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After leaving London in 2005 to embrace country life, Pearl Lowe is ready to return to the city. Now the Faded Glamour author steps into the captivating world of urban interiors with vintage charm.

Award-winning interiors blogger Abi Dare, author of The Soft Minimalist Home, offers a new take on biophilic design using natural materials, colours and textures to bring the outside in.

As machining processes become more advanced, so does the science behind them. This book emphasizes these scientific developments in addition to the more widely covered technological aspects, providing a full understanding of how machining has adapted to material constraints and moved beyond conventional methods in recent years.

A survey of the leading interior designers and architects who are collectively defining the city’s signature style.As perhaps the most diverse city in the world, Toronto is a veritable patchwork of cultures, styles, languages, and neighbourhoods—each with its own distinct architecture. With heritage rowhouses in Cabbagetown, glass towers overlooking Lake Ontario, narrow Victorian Bay-and-Gables in the Annex, grand Georgians in Rosedale, and wartime bungalows on the edges of the city, there truly is something for everyone. The interiors of these distinct home styles are no less unique, but, when taken together they exemplify the push and pull between heritage and modern sensibilities that has created a true design movement in this city on the lake.In Toronto Interiors, design writer Catherine Macintosh profiles 30 established and emerging local studios that are evolving the living spaces and streetscapes for the next generation of Torontonians. Whether bringing their talents to innovative renovations or new builds, these studios are crafting homes that are beautiful but not precious; homes that are made for how we live now. Within these deeply personal and highly functional spaces are moments of true creative brilliance—the artistic use of light, the seamless interplay between indoors and out, unique focal points, a careful mix of natural materials, and a delicate balance between old and new. The exemplary homes in Toronto Interiors feel at ease in their settings, adding to the city’s unique urban landscape.Toronto Interiors spotlights a moment in time when high design and individuality are expertly applied by designers challenging the status quo, inspiring readers to look at their own spaces through a new lens. Featuring 87 projects brought to life in stunning full-colour photography, Toronto Interiors is a book to both read and dream on.

These useful hacks for the backyard homesteader or gardener have a no-fuss appeal that stand the test of time. They offer practical solutions for the most basic tasks, from composting, tool storage, and fence building to making your own potting bench, firewood brace, soil sifter, or egg incubator.No need to run out to get the most expensive new-fangled yard and garden supplies; with just some basic tools and materials you can make exactly what you need to get by. If you have a few tools like a skill saw and a drill, you can build storage bins, a picnic table, lawn chairs, a rack for firewood, plant supports, cold frames, a compost box, and more. Store your firewood, care for your seedlings, and feed the birds. Create simple ways to organize your tools and grow plants and vegetables. Backyard chicken keeping doesn't need to be fussy either: make a chicken brooder, waterer, feeder, and even a poultry house. These cost-efficient projects provide a wealth of practical ideas for sustainable living, proving that the simplest things are often the most useful.

Plans, step-by-step instructions with photos, and an inspirational image gallery get you on the road to building tiny book-sharing structures for your community or neighborhood in How to Build Your Very Own Little Free Library.