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Chenier's Practical Math Application Guide: For Do-it-yourselfers, Trades People, Students, Etc.
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IdeaWise Garages: Inspiration & Information for Do-It-Yourselfers
Get the most out of your garage.In addition to being a "car closet," the modern garage can also serve as a home workshop, a garden shed, an artist's studio, a sports center, a hobby shop, or enclosed patio. IdeaWise Garages shows you how to transform that depressingly jumbled garage into an enjoyable space you'll want to spend time in. Garage organization products are one of today's fastest growing categories of retail merchandise, matched by a growing trend of architects and space planners who specialize in designing garages and outbuildings. IdeaWise Garages is the ideal companion to growing numbers of consumers who are seeking to transform this important but neglected space. The IdeaWise series offers ingenious ideas and helpful information aimed at readers who are active DIYers. - Includes money-saving tips for DIYers.
- Running sidebars give space-planning tips from professional space designers.
- Includes resource guide listing manufacturers and sources for materials shown throughout the book.
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Price: $11.15
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IdeaWise Basements & Attics: Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer (IdeaWise)
If you desperately need more living space, you don't necessarily need to move up to a bigger house, or construct a new addition Many homes contain unfinished spaces in a basement or attic can be transformed into wonderful finished living spaces for far less than it might cost to build a major addition. IdeaWise Basements & Attics gives dozens of innovative ideas for transforming unfinished spaces into comfortable, secure living areas, as well as ideas for how to use those spaces creatively. Attic and basement space can be used to create additional bedrooms and bathrooms for a growing family, a comfortable recreation room or home theater for an active, mature family-or even a private mini-apartment to meet the needs of a new trend: aging parents moving in with their children, or grown children moving back home with their parents. .
Price: $10.93
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Your Log House: The On-Site Manual for the Do-It-Yourselfer
This is not a manual that can be read as book, put on the shelf and the building started. It is an on-site reference work intended to be open on the job. The book is written in a cumulative style. That is, it is necesssary to start at the beginning and gain knowledge as the book and the building project progresses. For anyone with a dream to build a log house or have one built professionally, it is a must. It serves to instruct, inspire and make the reader knowledgeable about log construction at every level. For the professional builder or proprietor who already knows most of what this book teaches, the book would be useful for apprentices and other newcomers to the craft. It would also serve well to pass on to prospective customers to both inspire them further and to bring them up to speed on the language and concepts of log building..
Price: $31.00
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Idea Wise: Yards & Gardens: Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer (Idea Wise)
Today's yards and gardens can offer expanded living space through the creation of outdoor rooms dedicated to many different living activities: recreation, dining, hobbies, sports, and more. IdeaWise: Yards & Gardens opens with an introduction that presents the basic themes to consider when planning a better landscape. Following chapters discuss each of these themes in greater detail, including: "Style," "Fences & Walls," "Decks & Patios," "Grass & Gardens," "Recreation," "Utility Areas," and "Decoration." Written specifically with the do-it-yourselfer in mind, the book is arranged so each beautiful landscape photo is a miniature case study. Includes all the background information needed to plan a DIY approach to each idea. In addition to these inspirational photos and the practical case-study text, the book is filled with side bars, charts, and DIY design tips that make it truly a useful planning guide. The book also includes a helpful consumer guide sidebars showing the vast range of materials and remodeling options available to the DIYer. .
Price: $1.00
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IdeaWise Porches & Sunrooms: Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer (IdeaWise)
In today's homes, porches and sunrooms offer indoor comfort with all the beauty and charm of nature and the outdoors A porch or sunroom is a place where we can relax and enjoy all the pleasures of being outdoors without the nuisances of extreme temperatures, rain, or pests. And no longer are porches and sunrooms purely seasonal spaces suitable for use only on pleasant, mild evenings in certain seasons. New technology in patio doors, skylights, windows, solarium systems, and heating and cooling systems means that today's sunroom or porch is a four-season space. They are just as energy efficient as any other room in the house, and for this reason it's common today for a porch or sunroom to serve as a home office, as a family room, as a regular dining area, or even as a bedroom. IdeaWise Porches & Sunrooms will show readers how to plan a sunroom or four-season porch that best suits a family's needs, and also how to furnish and decorate that space for maximum enjoyment and usefulness. It also includes dozens of ideas for making this special space truly unique. .
Price: $5.20
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Fix It, Stage It, Sell It--QUICK!: A Do-It-Yourselfer's Guide for Rapid-Turnover of Any Home In Any Market
For the better part of the past decade, homes in many markets moved quickly and often at the asking price, some even starting bidding wars. In that seller’s market, with interest rates low and property values rapidly appreciating, owners needed only to put their home on the market for a buyer to grab it. Most experts agree that those days are now gone. To sell a home quickly in today’s changing real estate climate, with sales and prices slowing in many areas, sellers need new techniques and approaches to get buyers’ attention—as well as their asking price—so that their property does not sit unsold. In Fix It, Stage It, Sell It—QUICK! “America’s #1 Real Estate Expert” Robert Irwin provides the complete information sellers need to ensure any property has a successful, swift sale, stripping it down to the most essential, cost-effective work that should be done. This focused guide explains not only staging, but also fixing up and selling, making this a complete approach to what every home seller needs to move a property fast in any market..
Price: $9.67
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The Official Rent-A-Husband Guide to a Safe, Problem-Free Home: Quick, Easy, and Effective Solutions for Do-It-Yourselfer Improvements and Repairs
Since 1996, Kaile Warren's phenomenally successful handyman business, Rent-A-Husband, has dispatched a fleet of reliable, efficient, and sensitive “surrogate spouses” to take care of all those pressing but largely neglected problems in the home—from leaky plumbing to leaky roofs, buckled floors to peeling walls, faulty sockets to sparking plugs. And now, for every woman who thinks she has a screw loose or her wires crossed (and even some men), The Official Rent-A-Husband Guide to a Safe, Problem-Free Home provides a painless and entertaining approach to quick and easy “fixes” for everything in need of repair or improvement in your home. In chapters laced with amusing anecdotes from real-life Rent-A-Husband experiences, Kaile Warren and coauthor Jane Craig give readers the know-how and confidence to: * Choose the right tool for every project and start a toolbox of their own. * Make everyday repairs to plumbing, electricity, walls and floors. * Create and build storage space. * Defuse potential household dangers. * Simplify domestic chores. * Distinguish between jobs they can handle and those best left to the pros. * Hire a reputable contractor and check up on the job he is doing. Kaile Warren's pragmatic solutions will not only fix problems with the greatest of ease, but will save readers thousands of dollars as well. His book is divided into three parts: problem-solving, space maximizing, and home safety. With this book you can learn to maintain your most important asset—your home. .
Price: $17.50
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Idea Wise: Decks & Patios: Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer (Idea Wise)
Exciting new ideas for outdoor living.IdeaWise Decks & Patios is an essential information and inspiration source for creating "outdoor rooms" that can be used for dining, entertaining, relaxing and recreation For today's family, outdoor living is a fundamental part of life, and much of this activity is focused around decks and patios, where children play, where families cook and eat, where adults socialize and relax. IdeaWise Decks & Patios gives hundreds of useful tips for designing, creating and furnishing great decks and patios to fit any need. Outdoor decor is one the fastest growing trends in home decorating, and this book includes lots of tips for furnishing and decorating a deck or patio so it looks and functions at its very best. The IdeaWise series offers ingenious ideas and helpful information aimed at readers who are active DIYers. - Includes information on the newest materials, such as synthetic decking materials and geometric tumbled-stone pavers.
- Features money-saving tips for DIYers.
- Running sidebars give space-planning tips from professional designers.
- Includes resource guide listing manufacturers and sources for materials shown throughout the book.
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Price: $5.97
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Fireplaces: Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer (IdeaWise)
IdeaWise: Fireplaces will ignite readers with inspiration for using decorative fire features in home and yard decor. Any home becomes a little warmer, a little cheerier when it has a fireplace, an outdoor fire pit, or some other fire feature, and this book is a one-stop source of ideas for transforming living spaces with fire. It features the very latest in flame technology, firebox construction, and building materials; all the innovations that have made fireplace and other fire features more popular in today's homes than ever before. The book's contents include chapters on traditional wood-burning masonry fireplaces including wood and pellet fireplaces, prefabricated fireplaces, gas fireplaces and stoves, fireplace inserts, hearths & mantles, outdoor fireplaces, fire pits and patio fire features, and accessories. For homeowners planning a new fireplace or looking for ways to make an existing fireplace more functional and fun, IdeaWise: Fireplaces is a must-have book. .
Price: $10.27
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