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If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you’ll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
Publisher
Meridith
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
416 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Resource for remodeling kitchens or baths. Design guidance, tips, and expert advice on how to buy materials, appliances, and fixtures. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations with designs for all sizes, styles, and budgets.
Author
Publisher
Meredith Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Here in one book are instructions for building the two most popular types of outdoor structures. Start-to-finish sheds & gazebos includes complete, illustrated instructions for building four styles of garden sheds and three variations on an eight-sided gazebo -- plus a cupola for the roof. The book also shows ways for you to personalize your shed or gazebo to complement your homes and landscape. Sheds and gazebos provide more than storage and sitting...
Author
Publisher
Sunset Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
144 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before you start shopping for cabinets, before you buy one can of paint, be sure to page through our all-new Ideas for Great Kitchens. The third edition of this perennial best seller, itś filled with hundreds of photos of todayś most innovative and practical kitchens. It also lays out the fundamental process of remodeling a kitchen, from basic layout to finishing touches. Shopperś Guides help with decisions on appliances and materials, and special...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This practical guide is filled with rich photos of homes, greenhouses, studios, sheds, open-air structures and more, each pulsating with unique yet subtle creativity. Both a pragmatic construction manual and a philosophical, artistic guidebook, Small Strawbale is an inspirational starting point for a strawbale dreamer, and a great source of information for those who are ready to get bailing.
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Publisher
Sterling Publishing
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Make a Bluebird Cathedral, a Frank Lloyd Wright Wren House, an 1840s Tobacco Barn, a Victorian Flicker House -- and more. Plus, use birdhouse designs as other items around the house, including a CD cabinet based on an Egyptian-themed birdhouse; a gilded grape-and-pear-motif birdhouse that's really a floor lamp; or a beautiful ex-birdhouse Distressed Double-Decker Clock. Try several versions of a simple wren house, each contributed by a top designer...
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
156 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Install flashing that will prevent water damage ; build both open and screened porches ; choose between solid wood and synthetic decking ; install exterior trim that resists weather damage ; design and build curved decks and porches ; extend the life of a deck with proper maintenance ; design and build railing for decks and porches.
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Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Over 30 fabulous birdhouses and feeders: a log cabin, a country cottage, a '50s diner, a San Francisco row house, and many others. Full-color photos, detailed patterns, grids, and instructions, plus charts on hole size, perch height, and feeding -- and tips on attracting and protecting preferred species. "Some of these projects look so good, you hardly want to put them outside. None of them are difficult to build.
Publisher
Popular Woodworking Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains illustrated, step-by-step instructions for building fifty different houses and feeders for birds, butterflies, and bats in as little as a few hours, each with measurements, and includes lists of resources and suppliers, as well as tips on attracting birds, bats, and butterflies to the yard.
18) The fence bible
Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
ix, 261 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beneke suggests the appropriate types of fence to keep the swimming pool secure, con fine the livestock, keep deer away from the garden, or create outdoor living spaces. He then discusses the essentials of proper fence design and provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for planning, building, maintaining, and repairing any style of fence. Beneke covers every kind of fencing: wood, masonry, and metal, as well as shrubs, hedges, and trees.
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Publisher
Better Homes and Gardens Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
223 p. : ill ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gazebos, pergolas, trellises, arbors, and more! This book offers a multitude of ideas for overhead outdoor structures in a wide variety of settings and regional contexts, from small to large scale and from attached to unattached. Cutaways, exploded diagrams, charts, and graphs help readers decide whether to undertake a project themselves or hire someone to do it for them. Chapters on prefabricated structures and available kits as well as extensive...
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