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Making beautiful furniture can be immensely gratifying. By adopting the hybrid woodworking system you can get to that satisfying end result with less effort while enjoying every step along the way.

Offers instructions for everything from plant supports and a clothesline to a potting bench, a chicken coop, a hoop greenhouse, a cold frame, a beehive, a root cellar with storage bins, and an outdoor shower. In this title, most of the projects are suitable for complete novices, and all use just basic tools and standard building materials.

Provides all the advice you need to remodel a kitchen of any size or shape, on any budget. In this title, articles cover how much a kitchen remodel will cost, the key ingredients for a great kitchen remodel and how to remodel a kitchen on any budget. It also includes information on choosing and installing cabinets, countertops, and flooring.

The processes and techniques of turning spirals. Richly illustrated and explained in simple terms, for the novice as well as the expert, here is necessary information to fashion gallery-quality, spiral-turned pieces. Innovative applications of stains and shapes are demonstrated on plates, platters, and bowls. Multiple tips on turning delicate spirals and hand-threaded chasing are included.

Why should you care for leather? What has leather conditioner to do with environmental protection? How do I get my shoes to shine? What saddle soap is best suited and most available for saddles? Anyone who wants the answers to these questions and wishes to learn more about the history, application, and benefits of leather care will want this standard and very successful work. In many of the over 500 beautiful images, custom shoemakers show how to expertly maintain leather shoes, furniture, bags, automotive leather, coarse and fine leather, watch bands, saddles, horse tack, suede, and more. By following their leather care techniques, readers will win a small victory over the usual transience of our favorite leather objects. Also included are histories of influential international leather care product companies, providing readers with a sense of the scope of products available today. A wealth of leather information is covered, including leather types defined by dyeing and consistency, products from wax pastes, creams, and emulsions to oils, soaps, sprays, and grease, polish formulas, and much more. Readers may even decide that maintaining the rich glossy surfaces of their leather products creates a more sophisticated personal appearance.

Over 380 all-new, full color photographs feature hundreds of kitchen collectibles from the 1920s-1950s. Each item is identified with manufacturer's information, dating, values, accurate measurements and more, along with vintage advertisements and catalogue pages. When you want to know, "What is it and what is it worth?" this book is indispensable!

Find peace, repair your past, and live a more fulfilled life with this uplifting guide to the spiritual practice of decluttering.

Remarkable and comprehensive, this essential guide provides advice and step-by-step instructions on achieving an environmentally friendly home. Fully revised and updated, and covering the latest revolutions that have occurred in sustainable housing, this manual includes an honest assessment of the technologies and materials suggested.

In this friendly, comprehensive guide, chartered forester and woodfuel expert Will Rolls talks the reader through the theory and practice of getting the best results from their stove.

Shows how to make the most of less space, with a focus on maximizing storage space, planning for multi-use areas, and using every element of the house to its fullest (including decks, porches, bathrooms, attics, and basements). This book includes both one- and two-floor designs and plans with one to three bedrooms.

Woodturned Christmas ornaments are a delight to make and are beautiful pieces to hang on a Christmas tree or anywhere throughout your home during the holiday season. In this book, the author presents some of his favourite Christmas ornament designs. Each project is accompanied by detailed step-by-step instructions and photos.

A carefully detailed guide to fine eighteenth century American furniture.

This book examines the pros and cons of the local production of carpentry hand-tools as opposed to their importation. In seeking the best strategy to adopt it also outlines the previous methods adopted by VSO and Intermediate Technologywho have much experience in this area. Published in the VSO ECOE Programme series.

This guide for carpentry instructors includes detailed plans for practical demonstrations, and important theoretical aspects of the craft. The tools include planes, clamps, workbench and vice. There is also a section on basic blacksmithing techniques.

From waterproofing basements to checking home heating and cooling systems for leaks and contaminants, Jeff May's Healthy Home Tips helps renters and homeowners alike make sure that their homes are clean and healthy places to live.

Never has such a complete and accurate guide to running a traditional Jewish household been so accessible and sympathetic to the uninitiated. Blu Greenberg at once guides nontraditional Jews who are looking to become more observant and allows traditional Jews to fine-tune the details of their own observant home lives.

In this unique and groundbreaking book, business consultant and New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni turns his sights on the most important organization in our lives-the family.

Expert instruction for historically minded homeowners on how to expand or renovate their most valuable asset.

How to master decorative wood techniques including carving, pyrography, marquetry and fretwork, as well as basic automata and construction. Projects, step-by-step instructions and 300 photographs make the techniques accessible to beginners, as well as inc

This fascinating compilation of accumulated wisdom includes traditional sayings and superstitions to explain whether, and why, they still work today. With advice on the practical necessities of cooking, gardening, housekeeping and health, as well as proverbial wisdom concerning good behaviour for children, adults and life in general.

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For those looking to raise a family in a storybook American town, or a change of pace from hectic city life, this book is the answer.

Contains 350 photos make for easy instructions for creating elegant curves and furniture parts, mortises, slots and holes, fixtures and more. This title gathers the information on routers and router tables, bits and jigs, tips and techniques for router joinery, and much more.

Explores an essential ingredient and how to use it for health and the household as well as in cooking; a brief history of salt and its importance in customs and rituals, before presenting hundreds of fascinating natural applications in the home.

An incredibly versatile substance, bicarbonate of soda - also known as baking soda - has an enormous variety of practical uses; this book explores its applications as a cheap, natural cleaning product around the home, for medicinal purposes and in the kitchen with recipes from perfect muffins to fizzing lemonades.

This revised second edition includes additional repair techniques as well as an appendix describing modifications, such as using a plywood sole plate on the plough plane or attaching a knob to the jack plane, and new designs, including a combination gauge, which have been devised in Zimbabwe and approved by the original author.

This handbook describes a range of hand tools and simple muscle-powered machinery appropriate to developing countries where abundant labour can offset the problems of limited funds or unreliable sources of energy for mechanization.

The perfect getting-started guide for hobbyists and artists who want to learn to work with metal.

On a farmlike compound near New Hope, Pennsylvania, George Nakashima, his family, and fellow wood-workers create exquisite furniture from richly grained, rare timber. Tables, desks, chairs, and cabinets from this simple workshop grace the homes and mansions and executive boardrooms of people who prize such excellence. In this lavishly illustrated volume, George Nakashima allows us in intimate look at his artistry, his philosophy, his life. It is the portrait of an artisan who strives to find the ideal use for each plank in order to create an object of utility to'