing countries, the wind pump described in this book can pump rainwater, greywater, river, pond or well water for irrigation, aerate a fish pond, run a water feature or even be a bird scarer. This system does not generate electricity....
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Alaska Homesteader's Handbook: Independent Living on the Last FrontierThe Alaska Homesteader's Handbook is a remarkable compilation of practical information for living in one of the most impractical and inhospitable landscapes in the United States.More than forty pioneer types ranging from their mid-nineties to mid-twenties describe their reasons for choosing to live their...
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Estimator's General Construction Manhour ManualThis manual provides the reader with an accurate and convenient method for estimatig direct labor for general contrsuction work for any given system, plant, or location. Though this book, the reader has a reliable process of obtaining and streamlining an efficent model of operation.Author:...
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Essential Earthbag Construction: The Complete Step-By-Step GuideBuild economical and resilient earthbag structures using simple tools and techniques. Earthbag construction- building with polypropylene bags usually filled with earthen materials- is a versatile, easy-to-master, low-impact, and highly durable form of building, suitable for structures from houses to root cellars.Containing over 75 photos...
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The Modern Homesteader's Guide to Keeping GeeseRaise a gaggle of geese, the unsung heroes of the small farm While chickens preen in the spotlight, geese are the historic unsung heroes of small farms and homesteads. Providing weed control, large eggs, and entertainment, and acting as security over other animals, geese...
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Earth-Sheltered Houses: How to Build an Affordable Underground HomeThe only how-to manual on the subject directed to mainstream owner-builders An earth-sheltered, earth-roofed home has the least impact upon the land of all housing styles, leaving almost zero footprint on the planet. Earth-Sheltered Houses is a practical guide for those who want to...
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Homes Around the WorldHomes Around the World takes a fascinating look at what it is that makes a home and how climate and geography often determine the kinds of houses people live in. Other topics include: - people who live on the water where they make their...
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Clear the Clutter: Make Space for Your LifeWhy do you never have clean clothes when you need them? Why do you never know where you put something for safekeeping? And why does your life feel so out of control? Whether you need to know how to organize your laundry, weekly shopping,...
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The Hempcrete Book: Designing and Building with Hemp-Limevolume 5The Hempcrete Book is a detailed practical manual for architects, surveyors, professional builders and self-builders. It explains how to source and mix hempcrete and how to use it in new builds and restoration. In colour throughout, fully illustrated with beautiful photographs, this book provides...
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Fiona Barratt-Campbell: ElementalThe first book to showcase the award-winning work of interior designer and entrepreneur Fiona Barratt-Campbell, whose interiors marry a sense of opulence with bold, material simplicity. Fiona Barratt-Campbell established Fiona Barratt Interiors in 2006 and is increasingly recognized as one of Britain's leading figures...
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Making Rooms Your Own: Lessons from Interior DesignersAn invitation to enter the residences of some of the top interior designers in the world--see their style and practicality in action, and adopt some of their winning ways. With pillows fluffed and curtains pulled back, design secrets are revealed. From established masters of...
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Achille SalvagniA meticulously curated glimpse at the career of a design-world superstar. Stylistically, Salvagni is an avowed modernist; his work displays an elegant economy of means that is utterly contemporary, writes Pilar Viladas. Yes, his work consistently bears the weight of history--not in overt references,...
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