Kategoria BISAC: House & Home >> Design & Construction

Building upon the success of earlier versions, which sold more than 250,000 copies, Building Sheds by Joseph Truini provides all the expert advice needed to construct a shed from start to finish.

With broad appeal, Building Sheds, which includes nearly 500 photos and illustrations, offers a range of options to help do-it-yourselfers complete one of the most popular outdoor building projects. The book features instructions and plans for five different styles of sheds:

• timber-frame...

Our pocket reference books provide a wealth of practical information at your fingertips, whenever you need it. Rich in background detail, at-a-glance tables and diagrams, equations, and more, the Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference is a handy resource for architects, engineers and students. Coverage includes:

- Definitions

- Load determinants and Responses - including worldwide biomes and climates, building metabolism and response, thermal sources and sinks, passive building responses to sources and sinks, tuning the building to the environment, optimizing...

The SketchUp to LayOut book is the essential guide for woodworkers, carpenters, architects, contractors, builders, and designers who already know the basics on how to use SketchUp, but are looking to create stunning presentations to visualize their ideas with their clients using LayOut.

Learn the workflow for creating SketchUp models specifically for LayOut

Before you even begin modeling that first rectangle, you'll need to fully understand which type of model you should be building for LayOut. Don't make the mistake of creating twice the amount of work for yourself because...

Create your dream bathroom. Here's your guide: Bathroom Upgrades, from the editors of Fine Homebuilding, provides all the advice you need to remodel a bathroom of any size or shape, on any budget.

This completely new edition takes you through every step of the process. It covers how to:

• Choose the best materials for your bathroom
• Design for optimal storage
• Create a room that gets the best daylight
• Tile a tub surround
• Build a floating...

Design in SketchUp
Document in LayOut

Learn how to use SketchUp and LayOut to design and document any architectural project from concept to completion.
This step-by-step workflow shows you how to create a 3D terrain model of your existing site, then walks you through modeling the building and producing documents throughout each design phase.

• Use the Sandbox tools to create and modify 3D terrain to build an existing site model and a proposed site model.
• Organize your model into multiple files to increase speed, performance,...

This completely new edition from the editors of Fine Homebuilding will provide all the advice you need to remodel a kitchen of any size or shape, on any budget. Our pros will take you through every step of the process with practical, up-to-date information on choosing and installing kitchen cabinets, countertops, flooring, lighting, and appliances. With the site-tested tips and techniques that Fine Homebuilding is known for, Kitchen Upgrades will help you get the kitchen you've always dreamed of.

From the publishers of a popular series of building books comes Small Homes, which is highly relevant for these times -- getting smaller, rather than larger. Some 75 builders share their knowledge of building and design, with artistic, practical, and/or economical homes in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Spain, New Zealand, and Lithuania.

• The average American home is 2,500 sq. ft.
• The tiny home averages 200-300 sq. ft.
• The small homes here are 400-1200 sq. ft. -- the middle ground -- not too big, not too small (a...

Dale Mulfinger is widely acknowledged as the foremost expert on cabins in North America. His first book, The Cabin: Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway, has sold almost 200,000 copies and has consistently been the leading book in the category since it was published in 2001. In this new collection of 37 cabins, Mulfinger rekindles his love for this treasured American icon with fresh insight and seasoned strategies for the logic, utility, and beauty of cabin design.

While Dale's earlier books have focused on smaller cabins...

Not Just Another How-To Book

After many requests from readers of Lisa's popular home improvement columns, House Keys consolidates years of short, insightful articles into one handy resource. Anyone who owns a home, or plans to, will appreciate this easy to understand and humorous guide to home inspection and home building, buying, and selling. House Keys covers everything from getting the best contract terms on a custom home to making your water heater last 30% longer. You'll learn how to:

• Choose the best contractor
  
• Use a...

A basement can be one of the most challenging spaces in a home to remodel, but the rewards are potentially enormous. In this latest volume in Taunton's bestselling Complete series, author Steve Cory explains how to transform a dank, depressing basement into a bright, open and usable living space.

Like other books in the series, Basements Complete is largely a how-to book, but with some coverage of design and planning issues. The book covers the most popular remodeling approaches and projects for basements. Some of the...