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Old-House Dictionary From a One Room Cabin to a Beaux-Arts Mansion. Here's a concise and easily understandable architectural dictionary for professionals and amateurs alike.

Offers design advice. This title also explores form and developing profiles.

Practical projects as useful today as when first published nearly 100 years ago.

Features information on residential codes, construction methods, and materials - as well as a design inside and out. This work also provides sections on tools, siding, ventilation, and landscaping, along with information on obtaining a site and permit to finishing touches like installing door locks and cabinets.

The new Festool Domino DF 500 Joining System simplifies the difficult, slow process of joining. Consisting of the Domino joiner and Domino tenons, it uses a revolutionary cutting method, simple indexing features and adjustable mortise sizing to make flaw

Here's a fun and inexpensive way to transform your decor -- furniture slipcovers that can be applied and removed to fit the occasion or the season. A talented seamstress shares her tips and techniques for creating slipcovers for a sofa, the headboard of

An illustrated guide to new approaches to woodturning and carving. Three basic chapters are followed by 12 illustrated projects covering decorative marks, lettering, low-relief and pierced-relief carving, working in the round and shaping. Advice is given on tools and how to sharpen them.

"Going green" isn't just about energy-efficient appliances, and this book is a one-stop resource on the options, showing homeowners how to choose the green systems that match their heating, cooling, lighting, landscaping, and air and water quality needs and budget.

Provides the information you need to take your own home back in time, to discover who built it, how it was used, and even how it looked. This title includes: how to use maps to track the changing landscape of your area; how to identify the style of your home and when it was built; and, detailed information on key resources.

Contains a comprehensive range of mathematical data which is required in the metalworking workshop and by those designing a wide range of engineered items, tools and machines. This book provides in a single concise volume that is otherwise only available by reference to many different sources.

Presents more than 40 puzzles to challenge the woodworker's hands and mind. This title includes projects such as bewitching cubes, caged balls, intricate banks, locked links and perplexing burrs.

This guide was written to assist and educate the general public of the dangers of fire, burglary, assault and fraud in our everyday lives. Emphasizing actual events, the author covers a multitude of areas such as security at the ATM, preventing rape, fire hazards such as combustion, extension cords, and space heaters. He also emphasizes the dangers connected to smoke detectors and electronic burglar alarms and demonstrates how a home or business burglar alarm system may fail. He continues with state of the art advice regarding computer and on-line security against fraud.

The word 'off-grid' refers to places or people without mains water, power or phone line. Off-grid locations can range from private islands to tree-houses. All are outside or in between the criss-crossing lines of power, water and phone that delineate the civilised world. This book is about that physical sense of off-grid.

- Do you find you're always strapped for cash at the end of the month?- Are you worried about paying your credit card bills?- Would you like some practical advice on how to make your money go further?Perfect Money Saving is the essential guide for anyone who wants to take control of their finances.

One of the classic books on the theory of craftsmanship and design.

A follow-up to "Country Wisdom and Know-How", this book provides 373 hints, tips, and activities for living the simpler life all year round, and information on weather, gardening and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more. It is divided into the four seasons of the year and then organized into 373 individual tips.

Carving is an area of woodworking that has appeal and can start as simply as whittling figures with a pocket knife. This book provides an introduction for novice carvers, including an approach to tools and sharpening and a survey of various styles.

Helps you add value, square footage, and usable living space to your home - without the expense and difficulties of room additions. This guide shows you how to get the most for your money and avoid costly mistakes while converting your attic, basement, or garage into useful living space. It also includes time-saving and efficiency-ensuring tips.

Includes a guide to ethical shopping and investing Your introduction to taking simple steps towards sustainable living Packed with practical and realistic advice, Green Living For Dummies is a comprehensive guide to minimising your impact on the world around you.

A guide providing details on keeping pools, spas, and other recreational water in good condition. It covers various things from minor maintenance to major repairs and remodeling as well as related topics such as water chemistry, troubleshooting, environmental concerns, chlorine alternatives, and more.

This is the manual for anyone who wants to become a skilled upholsterer. The book, now made available again in paperback, contains a total of 15 step-by-step projects. The first eight are basic skills projects and collectively these explain the key skills needed to complete any upholstery task.

Dampness can become an enemy when it invades our interior space, when it persists, it spreads and damages our domestic fittings, finishes and furnishings, and it stimulates the spread of fungus and decay in the structure of our houses. This is a guide to the causes and treatment of dampness.

A compilation of projects and plans from "Furniture and Cabinetmaking" magazine, offering practical guidance, approaches and tricks of the trade. It includes 30 varied projects that range from a simple dining table to an ambitious Robert Adams-style breakfront bookcase, and cover various tastes and abilities.

Helps readers to learn how to make bookracks and bookends, rustic picture frames, kitchen utensil containers, a jewellery box and CD cabinet. This book guides readers through the design and making process, giving them the skills they need to become efficient carvers, whilst gaining insight into woodcarving traditions, practice and craftsmanship.

House as a Mirror of Self presents an unprecedented examination of our relationship to where we live, interwoven with compelling personal stories of the search for a place for the soul. Marcus takes us on a reverie of the special places of childhood--the forts we made and secret hiding places we had--to growing up and expressing ourselves in the homes of adulthood. She explores how the self-image is reflected in our homes; power struggles in making a home together with a partner; territory, control, and privacy at home; self-image and location; disruptions in the boding with home; and beyond the "house as ego" to the call of the soul.As our culture is swept up in home improvement to the extent of having an entire TV network devoted to it, this book is essential for understanding why the surroundings that we call home make us feel the way we do. With this information we can embark on home improvement that truly makes room for our soul.