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The essential guide to retrofitting old houses to be energy efficient and sustainable. Now revised and updated throughout.

Camille Soulayrol, co-editor-in-chief of Marie Claire Id¿, is an author, stylist, and visual designer.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A popular minimalist blogger and author of The More of Less shows you how to methodically turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living.One of today's most influential minimalist advocates takes us on a decluttering tour of our own houses and apartments, showing us how to decide what to get rid of and what to keep. He both offers practical guidelines for simplifying our lifestyle at home and addresses underlying issues that contribute to over-accumulation in the first place. The purpose is not just to create a more inviting living space. It's also to turn our life's HQ-our home-into a launching pad for a more fulfilling and productive life in the world.

Declutter every aspect of your life - from your wardrobe to your phone

The ins and outs of the construction process are laid out to enable any moderately handy person to build their own tiny home.

Build a better backyard!Over 100 outbuilding projects and plans for barns, sheds, and garagesStep-by-step instructions for every aspect of the construction process with coordinating full-color photographyAn overview on planning, tools, materials, and safety tipsDetailed chapters on foundations, framing, siding, roofing, wiring, plumbing, and finishing touchesBlueprint plan packages are easily ordered, including PDF and CAD filesEnhance your property with a new beautiful outbuilding! Adding a backyard storage shed, a new detached garage, an attractive playhouse, or any other type of utility building not only improves the functionality of your home, it also adds value to your property.Whether you want to build one yourself, order a project plan, or you just want to know the basics before you hire the work out to someone else, this updated guide will help! This book contains step-by-step instructions for constructing and designing more than 100 barns, sheds, and other types of outbuildings in a variety of shapes and sizes.Providing an overview on safety, planning, tools, and materials, you'll also learn everything you need to know about foundations, framing, roofing, wiring, and more. Then, choose between designing and building a shed or barn from scratch, buying a kit, or ordering a plan package within these pages. Inside, you can select from dozens of ready-to-build plan packages and order readily available construction blueprints, CAD files, cost estimates, and materials lists.Written with the do-it-yourselfer in mind, Ultimate Guide: Barns, Sheds, and Outbuildings will help you prepare, plan, design, and decide which outbuilding option is best for you!

Shed Manual is an insightful book written by the talented author, John Coupe. Published in 2019 by the renowned Haynes Publishing Group, this book has quickly become a must-read in its genre. Shed Manual provides a comprehensive guide on various aspects of sheds, making it an invaluable resource for enthusiasts and professionals alike. John Coupe's expertise and passion shine through every page, making it not only informative but also engaging. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a novice in the field, this book is sure to provide you with new insights and knowledge. Don't miss out on this gem from the Haynes Publishing Group.

A comprehensive reference that has been called "a work of clarity and imagination so influential it virtually defines its subject," this book describes, illustrates, and classifies all types of wooden planes from the common to the rare and unusual -- tracing their development and explaining their use. Included are both American and English planes, and also French, Dutch, German, Japanese and Chinese. Over 500 pages long, with more than 1,000 illustrations, it also includes: Chapters that describe and illustrate over 90 simple and 300 complex molding profiles; a description and explanation of the planes used by specific trades: the Cooper, Sashmaker, Coachmaker, Wheelwright, Planemaker, Organ Builder, Staircase Builder, Basketmaker, Rulemaker, Chairmaker, and Patternmaker; an Appendix that outlines a system for naming and classifying molding profiles, and another for identifying and classifying any plane based on its physical shape.

Minimalism meets DIY in an accessible guide to household waste reduction.

This book is a celebration of reclaimed wood and the beautiful range of possibilities that exists for its creative use.

Fine Woodworking's expert woodworkers cover all the hand tool essentials: choosing the right tool; how to sharpen, use and tool care; tips, techniques and expert advice.

Everything you need to start woodworking with hand tools! Hand tool woodworking can be a source of great pride, satisfaction and amazing results--not to mention less noise and sawdust.

You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff---you can get rid of clutter for good!

For more than 15 years, Jacob has been writing about Stanley Tools for the quarterly journal of The Early American Industries Association, Inc. He now adapts his original research and type studies to book format.

It is an oasis for creation, available to anyone with a little space and the compunction to get their hands dirty."In Natural Selection, Dan Pearson draws on ten years of his Observer columns to explore the rhythms and pleasures of a year in the garden.

Sunken Gardens is packed with everything someone new to the hobby needs to know; it details the equipment needed to get started; surveys the best plants for aquascaping; and shows how to design, plant, and maintain an aquascape.

Grab a roll of duct tape and get started on some unforgettable mega projects with Duct Tape Engineer: The Book of Big, Bigger, and Epic Duct Tape Projects.

Everything you need to use your handplanes!No woodworking tool is more satisfying, quick and precise to use than a handplane. Planes can process timber in its rough state, bring boards up to a glimmering smoothness, cut rabbets, dados, grooves and other joints, and trim wood with a precision that has yet to be matched by power tools.

Tiny Houses Built with Recycled Materials is full of ideas for using reclaimed materials and upcycled goods to construct a tiny house that is good for the earth and truly unique.

This book describes 50 of the world's most important woods for turning and goes into great detail with regard to physical characteristics, working qualities and availability. Colour photographs throughout illustrate different qualities of grain and figure. An additional 100 woods are considered more briefly.

People appreciate that living smaller is easier on their bank balance, their time and the environment. Magazines and newspapers are featuring these smaller wonders more frequently. Now is the time to re-present fundamental small-house design strategies - complete with whole-house case studies for homeowners eager to simplify smartly.