Kategoria BISAC: House & Home >> Do-It-Yourself - General

Today's new-home buyers face unprecedented opportunity and risk. Thanks to recent builder innovations and lower house payments, buyers have the opportunity of a lifetime to build the house of their dreams. Yet given recent history of unprecedented depreciation in home values, consumers venturing into the new-home market take a big chance.

In The New New Home, Boyce Thompson, the editorial director of Builder magazine for 17 years, demystifies the challenges and opportunities facing new homebuyers. In it, he lays out the new green,...

A practical guide with step-by-step instructions and hands-on projects for newcomers to metalwork and MIG welding

The TAB Guide to DIY Welding shows you how to get started with MIG welding and metalworking. Inside, you'll find illustrated step-by-step instructions for making useful objects for around the home, as well as fun artistic projects. This easy-to-follow book takes you through setting up a metalworking studio, finding local resources for materials, and the safe operation of metal studio tools.

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Whether you want a turf roof, solar-powered hot water, or a superinsulated (and cost-efficient) house, you need to know the essential elements of the self-build process, and in "The Green Self-Build Book," Jon Broome gives an overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction techniques. The book includes case studies of green building techniques such as earth and straw bale buildings and is intended for anyone who is planning a self-build project, housing professionals, students, and teachers. "The Green Self-Build Book" gives inspiration and information to...

Introducing a new woodworking series in the tradition of Tage Frid...a series filled with essential information required by woodworkers today. For the first time ever, all the techniques and processes necessary to craft beautiful things from wood have been compiled into three comprehensive volumes: The Complete Illustrated Guides. Highly visual and written by woodworking's finest craftsmen, these three titles -- Furniture & Cabinet Construction, Shaping Wood, and Joinery -- will establish a new standard for shop...

The Family Handyman's 100 Things Every Homeowner Must Know gives you the knowledge you need to be a better homeowner. You'll make informed decisions, avoid frustrations and save thousands over the life of your home. Here's just a small sample of what's inside:

Harness the Healing Power of Easy, Affordable Essential Oils Remedies

Why pay the high cost of prescription medications, beauty products, and home cleaning supplies when you can easily, quickly, and affordably make them at home with essential oils?

DIY Aromatherapy is your ultimate step-by-step guide to create simple yet powerful, aromatherapy blends that restore health, beautify, and cleanse-all while keeping money in your pocket.

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• Discover the 35 -most essential- essential oils for your home
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Not everyone knows that besides whipping up perfect pastries, beautiful breads, soulful sorbets and a limitless smorgasbord of other delectable recipes, the Thermomix is also a master at making skincare products. It's design and function are perfectly suitable for creating creams, lotions, balms and all sorts of other items that would take 10 times the time and effort without this impressive machine.

Just as it does in the culinary sense, the Thermomix negates a whole cupboardful of gadgets that once were required tools of the trade for anyone wanting to make skincare products at...