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Creating a New Old House: Yesterday's Character for Today's Home
Through hundreds of inspiring photos and engaging text, the author describes what gives traditional homes their enduring appeal, and illustrates the creative work of builders who are forging the movement toward building new homes that capture old-…
Remodeling can enliven all the spaces in a home, solving flaws, enhancing interior livability, increasing curb appeal, and making best use of the site. An architect shares insight gained through an architectural practice specializing in …
Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home
Extending the original principles from her book "The Not So Big House," award-winning landscape designer Sarah Susanka joins forces with noted landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy to offer innovative designs that promote unifying home and …
With chapters covering kitchens, bathrooms, living spaces, entries, and mudrooms, this book presents hundreds of photographs showing the effects created by all the major types of tile available today when installed in different settings.
This is the definitive guide to building the most popular exterior building project there is: the deck. By walking the reader through the entire process — from the planning stages, through construction step-by-step, to the custom details that …
Home by Design: Transforming Your House Into Home
Susanka presents 30 design concepts that can transform any house into a welcoming home filled with character, beauty, and comfort. Opening readers' eyes to what's possible, she makes spatial design accessible to the layperson.
All the technical information, design advice, and field-tested expertise of "Fine Homebuilding's" best deck builders are packed into "Windows and Doors: Installing, Repairing, Replacing." For professionals who need a broader source of information,…
After kitchen renovations, bathroom makeovers rank second in popularity. This book tells readers everything they need to know to remodel a home bathroom, from planning the renovation and choosing materials and fixtures to putting in the finishing …
HVAC: A Field Guide to Heating and Cooling
Designed for quick, on-site use, this newly updated reference lists the current code requirements for heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems, and is cross-referenced to the current Uniform Mechanical Code and the International …
Kitchen Ideas That Work: Creative Design Solutions for Your Home
The home you've always dreamed of starts here! Kitchen Ideas that Work combines fresh ideas with professional design advice so you can create the kitchen you've always wanted. No other book on the market offers this much useful information and …
Updating Classic America Bungalows: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling, and Building New
Written by two renowned architects, this helpful guide to bungalows includes design ideas for renovating, remodeling, and building new. Full color.
Taking an up-close look at how master plumber Cauldwell works, this guide includes step-by-step installation procedures for fixtures, hardware, and appliances, as well as troubleshooting advice for unexpected situations. Full color.
There are many wonderful and creative ways to decorate custom garments and home accessories, and this book features four of the most popular: stenciling, stamping, painting and embossing. The techniques are spelled out in detail, with step-by-…
From cabinets to countertops to flooring, "Remodeling a Kitchen" offers the most up-to-date information available for making a dream kitchen a reality. New articles from recent issues of "Fine Homebuilding" magazine provide expert guidance.
For Pros by Pros Building Tips
This new reference volume contains 350 of the best tips, techniques, and trade secrets from Fine Homebuilding. It helps builders save time, money, and trouble by improving the ease and accuracy of countless construction and remodeling projects. …
The right kind of stone and how you incorporate it in your landscape and garden can make all the difference. Stone, a broad term that includes pavers, fieldstones, bricks, rocks and boulders, and stone veneer, can be used to create a distinct yet …
Making Room: Finding Space in Unexpected Places
With 101 creative ways to make a house feel bigger without adding on or tearing down walls, this volume contains 40 examples that illustrate how small renovations can yield big results. Full color.
Building Traditional Kitchen Cabinets
First published in 1994, this book quickly established itself as the standard shop reference on building kitchen cabinets. It covers all aspects of building a complete set of cabinets, from choosing a style for doors, to laying out the cabinets, …
Few building materials can match tile for durability, beauty, design — and increasingly, popularity. This book combines an inspiring diversity of design ideas with well-illustrated, pro-level installation and repair techniques. Tiling begins with …
The New Outdoor Kitchen: Cooking Up a Kitchen for the Way You Live and Play
Grills, smokers, and wood-fired ovens are all options when planning an outdoor kitchen. This new guide covers all the choices, as well as giving information on outdoor heaters, social fire pits, bug control, lighting, sound systems, and water …
A Handbook of Paint Effects & Finishes
This expert handbook describes all the different techniques and finishes of paint and presents a fantastic collection of paint effect home projects to follow.
Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home
This sequel to "The Not So Big House" thoughtfully considers 20 new homes and five remodels that span a broad range of styles, climates, and landscape considerations to show how the not-so-big ideal can work in any setting. Photos. Illustrations.
Even if you have a small piece of land behind your home-whether it's in the country or the city-you, too, can create your own outdoor room. An outdoor room can be as simple as a barbeque grill and a table and chairs on a patio or as elaborate as …
For Pros by Pros Remodel Plumb
Remodel Plumbing focuses on the challenges of working in tight spaces like bathrooms and utility rooms, selecting the right fittings, fixtures, and materials and completing expert alterations to a home's existing water supply, drain, and vent …
Furniture You Can Build: Projects That Hone Your Skills
The first volume in this series "Getting Started in Woodworking: Skill Building Projects that Teach the Basics" proved that a book specifically designed to address the needs of beginning woodworkers has broad appeal. The second and third books in …
Build Like a Pro Windows and Doors: Expert Advice from Start to Finish
frequent contributor to Fine Homebuilding magazine, Scott McBride offers this comprehensive guide covering all aspects of an often daunting task. Step-by-step instructions take the homeowner through each process, including prepping and adjusting …
Full-color photos, along with over 150 drawings from Susanka's own sketchbook, illustrate practical home design ideas for everyday living in this compilation of over 30 columns from "Fine Homebuilding" magazine.
Brimming with visual inspiration for every room, this new Taunton Idea Book helps readers solve clutter problems in the home. 240 full-color photos.
From "the other domestic goddess," ("Times) the ultimate book of hints for the home — kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room and home office. Practical and inspirational advice to show how the smallest steps can make the biggest difference.
Bathroom Ideas That Work: Creative Design Solutions for Your Home
From the publisher of the bestselling Idea Books comes a new design sourcebook series that moves beyond inspiration and provides the essential information homeowners need to make smart choices for remodeling. Today's bathroom is more than just …