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Sustainable Home is a stylish, inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly household.

The phenomenal bestseller - 175,000 copies sold - Everything you wanted to know about chopping, stacking and drying wood.

With hundreds of large, clear photos and drawings, this book show you what you need to know about using a router productively and safely.

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Build your own passive solar greenhouse for year-round food production in any climate Extensively researched, written with personal experience, and full of essential facts and figures rendered simple and accessible. ¿ DARRELL E. FREY, author, The Bioshelter Market Garden A practical, easy-to-read guide that enables anyone to design and build their own sustainable, year-round greenhouse. I highly recommend it for aquaponic growers, and any gardener looking to extend their season. ¿ SYLVIA BERNSTEIN, author, Aquaponic Gardening FRESH, LOCAL, NUTRIENT-DENSE fruits and vegetables are hard to find in winter in cold climates. Growing warm-weather crops like tomatoes, bananas, avocados, or other perennials is nearly impossible using conventional structures. The solution for millions of backyard and small-scale commercial growers is self-heating solar greenhouses.The Year-round Solar Greenhouse is the one-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even in the depths of winter. Topics include the principles of solar greenhouse design, siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction methods. Additionally, an in-depth section covers sustainable ways of heating the greenhouse without fossil fuels, including using thermal mass and storing heat underground with a ground-to-air heat exchanger.Variations include attached solar greenhouses, earth-sheltered greenhouses, plus integrating hydroponics and aquaponics. More than a dozen case studies from across North America provide inspiration and demonstrate specific challenges and solutions for growing year-round in any climate. Grow your own food, anytime, anywhere using the power of the sun! An important resource that will help farmers and greenhouse operators leverage innovation for sustainable and profitable food production. ...This book should be part of your tool kit. ¿ GAELAN BROWN, author, The Compost-Powered Water Heater LINDSEY SCHILLER is a greenhouse designer and is, with co-author Marc Plinke, co-owner of Ceres Greenhouse Solutions. Lindsey has designed, toured, and helped build hundreds of energy-efficient greenhouses spanning small residential structures to acre-size commercial facilities. MARC PLINKE is an inventor-innovator with a PhD in engineering. In recent years he has focused his engineering mindset on building innovative, energy-efficient, and smarter greenhouses, with the intention of enabling people to grow their own food sustainably and year-round.

Embrace mindful decorating and create a comfortable home that is kind to your senses and improves your wellbeing.The Sensory Home will help you to understand whether your home is working for or against you. Layout, colour, texture, scent, lighting and more can be used to create a calming or stimulating environment according to your family's unique needs, including for neurodiverse individuals. This book offers hints and tips as well as long-term solutions to bring your vision of a warm, inviting and harmonious home to life. Chapters covering each room of the house include sensory checklists to help you identify the causes of unconscious stress, whether it be the cluttered kitchen, the dimly lit home office or the unsupportive sofa.

Details Make a Home takes a closer look at the details behind international interiors stylist and art director Hans Blomquist's unique and idiosyncratic take on the world.In hundreds of ravishingly beautiful, inspiring pictures, he encourages the reader to see the world through his own eyes, revealing the possibilities in even the humblest of items and putting together pieces to create striking, painterly, and evocative rooms and displays. Chapter by chapter, Hans focuses on and discusses the key ingredients of his distinctive look: Nature, Texture, Color, Textiles, Collecting, and Display. He explains the creative process, offers up his own treasures, and puts inspiring ideas for beautiful interiors within every reader's reach.

Create a haven of coziness and calm that embraces you as you walk through the door with Chris Myers' effortless styling ideas and tips.Taking a room-by-room approach, Chris describes the essentials of creating coziness from the colors to use, the textiles to incorporate, the decorative accessories and lighting to include, and how to bring a sense of personality and uniqueness to your own space. Using natural, or pre-loved and re-purposed objects is an important element of this ethos. Wherever you live, in an urban apartment, town house, or country cottage, Chris will inspire you to bring comfort and happiness into your space whether by creating a welcoming wreath for the front door made from foraged items, kitchen curtains made from old vintage quilts, eco-friendly natural cleaning products, or lavender bags and scented candles… Your home will become a sanctuary, a home for the soul surrounded by the things you love, a place you will long to return to at the end of the day and one that is kind to the planet too.

Jaw-dropping home transformation advice and secrets from the mega hit authors of Three Birds Renovations.

Featuring illustrated instructions for over 70 joints, this spiral-bound book is the perfect companion for any woodworker interested in improving their joint-making skills.The Joint Book provides easy-to-follow directions for creating edge and scarf joints, lapped and housed joints, mortise-and-tenon joints, miters and bevels, dovetails, and dowels and biscuits, plus detailed descriptions of fasteners, hardware, and knockdown joints. This hardcover book with internal spiral binding is 6.5” × 8”, the perfect size for carpenters and woodworkers to keep near their workbench or toolbox for quick access. The design of this book allows it to lay open flat for easy and frequent reference. The interior photographs, illustrations, and diagrams make the learning process simple and fun for beginners, while advanced readers will gain insight from the book’s useful tips. Within, you’ll find:Step-by-step illustrated instructions for making all the basic joints in every joint family—mortise and tenon, dovetails, miters, and more—and their variations.Both hand tool methods and power tool techniques, plus a variety of easy-to-build jigs.How the nature of wood and its properties affect joinery, glue, and furniture design.The Joint Book is the ultimate workshop reference, providing woodworkers with the knowledge to choose the right joint for the job.

Find your dream home underneath the clutter with this user-friendly tool kit for simplifying our living spaces one room at a time, from the creator of the 15-minute win, Shira Gill.

A comprehensive guide to sharpening for both new and experienced woodworkers, covering both traditional and modern tools.

House Magic teaches you how to transform any space in your home into a sacred sanctuary using the power of crystals, herbs, and flowers.

An accessible, beginner-friendly resource to understand general CNC (Computer Numerical Control) principles and techniques for anyone interested in CNC woodworking and the future of these technologies.

Emily Henson explores the elements that come together to create this eclectic, colourful and contemporary look and draws inspiration from an array of real-life Bohemian Modern homes.

A complete guide to producing desirable wooden objects and furniture for your home from scratch. Discover the satisfaction of making something with your own hands.

Christina Strutt of Cabbages & Roses reveals how to have a calmer, healthier, eco-friendly home.

The tenet of this book is provide a tool for artists/blacksmiths and metalworkers. It tells how to work metal: heating it, cutting it, upsetting it, drawing it out, twisting it, forge welding it and shaping and assembling it. It tells about metallurgy and tool making, metal finishes and corrosion, sources of information and supplies, charts and guidelines for many tasks. It explains the process of design, how to use the computer in metal design, how to set up a business and how to manage it. Providing an inspiration for all blacksmiths are portfolios of the wrought iron work of Martin Rose and Samuel Yellin, two of America's premier metalworkers of the past. To further inspire and to show the new focus of blacksmithing in the metal arts, six contemporary metalworkers show a series of demonstration pieces of their iron work. This 256 page book is bound with an improved binding system (Otabind) that allows the pages to lay flat.

Australia's no. 1 home improvement book

This comprehensive and practical book demystifies the all-important subject of choosing, designing, and cutting woodworking joints. It's packed with insightful information and tricks of the trade that will advance the work of novices and seasoned craftsmen alike.

A guide to woodworking's most versatile tool that includes a thorough analysis on everything needed to know in order to purchase, setup, use and maintain a band saw. It details what woodworkers need to know before purchasing a saw, including the eight questions to ask before buying a used saw.

Items like spheres within spheres can be made with basic wood turning skills. This book shows you how. 3-D illustrations show views of work in progress, making the instructions even easier to follow. The introductory chapters describe the equipment required and give advice on wood selection, setting out the work, and workshop health and safety.