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Books > Health, Home & Family > Home & house maintenance
'n Gids tot die grondbeginsels van huisontwerp, dekor en meubilering.
How long is an ell? What is the largest size of champagne bottle?
How do you measure the heat of a chilli pepper? Why is the depth of
water measured in fathoms? And what is a cubit? The Curious History
of Weights & Measures tells the story of how we have come to
quantify the world around us. Looking at everything from carats,
pecks and pennyweights to firkins and baker's dozens through to
modern science-based standards such as kilograms and kilometres,
this book considers both what sparked the creation of myriad
measures and why there were so many efforts to usher in
standardisation. Full of handy conversion charts and beautiful
illustrations The Curious History of Weights & Measures is a
treasure trove of fun facts and intriguing stories about the
calculations we use every day.
New, Improved, Updated and Expanded - 3rd Edition. High Quality,
Premium Product. Grow Your Own Healthy, Popular, and Profitable
Organic Produce! In this book, you'll learn how to start your
organic farm at home, which crops to grow, and how to get certified
as an organic producer. This book has everything you need to get
started as an organic farmer! When you get Farming: Organic Farming
- Grow Your Own: Fruits & Vegetables! Plus Start An Organic
Farm Business, you'll not only learn the skills and techniques
you'll need to run a prospering farm, you'll also learn how to
connect with other farmers and trade ideas, supplies, and
equipment. You're joining a community of positive, helpful
idealists who want to make the world a better place! Don't wait
another minute to start your dream farm - Get your copy right away!
You'll even get a FREE BONUS book inside!
Kelly Hoppen, multi-award-winning designer and TV personality,
shares her essential style solutions that will transform your home.
Kelly knows what works, and here she shows you how to do it by
bringing together creative ideas and inspiration alongside a wealth
of professional know-how, practical advice and cost-effective style
solutions that can work for every home, big or small. Whether you
are a young professional renting a flat, a first-time homebuyer or
an experienced homeowner who wants to give your home a dash of
Kelly Hoppen glamour, this book will help you create a beautiful,
functional and relaxing home that suits your individual needs and
reflects your personality. With over 200 images, carefully selected
and curated by a world-renowned design guru with over 40 years'
experience, Kelly Hoppen's Essential Style Solutions for Every Home
gives you: Clear and easy-to-follow advice on the first principles
of style including tones and colour, texture, light and finishing
touches. The lowdown on practicalities, budgeting and prioritizing
from Kelly's expert perspective. Tried-and-tested tricks of the
trade that show you how to use colour and tones that will make your
rooms feel bigger and brighter. Tips on how to dress and
accessorise rooms for maximum impact. Room-by-room case studies
focus on the main spaces in the home as well as dead space such as
corridors, addressing the feeling you are aiming to create, and
setting out the core elements and top styling tips to allow you to
achieve this. Where applicable, Kelly makes cost-cutting
suggestions for saving money by choosing less-expensive materials,
advising what it's worth splashing out on and where you can afford
to spend less, as well as ideas for making quick-and-easy seasonal
updates to inexpensively refresh your rooms on a regular basis. Get
the luxe look for less with Kelly Hoppen's Essential Style
Solutions for Every Home.
The Wheelwright's Shop By George Stuart Originally published in
1930. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to
the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork. Contents include: The Wheelwright's shop - Timber:
Buying - Timber: Carting and converting - The Sawyers - Timber:
Seasoning - Wheel-stuff - Hand work - Bottom-timbers - Waggons -
Curves, Tapering and Shaving - Learning the trade - Wheels: Dish -
Wheels: Spokes and Felloes - Stocks and Ringing the Wheel - The
Smith: Getting ready - The smith: Putting on and Boxing on - Iron
work and Jobbing.
The mystical movement of energy, Vaastu Shastra from India and Feng
Shui from China are looked at through 'house dressing' and creating
a healthy home from the ancient secrets of these sacred studies for
the modern age. Over the last sixty years these olde mysteries have
found worldwide application in all aspects of architecture and
interior design with the aim to create healthier environments and
homes by balancing the flow of positive and negative energies.
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