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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.

Simple Japanese Furniture presents 24 simple and stylish furniture projects for the home based on Japanese designs from the mid-1950s.

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.

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.

From bestselling organization consultant Marie Kondo comes this charming graphic novel, teaching you how to spark joy in your life by tidying your home.

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.

Whether you have beloved family heirloom that needs fixing up or want to renovate bargain furniture, this Ultimate Guide to Furniture Repair & Refinishing can help you get the job done right!

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

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.

Revised and expanded edition of the complete guide to making your own canoe paddles, now with 16 pages of colour photographs.

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.

house distilling involves making alcoholic drinks, usually spirits, in one's own house for one's own enjoyment. Different parts of a liquid with different boiling points can be separated using distillation. The making of distilled drinks such as whiskey, vodka, gin, rum, and other similar spirits is commonly thought of when discussing home distillation.Note that many jurisdictions consider home distillation to be unlawful unless certain licenses and permits are in place. This is because there are legitimate worries about people making alcoholic drinks for sale without paying the proper taxes or following quality control standards.From one region to another and even from one country to another, the legality of home distillation differs. Home alcohol distillation may be perfectly lawful in some regions, while in others it is absolutely forbidden unless you have the appropriate licenses. It is imperative that people familiarize themselves with the local laws and regulations of home distillation before attempting any such endeavors.Because of the combustible ingredients used and the possibility of alcohol vapour igniting, safety is a major consideration when distilling at home. Uncertainty over the end product's quality is another consequence of lacking expertise in and command over the distillation process.In conclusion, distilling alcoholic beverages at home is known as "home distilling," but in order to make a safe and high-quality product, one must be knowledgeable of the distillation process, be cognizant of and adhere to all applicable laws and regulations, and put safety first.

"Delve into the enchanting art of lifelike floral design with The New Art of Paper Flowers. Whether you're a novice looking to discover a gratifying new hobby or a seasoned crafter seeking inspiration, this all-inclusive handbook will equip you to cultivate lush, long-lasting blooms using colorful crepe paper"--

"With practical, step-by-step instructions and on-the-ground examples at every scale, Flower Farming for Profit is a comprehensive, beautiful guide to achieving profitability as a cut flower farmer. When Lennie Larkin set out to become a flower farmer, she found all sorts of resources about growing flowers but a scarcity of reliable information on how to build a profitable cut flower business. How do you create efficient systems and adequately value your own time and effort through your pricing? When and how should you consider scaling up your farm? How can you make doing what you love support you financially? In Flower Farming for Profit, Larkin answers these questions-and many, many more. With instructive lessons and savvy business tips from her own and other successful farms around the world, she explores: -The diverse challenges of both wholesale and retail sales channels, from florists and farm stands to farmers markets -Streamlining weddings for the farmer-florist, from communications to floral design -Efficient recordkeeping and bookkeeping -Steps for conducting your own cost-of-production analysis -Marketing and growth strategies -Business planning, goal setting, and making financial projections -Crop planning based on local climatic conditions, market demand, and sales projections The cut flower industry continues to experience wild growth. To successfully do what they love while expanding the market for sustainably produced flowers, new and experienced farmers alike must deliberately step back from the field and into the office. Flower Farming for Profit is a one-of-a-kind guide to creating the type of numbers-driven business that will allow individual farms to prosper and local flower economies to thrive"--

Just as The Home Edit Life reassuringly told us that it's OK to own things, Stay Organized promises that it's OK to create a mess. When your systems are working, you'll be able to clean them up within 15 minutes. And as we've all learned over the last few years, maintenance is self-care. Our homes are critical to our mental health. When your systems work, you have more bandwidth. You don't have to start from a maxed-out place. Above all else, move forward feeling calm, collected, and confidently organized -with humor, relatability, and beautiful imagery.Stay Organized covers all kinds of topics related to maintenance, showing readers actionable ways to create systems in their own homes that will be easy to maintain for long-term success. Topics include: - How to get your household on board- Sharing spaces effectively- Household schedules- Maintenance as self-care- Inventory checklists- Checking in with your systems- Staying on top of incoming and outgoing items- Low-bar lifestyle goals for each space

You embraced hygge and mastered konmari; now meet Dostadning, or death cleaning: the Scandinavian art of shedding unnecessary things to make our lives as joyful as possible, at any age

"Renting a home can be a complex process--from finding a safe and affordable space, to hiring help for moving in and out, and of course, managing any repairs that come up during your stay. You deserve to feel empowered to take matters into your own hands--and it's not as hard as you might think. In this book, Mercury will show you how to tackle the projects that need improvement in your home--from how to properly fix a clog in your bathroom sink and safely hang things on your walls to patching small and medium drywall holes"--

Harrison Gardner is a man on a mission to help us rediscover the lost art of building our own while leaving a more harmonious mark on the environment. Build Your Own explores the principles of construction and outlines a multitude of practices and methods that enable you to build a home with the materials available to you.