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Repairing Any Briggs & Stratton Engine, New or Old! /p> Turn
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The Sunday Times Bestseller A fully illustrated, practical guide
full of essential skills and knowledge that school didn't prepare
us for 'We all learned how to take tests at school, but then we
went out into the world and found ourselves underprepared! And the
worst thing anyone can feel is helpless. So I've filled this book
with over 100 of the most vital life skills and tools that will not
only save you money and give you confidence, but may even save a
life.' - Myleene x This book will empower you, and your family,
with essential knowledge to tackle everyday challenges. Packed full
of advice, They Don't Teach This At School is full of information
and tips on: * Escaping from a burning building * Dealing with
medical emergencies * Getting a good night's sleep * How to be a
good listener * Talking about racism * How to write a CV and apply
for a job * Saying hello (and more) in different languages * Coping
with a plumbing crisis * How to change a plug and a fuse * Checking
the pressure on car tyres * Stopping your mouth burning when you've
eaten something spicy * What to do if you're lost * How to feel
confident about speaking in public
A one-of-a-kind guide to organizing your fridge-including practical
tips for meal prep and storage, plus more than 100 recipes-that
makes it easier to eat better, save money, and get the most out of
your food Practicing "fridge love" is a roadmap to eating
healthier, saving money, and reducing food waste while enjoying a
beautiful and harder-working fridge. This book-part organizational
guide and part food-prep handbook-is your guide. Author Kristen
Hong adopted a nutrient-dense, plant-based diet in an effort to
lose weight and improve her health. But amidst the demands of
day-to-day life and a busy family, she found it impossible to stick
to. The solution? A smarter, better-organized fridge that served
her real-life needs. In this invaluable resource, you will discover
how a beautifully organized fridge can make your life-including
healthy eating for the whole family-easier. It covers general
fridge organization (for all models and configurations) as well as
shopping tips, storage guidelines, the best meal-prep containers,
and more than 100 easy plant-based recipes made for meal prepping.
Style: The Art of Creating a Beautiful Home is a timeless interiors
book that shows you how to transform your living spaces using what
you own and love. While designing can be a big investment, styling
allows you to elevate your spaces with what you've already got.
This book is at once beautiful and practical, demystifying the
creative process of styling so that you can create a beautiful home
with confidence. Based on more than a decade of industry experience
and teaching, this book will show you how to connect with your own
personal style and enjoy inspiring, welcoming and authentic
interiors. Styling is both an art and a science - and you can learn
both. The inviting chapters explore identifying your style; design
principles; transforming spaces; visual storytelling; and nurturing
your craft. As well, author and renowned interior stylist Natalie
Walton steps through significant rooms in the house to provide
expert insider insights on how you can create magical styling
moments in your home. The book is beautifully shot by photographer
Chris Warnes, who has collaborated with Natalie on her previous
books, This is Home: The Art of Simple Living and Still: The Slow
Home.
For more than 40 years, Martin Waller and his company Andrew Martin
have continued to demonstrate that furniture is more than just a
functional object, and that a living space always finds new stories
to tell. His Interior Design Review, the definitive standard work,
unmatched in its variety and broad range of topics, is now being
published in its 26th edition. One hundred designers, 500+ pages,
1,000 photographs - such is the opulent presentation of the latest
interior trends in this magnificent coffee table book. With its
special arrangement, the latest edition is once again a feast for
the eyes of design lovers who want to unleash their creativity.
Discover the path to financial freedom with this step-by-step guide
to house hacking--the simple real estate investment strategy that
lets you live for free and earn income. For most people, rent or a
mortgage takes up the largest chunk of their income. But with house
hacking, that piece can come down to virtually zero--and it's
easier than you'd think! In its simplest form, house hacking is the
real estate investment strategy where you buy a multifamily house
and rent it out to cover your costs and live for free. But this can
come in all shapes and sizes, whether it be inviting in roommates,
owning multiple properties, live-in flips, vacation rentals, or
even participating in Airbnb. In The Everything Guide to House
Hacking, you will learn: -The pros and cons of house hacking -The
minimum you need to get started -What a smart investment looks like
-Whether renovating is worth it -How to be a responsible landlord
-How to find responsible tenants -And more! Discover everything you
want to know about homeownership and how you can build wealth from
your investment properties. The path to financial freedom starts
here.
Crafting from pregnancy to your baby's first birthday! The arrival
of a new baby is not only a cause for celebration, but also the
perfect opportunity to get creative. After all, what could be
better to give to that special little person in your life than a
handmade gift? Whether you are making a gift for your own baby, or
for a friend or relative's new arrival, this book features a wide
range of craft projects to suit all skill levels and covers
numerous craft types, including stenciling, sewing, knitting, and
crochet. There are projects for all the early stages of welcoming a
baby, from pregnancy through to the first birthday, each one
created exclusively for the book by a specially selected group of
crafters from around the world. Beautiful watercolor illustrations
accompany the projects ensuring each one is easily achievable and
suitable for crafters of all levels.
Have you ever thought of earning passive income through property?
Or building a property portfolio to create wealth? It always sounds
hard, intimidating and complex to say the least! You think that
this is for the chosen few and you cannot do it on your own. Here
is a book that will change all that! In this revolutionary,
practical and easy-to-read book, Dr Chomba Chuma guides you through
manageable steps on investing in property and building a portfolio.
The idea behind the book is to build up passive income using a
sustainable wealth to be left for future generations, thereby
allowing the reader to leave a legacy that outlives them and
benefits not only their children and grandchildren, but their
future generations. The outline is based on six steps that the
reader can follow to build their property portfolio. Step 1 – The
property investment strategy, Step 2 – Entity of ownership, Step 3
– Property presentation, Step 4 – Property/mortgage finance, Step 5
– Property registration, Step 6 – Rental management of the
property. This guide is incredibly insightful and makes property
investment seem so much more approachable, even for the novice.
The classic bestselling resource for every American home. Choosing
fabrics, cleaning china, keeping the piano in tune, making a good
fire, folding a fitted sheet, setting the dining room table,
keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, watering plants, removing
stains -- "Home Comforts" addresses the meanings as well as the
methods of hands -- on housekeeping to help you manage everyday
chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and
enhance the experience of life at home.
Further topics include: Making up a bed with hospital corners,
Expert recommendations for safe food storage, Reading care labels
(and sometimes carefully disregarding them), Keeping your home free
of dust mites and other allergens, Home safety and security, A
summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident
liability, contracts, and domestic employees and more in this
practical, good-humored, historic, philosophical, even romantic,
guidebook to the art of household management.
Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing
guru like Marie Kondo-he's just a regular guy who was stressed out
and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he
decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he
didn't absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained
true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude for
everything around him. In Goodbye, Things Sasaki modestly shares
his personal minimalist experience, offering specific tips on the
minimizing process and revealing how the new minimalist movement
can not only transform your space but truly enrich your life. The
benefits of a minimalist life can be realized by anyone, and
Sasaki's humble vision of true happiness will open your eyes to
minimalism's potential.
Build your own treehouses, swing sets, skate ramps, Ninja courses,
and more! Kids and families of all ages are rediscovering the great
outdoors, including their own backyards. It is more important than
ever to be able to entertain our kids at home, teach them about
nature, and give them a great time building, exercising, staying in
shape, and working together. All of these actions help foster
independence, confidence, and growth. In Do-It-Yourself Backyard
Playgrounds, authors Jean and David Stiles offer user-friendly
plans (all hand-drawn by David) and step-by-step instructions to
help you build something great in your own backyard. They offer a
range of easy, timeless projects that can be made in an
afternoon--trolley ride, treasure chest, circle swing, lemonade
stand--alongside more ambitious projects, like the warped wall and
treehouse. Learn how to build a complete Ninja adventure course and
see how the treehouse can double as a home base for the adventure
course that radiates from it! The book includes photos of projects
(during construction and completed), and explanatory step-by-step
illustrations.
"This practical, step-by-step resource will empower you to tackle
the task of getting organized so both your home and your mind can
finally become calm and chaos-free."--KAREN EHMAN, author of Reach
Out, Gather In and the New York Times bestseller Keep It Shut
Create the Organized Home and Life You've Always Longed For Living
in a disorganized, cluttered home can leave you feeling chaotic,
anxious, and even depressed. You want a change, but you don't know
where to begin. Home coach Shannon Acheson is here to help. She has
written the only book you'll ever need to get your entire home
sorted and organized for good--in a way that makes sense for you
and your family's unique, God-given personalities. In The Clutter
Fix, Shannon helps you * win the battle with all of your stuff by
following her step-by-step instructions and checklists * discover
your Clutter Personality and your Organizing Personality * create
rhythms and routines to keep your home decluttered Clutter isn't
just about the stuff. It's about how you feel in your home--and in
your mind. This book will give you the peaceful dwelling you've
always hoped for.
Swedish-born, London-based interior designer Beata Heuman founded
her eponymous studio in 2013 after working for Nicky Haslam for
nine years. In a short amount of time her lively interiors and
custom furnishings have made her one of today s most in-demand
creatives. Heuman s rooms, colourful spaces enlivened by exuberant
elements and poetic inspirations, capture her signature quirkiness
and Scandinavian attention to detail while staying rooted in
practicality. Lauded for international residential and commercial
projects, Heuman has also garnered praise for her growing
collection of bespoke fabrics, wallpaper, lighting, homewares, and
furniture. This beautifully crafted volume presents Heuman s
innovative approach in book form for the very first time. Organized
according to design principle, each chapter offers fresh ways to
think about decorating a home, finding your voice, making ordinary
details extraordinary, and forging a truly unique space. Vibrant
photographs showcase standout properties including several London
town houses and a Nantucket vacation residence that are brought to
life by cheerful colour palettes, unexpected contrasts, and a
degage use of bold patterns and texture. With original drawings and
whimsical graphic details, this new tome is a dynamic look into the
ethos and work of one of the most exciting names in interior design
today.
A retro-fit offers many benefits: cutting electricity and heating
bills, increasing the resale value of homes, slashing carbon
emissions and creating a healthier place to live. This book is the
guide to making it happen. It looks at: draught-proofing,
insulation and damp ventilation, heating and cooling electrical
efficiency and renewable energy water use and re-use materials'
life cycles and incorporating nature protection from climate change
impacts - modelling energy flows and embodied energy how we can
meet the need to cut carbon emissions from dwellings by eighty
percent by 2050. Projects can apply to apartment blocks, recent
builds and older, solid-walled properties. Enlivened with helpful
diagrams and photographs, plus plenty of pointers for further
information, it provides a comprehensive resource handbook for any
building professional and contractor, students - or any homeowner
serious about efficiency (cash and carbon) savings.
How to build a dream house without breaking the bank Packed with
useful information, tips, and checklists, this easy--to--follow
guide shows people step by step how to build a unique, beautiful
home on any budget. It covers all the must--know issues, from
acquiring land, finding the best architect, and cutting design
costs to putting together financing, hiring (or not hiring) a
general contractor, and overseeing construction. Kevin Daum
(Alameda, CA) has 20 years of experience in the real estate and
mortgage industry and is founder and CEO of Stratford Financial
Services. Janice Brewster (Arlington, VA), former editor of Log
Home Living magazine, has been involved in the custom home industry
for more than 10 years. Peter Economy (La Jolla, CA) is a veteran
For Dummies author and the Associate Editor of the Drucker
Foundation's Leader to Leader magazine.
Making, maintaining and mending our own homes is part of what makes
us human. It is a skill that was alive and well until just two or
three generations ago. Harrison Gardner is a man on a mission to
help us rediscover the lost art of building our own while leaving a
more harmonious mark on the environment. Build Your Own explores
the principles of construction and outlines a multitude of
practices and methods that enable you to build a home with the
materials available to you. Practical techniques, such as
plastering, moving earth, basic demolition, installing insulation,
building internal walls and attaching cladding, are demystified and
made easy. Whether you plan to build your own structure, are
curious about the idea or are dealing with construction workers,
Build Your Own is an essential tool that shows that anyone can
learn to build - and perhaps everyone should. 'A revolutionary book
... within it is the knowledge to empower you to shape and craft
your own living space.' Manchan Magan
In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey
of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East
London for a derelict chateau with 12 acres of land in the Loire
valley. Where Sunday Times bestseller A Year At The Chateau told
the entertaining and heartwarming beginning of the family's French
adventure, as they found their forever home and began to restore
and renovate the dilapidated castle, Living The Chateau Dream is
about the years of hard graft that followed. Dick and Angel leapt
into action transforming Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson into both a
thriving family home and a sustainable business, and began making
their dream of rural life in a fairytale castle a reality. From
throwing open the shutters to new suites to exploring the walled
garden, launching their wedding business and hosting guests for
food lover weekends, no stone was left unturned. From the
day-to-day tasks like installing a lift to the beginnings of
lifelong traditions and memories such as investigating the seasonal
delights of the surroundings and having a family sleepover on the
moat, this much-anticipated follow-up includes many firsts for the
Strawbridge family. As Dick and Angel recount stories of the
renovations that took place over the next four years at the
chateau, we start to understand the true extent of the work and
skill that it has taken to make this incredible house into a
much-loved home. With stories of remarkable discoveries and
unexpected challenges, amazing transformations and
once-in-a-lifetime celebrations, this book is sure to delight,
entertain and inspire fans in equal measure.
This is the fourth of six parts of a facsimile reprint of a
compendium of cookery, gardening, animal husbandry and general
household medicine which was published in two volumes in about
1760, having first been offered to the public in 41 weekly parts in
1756. The author claimed "upwards of Thirty Years Experience" as
housekeeper or cook, possibly in the service of a Lady Hewit, whose
manuscript receipt book - cookery and medicinal - is copied into
the published work. The work is arranged as a calendar discussing
marketing, cooking, preserving, brewing, medicines for men and
animals, and tending the orchard, the herb and vegetable garden and
the pleasure garden, month by month. Among its features are
descriptions of foods bought - spices, sugar, anchovies, olives,
soy sauce - as well as foods grown or cooked. Other hints about
marketing - buying fish, for instance - are more detailed than in
many other manuals of the period, and there are lists of specific
varieties of fruits as they are ready for the table.
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