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Home comforts : the art & science of keeping house
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Cheryl Mendelson
This modern guide to housekeeping tells how to simplify domestic chores, and argues that readers can find financial and spiritual empowerment by properly managing their households. This reference guide advises on a wide range of topics, including fabric care, food preservation, allergen removal, and domestic employee management. Illustrations ...
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Complete Guide to Reducing Energy Costs
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Consumer Reports (Creator)
Consumer Reports created this book to offer relief from the rising energy costs that steadily drain your wallet. It's jammed with easy-to-follow advice straight from Consumer Reports experts in the areas of home improvement, appliances and autos. You'll discover that there's nothing difficult or mysterious about saving energy dollars--it's really ...
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New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual
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Reader's Digest
Readers Digest has performed a great service for homeowners with their venerable do-it-yourself manual. Revised and updated in 1996, this classic guide is an easy-to-use, colorfully illustrated, satisfyingly comprehensive, and immensely comforting adjunct to anyone's library. Covering everything from wrenches to respirators, and from how to load a ...
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New Fix-It-Yourself Manual: How to Repair, Clean and Maintain Anything and Everything in andaround Your Home
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Readers Digest
In more than 3,000 instructional photos, illustrations, charts and diagrams, the New Fix-it-Yourself Manual shows you how to troubleshoot faulty appliances, repair them, and put them back together so they work as good as new. It gives you the same essential information on furniture and other household items as well, providing homeowners with ...
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Home Improvement 1-2-3
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Benjamin W Allen, Home Depot
The combined expertise of Home Depot--the nation's #1 home center retailer--and Better Homes and Gardens Books makes this a one-of-a-kind home improvement book. Chapters cover all aspects of home remodeling, decorating and repair, with an emphasis on time-saving, do-it-yourself methods. Features more than 2,000 color illustrations and 75 color ...
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Dare to Repair: A Do-It-Herself Guide to Fixing (Almost) Anything in the Home
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Julie Sussman, Stephanie Glakas-Tenet, Yeorgos Lampathakis (Illustrator)
Designed especially for women, this fix-it guide explains clearly and simply how to tackle simple household repairs, including unclogging drains and coping with a stuck window.
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The Family Handyman: Helpful Hints
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Readers Digest, Unauthored
For do-it-yourself know-how, people turn to Reader's Digest for the tools and techniques to help them through big or small projects. This book presents the fastest, easiest and least expensive ways to get things done around the house, with more than 2,000 tips and techniques, all tested by pros. Over 1,000 color illustrations.
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American Bungalow Style
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Robert Milton Winter, Rev., Alexander Vertikoff (Photographer), Robert W Winter (Adapted by)
In the tradition of The Wright Style, this lush volume captures the charm of that Arts and Crafts-era building type called the bungalow--and provides a wealth of ideas for restoring and decorating these historic American homes. 300+ full-color photos. 14 black & white photos. Line drawings.
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The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: With 350 Projects and 2300 Photos
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Black & Decker (Creator), Creative Publishing International (Creator)
The new edition of a home repair classic. The most up-to-date, complete, and useful guide to home repair a homeowner can have. With more than 350 projects and 2300 photos, virtually every home repair challenge is covered. New in this major revision to an all-time classic best-seller are important chapters on: choosing and using hand and power ...
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Home Owners Journal
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Colleen Jenkins
Here is what you've always needed to keep track of those home improvements, how much paint or wallpaper you used or when you had something cleaned, repaired or serviced. A chapter for every part of your home, inside and out. Over a half million copies sold.
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Home Improvement 1-2-3: Expert Advice from the Home Depot
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Home Depot (Editor), John Holms (Editor)
This new edition includes everything from advice on everyday maintenance to repair to new construction. It introduces new technology and new products. At every turn, the book offers expert advice on issues that confront homeowners every day. Photos & illustrations.
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Yankee Magazine's Make It Last: Over 1,000 Ingenious Ways to Extend the Life of Everything You Own
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Earl Proulx
For wise consumers who want to mend and extend every possible item--from roof shingles to pantyhose--Earl Proulx, the master of maintenance and mending, and the penny-pinching experts at Yankee Magazine show the way. 50 illustrations.
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How to Fix Damn Near Everything
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Franklynn Peterson
Peterson shows how to repair kitchen and garden appliances, plumbing, furniture, and even cameras like a pro. 300+ diagrams and illustrations.
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Home Maintenance for Dummies.
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Morris Carey, James Morris, James Carey
Having a house can be a hassle. But thanks to timesaving, trouble-preventing strategies from these nationally recognized experts, now anyone can keep his or her palace in regal repair and have plenty of time left over for the fox hunts. This friendly book covers everything from plumbing to painting, with handy calendars to ensure nothing falls ...
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Earl Proulx's Yankee Home Hints: From Stains on the Rug to Squirrels in the Attic, Over 1,500 Ingenious Solutions to Everyday Household Problems
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Earl Proulx, Yankee Magazine
great outdoors--from driveways to dry rot, from plant containers to compost. This guide includes methods for renovating a home to increase its value, plus suggestions for sprucing up older homes, ways to decrease your costs of heating and cooling, and more. 200 illustrations. 20 photos.
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Home Workshop
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Time-Life Books
Time Life's most popular how-to guides for the home owner are now completely updated for the '90s with up-to-the minute codes, tools, tips, and techniques. Highly illustrated with step-by-step instructions.
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Fireplaces and Wood Stoves
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Time-Life Books
Time Life's most popular how-to guides for the home owner are now completely updated for the '90s with up-to-the minute codes, tools, tips, and techniques. Highly illustrated with step-by-step instructions.
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Fix It Yourself Manua
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Readers Digest
Repair instructions that start with the tools, what they are and how to use them. More than 4,000 illustrations.
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Windows & Doors
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Time-Life Books (Editor)
'Windows and Door' shows you how to do the job right - and do it your-self - with the latest techniques and materials, step-by-step directions, safety advice, and hundreds of color illustrations.
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The Septic System Owner's Manual
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Lloyd Kahn, Blair Allen, Julie Jones
For the rural homeowner, this illustrated, easy-to-understand manual covers the basics of a septic tank and drain field, potential problems and solutions, greywater systems, composting toilets, and other alternatives. 125 illustrations. Tables.
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Clean House Clean Planet
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Karen Logan
This easy-to-use guide for everyone who is concerned about the toxic chemicals in cleaning products includes remarkably simple recipes for natural, non-toxic household cleaners that really work--the secrets the cleaning industry doesn't want consumers to know.
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Home Improvement for Dummies.
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Gene Hamilton, Anc Editors Housenet (Editor), Inc Editors Housenet (Editor)
This handy guide provides readers with the knowledge they need to tackle routine home repairs--complete with two-color illustrations for guidance. Step-by-step instructions walk readers through such major tasks as plumbing, electrical repair, and carpentry projects. 300 illustrations.
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Reviving Your House: 500 Inexpensive and Simple Solutions to Basic Home Maintenance Issues
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Alan Dan Orme
This very useful book helps the homeowner solve some of the problems involved in maintaining a house, including peeling paint, wet basements,crumbling chimneys, and not enough space.
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Roofs and siding
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Time-Life Books
Roofs And Siding shows you how to do the job right- and do it yourself- with the latest techniques and materials, step-by-step directions, safety advice, and hundreds of color illustrations.
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The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works
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David Owen
Anyone who's ever quailed at the thought of buying a two-by-four or suspected that his (or her) dwelling is breaking down out of spite will be charmed, educated and entertained by this delightful history and how-to of the house.
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