Books published by Taunton Press Inc

Offers a practical approach to green projects that readers can apply to their own homes. This book evaluates a wide array of projects, including insulating pipes, weatherising doors and windows, composting and recycling. It provides the answer to the many questions relating to the cost of environmentally friendly home improvements.

The bathroom is the most renovated room in the house. This title includes over 360 full-colour photographs from some of the designers and architects. It is suitable for homeowners and contractors working with different budgets or styles.

Whether it's for an intimate dinner party or a bustling family reunion, this book shows homeowners how to create a variety of inviting outdoor spaces, from a fully functional kitchen to a contemplative garden room. It also lays out a full-course menu of plans for dining rooms, dry and wet bars, lighting details, media centres and more.

Going green at home can seem like an all-or-nothing proposition. Do you sell everything (including the house) and start over, building and buying only eco-friendly, renewable goods? The author makes a compelling argument for remodelling. He explains how different choices impact a home's overall green quotient, as well as its bottom line.

If you are planning a new kitchen, remodelling an old one, or just trying to decide what type of cabinets and countertop you want to build and install, this text offers advice from professional designers and builders who are experienced in this type of project.

Provides information on both contemporary and traditional furniture and accessories - and how to combine them. This book contains 500 photographs and drawings.

A cookbook for anyone who wants to cook in accordance with vegetarian values. It opens with 45 'power ingredients' that make vegetarian food satisfying, delicious and healthy. It also includes 80 recipes with headnotes that explain how the 'power ingredients' lend dishes a meaty or fishy flavour.

With only a few turning tools and a lathe, it's possible to create a host of useful and artistic objects. This title covers the tools and techniques needed to get started in turning and then offers up a range of turning projects in which to use them.

Suitable for Homeowners, this collection of articles covers topics ranging from how to use colour and unify an interior with trim to designing a laundry room that works. It poses, and answers, such questions as 'How much space do you really need?'

Spray Finishing offers professional results far superior to brushing or other hand-applied methods. This book and DVD set covers various aspects of spray finishing, from technique to troubleshooting and is suitable for woodworkers of all skill levels. It explains how to choose equipment and demystifies the spray-finishing process.

Part of the "Build Like a Pro" series, this guide provides coverage ranging from base construction techniques to surface materials.

One of the most important tools in any woodworking shop, tablesaws are available in a tremendous variety of styles and prices. This book covers useful tablesaw techniques from the most basic cut to the most advanced joint. It examines things from ripping and crosscutting to cutting coves and multi-sided shapes.

Helps you learn how to build premium cabinetry of superior quality in your own shop. This book simplifies the process of building cabinets by using modern hardware and joinery systems. It shows how to construct easily handled cabinet modules and how to customize face frames, doors, and drawers in the style you choose.

Functional and realistic without being fussy, these toy trucks boast wheels that roll, buckets that lift, and winches that pull. The 12 projects include dumper trucks, tow trucks, log loaders, tankers, tractors, forklifts and a monster truck.

Offers a guide to maximise the potential of small homes and spaces. This book looks at a variety of houses as well as a selection of sheds, studios, and other small structures.

Kaffe's new collection of quilts is showcased in the richly decorated houses and gardens of the old quarter of Fez in Morocco: the perfect partner for his brilliantly coloured designs.

A collection of 15 box-making projects that range from simple through to complex. With each group of projects a woodworking technique related to their construction is introduced and there are clear step-by-step instructions of the key woodworking processes.

Intended to show what to carve, rather than how to carve, this selection of classic designs and pattern ideas, orientated towards more traditional styles of woodworking, can be used for wood carving, wood burning or wood painting.

This guide to wood finishing focuses on the finishes that amateur woodworkers use. It provides up-to-date information, including coverage of spray finishing and the new generation of water-based finishes, and answers to the most common finishing questions.

Covers the fundamental techniques the woodworkers need to know. This book features over 1,200 photos and drawings illustrating how to accomplish essential woodworking tasks from setting up a shop to finishing.

In this completed revised and expanded 3rd edition of The Lathe Book, legendary turning author, teacher, and designer Ernie Conover brings this classic reference book up-to-date, incorporating the many recent innovations in the lathe and its accessories.

Photographed on location at the world-famous Hidcote Manor Garden in the beautiful Cotswolds countryside, Kaffe Fassett displays his latest range of fabrics by revisiting many of his favorite medallion quilt blocks.

In this new collection of small houses from 'Fine Homebuilding' magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodelled, traditional and modern, urban and rural.

Frame Carpentry' distils centuries of hands-on builder-tested methods and techniques as the finest builders in the country pass on their hard-won trade secrets for better construction.