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Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Homeowner Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
303 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ultimate Guide: Plumbing is an updated and expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's comprehensive, best-selling plumbing how-to book. The most up-to-date products and techniques are covered. For the how-to information, strong emphasis is placed on doing things correctly, so all the projects use only code-compliant techniques. Author Merle Henkenius prepares the do-it-yourselfer to handle any plumbing task in the home, from replacing a washer in a...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
191 p. : col. ill., plans ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the typical American homeowner, Great Houses on a Budget presents case studies from across the country that achieve high style at an affordable cost. Most homeowners can only fantasize about owning and living in beautiful dream homes designed by top architects -- houses that are well beyond the reach of average consumers. This splendidly illustrated volume promises to provide a reality check by presenting beautifully designed houses by the same...
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Homeowner Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
303 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ultimate Guide: Wiring demystifies residential electrical systems through easy-to-understand language and the use of step-by-step photography and detailed illustrations. Homeowners will learn how their home's electrical system works and complete installations and repairs themselves. This project-based book shows how to select the right cable, wires, and other equipment and how to run wiring through walls and between floors. Projects guide the reader...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Author
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The day is ending and everyone in the neighborhood is taking a goodnight walk. But where is baby bird's home? And where is baby deer's home? Little ones can lift the sturdy, easy-to-lift flaps on each page to look for each baby's perfect home.
Author
Publisher
New Society
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 335 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The coming energy crisis caused by a peak in global oil and natural gas production will profoundly affect the lives of all North Americans. As the price of these vital fuels rises, homeowners will scramble to cut their fuel bills. Two options for meeting the upcoming challenge are dramatic improvements in home energy efficiency and efforts to tap into clean, affordable, renewable energy resources to heat and cool homes, to provide hot water and electricity,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this wacky true tale of American ingenuity, Annie Miller took to raising pigs in the yard after losing all but her mansion, but when the town wanted the pigs out, she removed the whole mansion instead--rolling it away slowly on logs."--
Publisher
Home Depot Books/Meredith Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
192 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Complete step-by-step guide that provides homeowners with everything they need to know to install a wide variety of floors and get beautiful, room-changing results ; Step-by-step photography along with easy-to-understand and logically organized instructions that will give readers the confidence to install tile, wood, laminate floors as well as the sub-floor needed below ; Updates all aspects of flooring covered in the original edition and offers up-to-date...
Publisher
Hanley Wood
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
384 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Building smart, attractive, enjoyable homes is not limited to big budgets. This handpicked collection provides 350 plans from award-winning architects and home designers and informative editorial features.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. "Wait for us," the note read. "Sleep darkly." Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even keeping them company--while the girls have waited and...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
55) Farmhouse
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A farmhouse where twelve children grow up holds evidence of their stories long after they are gone"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
431 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive -- and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings....
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Purple Little Bird leaves his almost-perfect purple home in search of a better place, but although Brown Bear, Yellow Camel, and others live in very nice places, none is quite right for him.
Publisher
Hanley Wood
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
381 p. : col. ill., plans ; 23 x 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The increasing trend of shrinking lot lines does not have to limit the style or size of a home. Find a broad selection of home plans, each with footprints under 50 feet wideperfect for homes built on narrow lots.
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