Book Description
Two home designers explain how to transform dozens of common castoffs--including a broken birdbath and a battered couch--into stylish objects for the home, offering advice on how to find great objects for one's home.
Author : Kathleen Hackett
Publisher : Artisan Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781579652883
Two home designers explain how to transform dozens of common castoffs--including a broken birdbath and a battered couch--into stylish objects for the home, offering advice on how to find great objects for one's home.
Author : Kate Shoup
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0470289252
Want to know what goodies you can make with your garbage? This book shows you how to give everyday household items a new life the hip craftster’s way. You’ll discover how to complete more than 30 creative projects using materials you already have at your disposal, while reducing trash and upcycling your personal style. From a credit card bracelet to a map photo frame, this fun guide shows you how to create truly one-of-a-kind pieces—one earth-friendly project at a time.
Author : Paul Edwards
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1418577456
A comprehensive guide to safeguard your livelihood, income, and standard of living through the ups and downs of any economy. Most Americans, no matter what their economic circumstances, identify themselves as middle class. A recent Gallup poll showed that 63% consider themselves upper-middle or middle class. And they are feeling burned out and squeezed, under pressure to bring home more and more money just to maintain their standard of living. Middle Class Lifeboat is an answer to that pressure, a comprehensive guide to living a more stress-free lifestyle. Part I: Safeguarding Your Livelihood: profiles the 53 best jobs to have to be self- sufficient whether the economy is up or down. Part II: Safeguarding Your Income: 6 ways to extend your earnings, that don't always involve money. Part III : Safeguarding Your Standard of Living: 10 off-the-grid lifestyle choices to increase your quality of life
Author : Pia Catton
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761156097
Encourages thrift behaviors including planting a garden, cooking at home, cutting one's own hair, exercising with a gym membership, and avoiding or repaying credit card debt.
Author : Stephen Antonson
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1609614283
50 stylish projects from the aisles of the home improvement center In Home from the Hardware Store, artist and designer Stephen Antonson and his wife, Kathleen Hackett ply the aisles of the home improvement center and emerge with a host of ideas for clever, original decorative objects any interior designer would love. Antonson and Hackett cast their eyes on pedestrian materials—drain covers, cork matting, plumbing parts, light sockets, brass nails—and see lamps, wallpaper, table runners, side tables, even cuff links. Organized by decorating challenge, chapters include ideas for lighting, windows and walls, furniture, tabletop, and storage. Beautiful full-color photos, including how-to pictures along with clear, concise, yet friendly instructions, accompany every project. Sidebars and quick tips are scattered throughout, providing DIYers with gentle reminders and instructions for basic tool and equipment use. Design lovers, crafters, and penny pinchers alike will find much to inspire in Home from the Hardware Store.
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Publisher :
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
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Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466804270
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : Miss Cassette
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2020-11
Category : History
ISBN : 149622471X
My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history. Rather than covering the city’s best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don’t exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert’s Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property’s singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city’s offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.
Author : Wes Jackson
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1619026880
In six compelling essays, Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in nature's principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains both. His writing is anchored in his work with The Land Institute, lending authenticity to topics that—in the hands of other writers—too often fail to escape the realm of the conceptual.
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0671792253
This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.