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Chronicle Books LLC
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2011
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"[An] amazing interior design bible . . . It's full of inspirational creative advice and really is a feast for the eyes!" —Flowerona
In Decorate, the world's top designers and leading decor experts including Kelly Wearstler, Amy Butler, Jonathan Adler, and many others come together to share over 1,000 professional tips, ideas, and solutions for every room and every budget. Written and compiled by Holly Becker, founder...
In Decorate, the world's top designers and leading decor experts including Kelly Wearstler, Amy Butler, Jonathan Adler, and many others come together to share over 1,000 professional tips, ideas, and solutions for every room and every budget. Written and compiled by Holly Becker, founder...
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Hundreds of simple strategies to keep expenses down at home (and in the garden)!
This handy guide resurrects the fine art of frugal housekeeping with over five hundred tips on saving money throughout the home and garden. Learn creative ways to cut back, pinch pennies, reduce, recycle, and re-use. Want to save on the grocery bill? Buy the whole chicken rather than individual cuts. Get more wear out of your wardrobe? Add a dash of salt to...
This handy guide resurrects the fine art of frugal housekeeping with over five hundred tips on saving money throughout the home and garden. Learn creative ways to cut back, pinch pennies, reduce, recycle, and re-use. Want to save on the grocery bill? Buy the whole chicken rather than individual cuts. Get more wear out of your wardrobe? Add a dash of salt to...
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If you're like most people, you have too much stuff and too little storage space. In this easy-to-use guide, Donna Smallin shows you how to create an efficient and clutter-free life using a common-sense approach to item-by-item storage. With 500 quick and effective strategies to creatively solve all of your vexing storage issues, Smallin offers proven techniques that will not only help you find a place for everything, but easily find everything you're...
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From the founder of a popular home and lifestyle retailer, a guide to hosting parties year-round, with ideas for food, décor and themes.
Mary Carol Garrity, founder of Nell Hill's, tries to guarantee that her customers shopping trips are worthwhile by personally providing them with inspiration on how to improve their homes and decor. This book is the culmination of her many years of experience both selling tabletop and listening to her customers...
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Bring order to your hectic life, quickly and efficiently. Donna Smallin offers innovative ideas and effective solutions to the busy person's daily battle with both physical and mental clutter. This easy-to-follow guide includes 500 strategies that will help you make your world a more orderly place so that you can spend more time enjoying the things that really matter. Even if you don't have time for a top-to-bottom organizational makeover, you can...
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Discover how frugal gardening can lead to fantastic results! Rhonda Massingham Hart provides practical, time-tested tips that stretch your dollar even as they yield beautiful, bountiful plants. From starting seeds to preserving produce, Hart's advice ensures that you won't waste time and money while growing your own vegetables, flowers, houseplants, or landscape foliage. Perfect for thrifty gardeners of all levels, The Dirt-Cheap Green Thumb covers...
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Whether you live on a small suburban lot or have a many acres in the country, this inspiring collection will empower you to increase your self-sufficiently and embrace a more independent lifestyle. A variety of authors share their specialized knowledge and provide practical instructions for basic country skills like preserving vegetables, developing water systems, keeping farm animals, and renovating barns. From sharpening an axe to baking your own...
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Buying a home should be fun and easy. You'll start with a ton of questions-inside this book are the answers! What you'll learn: How to increase your chances of getting a mortgage How to determine property values The difference between a Foreclosure, a Short Sale, and an REO All about home inspections, title search, closing costs and more!
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It was only when Gundy started to do public speaking that he realized most sellers and buyers knew very little about property transactions. When he spoke to the Taranaki Property Investors Association, despite the fact they had previously had national profile speakers, they agreed he was the best they had engaged. They said he was a consummate public speaker who spoke with great enthusiasm and had the gift of being able to energise and carry the audience...
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Contrary to the perception that the home is a safe environment, a person is ten times more likely to sustain a serious injury or die at home as a result of an accident than in the course of their employment. This book will help homeowners combat those odds by providing information adapted from proven techniques used by safety professionals. Filled with anecdotal descriptions and examples, the book offers much more than "safety tips" as it educates...
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This book features:
Sizing up the problem
Tools & how to use them
Painting
Fixing scratches, squeaks, scrapes, & chips
Repairing leaks & clogs
Electrical repairs you can do
What to do about mold, mildew, moss & dry rot
Pets & pests
Yard work
Energy efficiency
Creating a year-round home-maintenance schedule
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The BLACK+DECKER Codes for Homeowners 4th Edition is a DIY-friendly guidebook to building codes that shows you just the information you need for the codes that actually impact today's homeowners. Get those home projects you've been putting off done-and up to code. All of the most common standards are addressed in this new edition of BLACK+DECKER Codes for Homeowners, including plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and construction. This guidebook goes...
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Energy Independence is the essential guide to the most viable and affordable alternative energy solutions for the everyday consumer-including solar panels, wind generators, hydrogen fuel cells, wood, hydro-electric, geothermal heat pumps, and more. For all those seeking either to supplement their traditional fuel-burning furnace or to revamp their home, this book has what they need to get started. They'll learn about the most progressive and advanced...
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Renting Your Recreational Property for Profit contains everything you need to know to rent out your cottage/condo/holiday home professionally and profitably, with minimum stress. Author Heather Bayer guides you from the first tentative step of deciding to open up your vacation home guests, to what you will need to have in place before they arrive--and everything in between.
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“So, You Want to Buy a House in Florida” is the complete guide to buying, owning and selling a vacation rental home in that state. It is written by a UK ex-pat who is a Realtor, a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) and who, with his wife Christina (who is also a Realtor) bought their first property near Orlando in 2004. At that time, information on the buying process was very difficult to find and even now, if you want to get a complete picture, you have...
17) Everything You Need to Know About Garage & Yard Sales: Be Better Organized, Have Fun, and Sell More
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Everything You Need to Know about Garage & Yard Sales: Be Better Organized, Have Fun, and Sell More provides you with the information you should consider when deciding to have a garage or yard sale, as well as easy step-by-step guidance on organization and management. The useful tips and strategies in Everything You Need to Know about Garage & Yard Sales is the only reference you need to get started and accomplish your desired level of success. Author...
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This book features organizing ideas for the Kitchen Bathroom Clothing and linen closets Bedroom Entryways, mudroom and laundry area Home office Children's spaces Pets and their gear Attics, basements, and garages Ideas for small homes and apartments How to organize your organiaing: creating a year-round schedule
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Few of us enjoy cleaning: it often feels like a thankless, repetitive task which we force ourselves to do. Linda Thomas is an expert, professional cleaner who ran her own ecological cleaning company for over twenty years. In this unique book, she explores her passion for cleaning, and argues that cleaning can have a profound effect not just on the spaces we care for, but on our own wellbeing and personal development. This lively and readable book...
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