Offers simple techniques to transforming drab furniture into showpieces, including easy-to-follow instructions for spray painting, applying gold leaf, wall papering, stenciling, and dip dyeing.

"She Sheds provides inspiration, tips, and tricks to help create the hideaway of your dreams"-- Provided by publisher.

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"How to organize everything, from America's most trusted lifestyle authority, with color photographs throughout and hundreds of ideas, projects, and tips."-- Provided by publisher. "Trust Martha to help you master all things organizing--sorting, purging, tidying, and simplifying your life--with smart solutions and inspiration. Here, she offers her best guidance, methods, and DIY projects for organizing in and around your home. Topics include room-by-room...

First published in 1996, “The Eyes of the Skin” has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense — sight — become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the more pressing and topical since the first edition's publication...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Sidewalks and streets in cities serve many purposes besides carrying vehicles, and city sidewalks serve many purposes besides carrying pedestrians. These uses are bound up with circulation, but are not identical with it. #2 The public peace of cities is not kept primarily by the police. It is kept primarily by an intricate network of voluntary controls and...

We have a worldwide trash epidemic. The average American disposes of 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, and our landfills hold 254 million tons of waste. What if there were a simple and fun way for you to make a difference? What if you could take charge of your own waste, reduce your carbon footprint, and make an individual impact on an already fragile environment? A zero waste lifestyle is the answer and Shia Su is living it. Every single piece of unrecyclable...

From the man shipped home in a rum barrel to the most dangerous woman in America, Chicago history comes to life in these tantalizing tales.Living Landmarks of Chicago goes beyond the what, when, and where to tell the how and why of fifty Chicago landmarks. More than a book about architecture, these are stories of the people who made Chicago and many of its most popular tourist attractions what they are today. Each chapter is a vignette that introduces...

The completely updated, illustrated bestseller on architectural graphics with over 500,000 copies sold Architectural Graphics presents a wide range of basic graphic tools and techniques designers use to communicate architectural ideas. Expanding upon the wealth of illustrations and information that have made this title a classic, this Fourth Edition provides expanded and updated coverage of drawing materials, multiview drawings, paraline drawings,...

Declutter your home without being overworked or overwhelmed. Have a home 10 times more clean in only 10 minutes a day! Lorraine Leet looks at why people clutter and makes it easy to unravel the causes. She gives the Clutterbug permission to be authentic while making progress decluttering. What if your home was picture perfect? What you will learn in this book: • That being a Clutterbug is okay. • How to eliminate procrastination. • How...