From the Kew Experts series, this book is perfect book for the house plant gardener, filled with invaluable tips, tricks and handy advice to help your plants thrive! Are your house plants forlorn? Do they need more knowledgeable attention? With the help of experts from the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, discover which plants are delicate and which indestructible, whether these are cacti, succulents, air plants or those famous for their flowers, foliage, fragrance and even air freshening powers. Learn how to nurture your house plants and cultivate an oasis of calm using the advice and projects in this pretty guide to 70 of the best. Here you'll find plants for all tastes, all rooms, cold and warm temperatures, all light levels and every skill set. Find the right home for your plants and the right plants for your home. This beautifully illustrated guide mixes exquisite botanical prints with 12 step-by-step photographed projects that show how to create and display the trendiest and lushest arrangements today. Author Kay Maguire goes back to the basics of choosing, potting, feeding and care, then looks further at pruning and propagating in order to make more plants. This is the perfect book for new or experienced stay-at-home gardeners wanting to improve their outlook, freshen their air and cultivate a little bit of calm. This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing Herbs and Guide to Growing Vegetables.

Originally published in 1918, this is a wonderful book of things for children, young adults or 'handy' grown-ups to make, full of great project pieces. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include A Sawing Trestle A Joiner's Bench A Handy Bookstand A House Ladder A Developing Sink A Poultry House and Run A Shed for your Bicycle A Target Apparatus for Rifle Shooting Cabinet-Making Telegraphic Apparatus A Reciprocating Electric Motor An Electric Alarm Clock A Model Electric Railway A Simple Reciprocation Engine A Horizontal Slide-Value Engine Model Steam Turbines Steam Tops Model Boilers Quick-Boiling Kettles A Hot Air Engine A Water Motor Model Pumps Kites Paper Gliders A Self Launching Model Aeroplane Apparatus for Simple Scientific Experiments A Rain Gauge Wind Vanes with Dials A Strength-Testing Machine Lung-Testing Apparatus Home-Made Harmonographs A Self-Supplying Matchbox A Wooden Workbox Wrestling Puppets Double Bellows A Home-made Pantograph A Silhouette Drawing Machine A Signalling Lamp A Miniature Gasworks

Enjoying the boat living lifestyle! An essential introduction to sailboat living that provides detailed information on how to successfully and happily live aboard a boat. This book is filled with a wealth of fundamental and practical advice with tips on: purchasing a boat, understanding boat systems, maintenance and boat care, projects for the do it yourselfers, cost factors, and an international recipe section. Also included are sources for boat equipment. A strong emphasis is placed on the safety issues and current laws pertaining to the operation of sailboats.

This book provides you with the necessary knowledge plus the "how-to" expertise to enable any contractor, student, or homeowner to construct a variety of yard and garden structers. Each chapter, written in easy-to-understand language and complemented with ample diagrams, stresses the importance that plannin plays as well as reviewing all the various considerations affecting the project's eventual outcome prior to its actual construction. Everything from patios and decks to fireplaces and sprinklers is discussed. Most of the guesswork associated with the purchase of material is eliminated with the help of tables and charts. This book will serve as a handy reference guide, a teaching manual, and a confidence builder.

Fast, efficient, and effective, Japanese handplanes are attracting increasing notice among Western cabinetmakers, carpenters, and woodworkers. These tools are meant to be used, used hard, and produce rapid, excellent results. Author and woodworking instructor Scott Wynn shows you how to choose, set up, maintain, and use these versatile tools to achieve stunning results. Japanese blades are arguably the best in the world, and Scott shares his methods for keeping those blades sharp. Japanese-style planes are also quick to build, and Scott shows how to make your own custom plane in a special section. Discover why this traditional tool has a home in your modern workshop, with step-by-step instructions, full-color photos, detailed illustrations, and clear diagrams.

Take a journey through your home from top to bottom. You'll be surprised by all the dirt you discover

Richard A. Slinde, a longtime domestic cleaner, has seen how messy homes can become during his more than thirty years of cleaning houses and apartments, both big and small. In "Domestic Olympics: The Ultimate Housecleaning Guide," Slinde provides step-by-step, room-by-room guidance for cleaning your home in fun and easy ways.

Each room is fair game for cleaning-your kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and every nook and cranny in between. You'll learn time-saving cleaning routines specifically created for each room in your house. Along the way, you'll also discover how to evaluate cleaning products, wash your walls, shampoo your furniture, eliminate roaches and other pests, and engage in a top-to-bottom spring cleaning that will ensure you haven't missed a thing.

It doesn't matter whether you rent or own, whether you have a big family or live by yourself, "Domestic Olympics" provides practical tools and strategies that can make your life easier and your living quarters cleaner.

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese philosophy and study of the relationship between human beings and their environment. This science of physics offers one way of understanding why some less-than-desirable conditions in our lives are an example of how we live. By practicing Feng Shui at home, we can create a comfortable environment that can also help enhance our personal and professional lives. Inside this book you will find out how:

. something as simple as painting your front door could help you have a flourishing career

. placing a bowl of fruit and including pictures of loved ones can promote better health and well-being

. placing a money vase, water fountain, or coins and plants could promote and invite increased prosperity

. letting go of old and worn-out items in addition to clearing clutter may help to invite in the perfect love relationship

You will discover easy solutions for making positive and effective changes in your life by changing your home. Included are many real-life examples of how people desired and received the life they wanted by changing how they live in their homes.

Choosing a new house design is exciting, but it's also difficult. The Big Book of Small Home Plans, 2nd Edition makes it easy! Featuring a catalog of small home designs with all of the amenities homeowners look for in a new home, this practical, do-it-yourself guide will help you build the small home of your dreams by doing all or part of the work yourself! Whether you're looking to build a cabin, cottage, small home, or tiny house, you're sure to find the ideal small home with the features that will fit your lifestyle inside The Big Book of Small Home Plans, 2nd Edition. Select from more than 360 plans - including 140 new plans - prepared by expert architects and designers, for building a variety of small homes under 1,200 square feet. Easy-to-follow construction blueprints and materials lists are available to purchase for each project, and blueprints are available in both print and digital formats. The Big Book of Small Home Plans is also packed with advice and useful tips on small home organizing, decorating, and storage. Start your search right now for the perfect small home! Newly updated edition also features revisions to existing plans, as well as new photography for newly added plans.

Decorate with Feng Shui to balance and support good energy in the home or office by using this step-by step, easy-to-follow 26-card deck for effective life change. Each card is crafted to reveal a deeper understanding of how even the slightest changes, combined with the right intention, can greatly enrich the harmony in your space. Use the map of energy (a Bagua) by focusing on 9 areas of your life (Gua cards) representing prosperity, fame, relationships, family, health, creativity, self improvement, career, and travel. 13 Yin/Yang Room cards (representing varied rooms of the home) and 5 question cards offer you ideas containing optimal furniture pieces to consider, colors to use, and placement directions that will enhance and balance energy flow. Just focus on the changes you need to make in your life and place the room cards and decorating suggestions on the map to discover room solutions. Intended for beginners to advanced practitioners and designers.Includes cards and book.