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May 2020
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For the Home: Cleaning and Organizing |
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Green Clean: Natural Cleaning Solutions for Every Room of your Homeby Jill Potvin SchoffThis handy guide provides instructions for eliminating household cleaning products made with harsh chemicals and replacing these toxic cleaning agents with natural, homemade solutions that work on everything from the kitchens and bathrooms to laundry, grills, decks and cars.
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Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Dayby Cassandra AarssenThis book offers easy, inexpensive tips, tricks, and solutions for creating a clean, organized, and functional home with minimal effort needed to maintain it. The truth is you do not need to actually be an organized person to live like an organized person.
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Creative Walls: How to Display and Enjoy your Treasured Collectionsby Geraldine JamesDiscover how to arrange virtually anything from scratch, rearrange the collections you treasure to best effect and begin a journey into color, textures, and themes to create elegant displays that give a home character and charm. This clever guide shows how to create a look that will bring any space to life.
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Nora Murphy's Country House Style: Making your Home a Country Homeby Nora MurphyIn a full-color book, an award-winning lifestyle blogger shares lavishly photographed strategies for implementing country style into any home environment, sharing personal tips while discussing the style's universal elements and how to create striking, individual effects.
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For the Home: Repairs, Remodeling, and Improvements
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Complete Book of Framing: An Illustrated Guide for Residential Constructionby Scot SimpsonA comprehensive guide to rough carpentry and framing, written by an expert with over forty years of framing experience. This book guides the reader through step-by-step framing instructions for floors, walls, roofs, door and window openings, and stairs. Hundreds of full-color illustrations and photos enable novice and professional framers to understand and master framing techniques.
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Bathroom Ideas You Can Use: The Latest Designs, Styles, Fixtures, Surfaces and Remodeling Tipsby Chris PetersonFrom luxurious showers and saunas to chic surfaces, perfect lighting, efficient fixtures, creature comforts, and more, the options available to you are endless. In addition to featuring new and improved ideas, this updated edition of our popular design and inspiration book presents a variety of extra tips and tricks for picking the right accessory or material for your space and keeping it in top condition.
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Bug-Free Organic Gardening: Controlling Pest Insects Without Chemicalsby Anna HessAre you sick and tired of pesky insects in your garden? Do you want to stay away from pesticides and harmful poisons that could be hazardous to your health and your garden? This book will show you how to bring your garden ecosystem into balance so that beneficial insects and larger animals do the work of pest control for you.
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Regrow Your Veggies: Growing Vegetables from Roots, Cuttings, and Scrapsby Melissa RaupachAn insightful guide that provides effective propagation techniques to recycle and regrow more than 20 popular vegetables right at home! Learn how to have a source of fresh and healthy vegetables close by, from onions and sweet potatoes to pineapples and mangoes, reduce waste, and know how to prevent and solve issues with pesky pests and pathogens.
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Outdoor Design: Projects and Plans for a Stylish Gardenby Matt KeightleyAll types of outdoor spaces are covered from a minimalist urban terrace or a verdant courtyard to a suburban family garden or a larger estate. The book is divided into four sections: Showstoppers, Family-friendly, Minimalist, and Plants-Lovers. Each case study discusses the goal or inspiration for the design and includes a detailed plan, a design checklist, and information on the materials and plants used complete with a wealth of gorgeous photographs.
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Homesteading and Handicrafts
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