Home and house maintenance

Omlet's easy-to-clean, safe and stylish Eglu chicken houses became an instant design icon when they were launched in 2004.

A couple realise that the best way to get the house they want is to build it themselves.

Happy by Design teaches us how we can actively improve our health and wellbeing through the way we design our living spaces.

The new book from interior design powerhouse Abigail Ahern, Her Masterclass is based on the building blocks that will make your home look great: seating, lighting, walls, floors and accessories.

A must-read for anyone with an adventurous spirit, a yen to whittle and chop, and a desire to get out into nature and play with sticks!

Minimise waste and maximise creativity with 14 stylish freehand dressmaking projects from Chinelo Bally.

Carving Kitchen Tools is the beginning of your woodworking journey and is a practical guide to creating your own beautiful utensils.

In this practical book, learn how to make beautiful, folk mobiles - also known as 'pajaki' - to decorate your home or event space in show-stopping style.

A practical how-to guide from the author of Mad About the House, the bestselling book and UK's number 1 interiors blog.

Cath Kidston - queen of vintage-inspired homeware and joyously decorated spaces - grants unprecedented insight into her creative process and personal style in this lifestyle-meets-memoir-meets-interior-design book.

With this guide to mending and patching, you don't have to say goodbye to your worn favourite clothes.

A Petal Unfolds is brimming with easy-to-make DIY paper flowers to bring beauty to your home.

A beautifully presented, practical gift guide to the age-old art of tying knots.

Design your own dolls with this amazing book of mix-and-match crochet patterns.

This book is for anyone who wants to get onto and climb the property ladder.

'No one knows sheds like Joel Bird.

Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the history of the institution and its community.

Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the history of the institution and its community.

Did you know that "e;cabbage odor"e; can be avoided by dropping two English walnuts (uncracked) into the kettle while cooking?

For someone with an intellectual disability, leaving ones family for a group home can be rather a frightening experience.

Grandma Knows Best encompasses a wealth of long-forgotten knowledge on all things homely, from gardening and cooking to making and mending.

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It has been over 60 years since the last guide to the care of church linens and textiles was published and despite being used in every parish church, popular knowledge of their proper use and care is diminishing.

Whether you're looking for a flatshare or renting out a room The Essential Guide to Flatsharing has everything you need to know.

Grandma's Ways represents a large repository of knowledge that we have mostly forgotten.

'Think of your house as an allegory for your body.

Gergely BajzA!

If you drive a car then this is the book for you.

TheA 13thA title in the Veloce handbook series this book could pay for itself in one repair!

This book offers those who may be thinking of building their own own shed practical constructional advice and use of materials; all of the sheds in the book have actually been built, and are not just ideas.

Permaculture design as divine creative activity.

In this disposable age its always refreshing to be able to fix things yourself.

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 ch teau with 12 acres of land in the Loire valley.

Between 1979 and 1997 over a quarter of Britain's regional theatres closed down.

'A handsome yet joyful manual for easy, stylish living.

Spark a passion for sailng and the outdoors in your childFrom the Moonbeam Children s Book Awardsbronze medal winner!

Sharing 40 years of experience in the garden to help people live in a way that helps the planet

A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood the material that shaped human history.

Putzen ist mehr als nur eine lästige Pflicht, die du vielleicht als Zeitverschwendung ansiehst.

Build-to-rent (BTR) is a new kind of rental community.

The Renewable Energy Home Handbook is biased towards the practical, and covers the installation of all leading types of alternative domestic energy sources - from ground- and air-source heat pumps, PV solar electricity generation and solar water heating, to bio-mass domestic heating systems and wind turbines.

* La construcción de objetos con madera no es algo que esté sólo al alcance de los profesionales: cualquiera, con un mínimo equipamiento y la información que se facilita en este libro, podrá construir los más variados y prácticos objetos en un fin de semana.

* Un libro profusamente ilustrado con soluciones prácticas y nuevas propuestas de los mejores arquitectos italianos.

* La mayoría de las veces, cuando se piensa en construcciones en madera, se idean proyectos grandes, costosos e inacabables que acaban minando la paciencia de los aficionados; pero esto no tiene por qué ser así.

* Las estanterías son indispensables en una casa.

* Una silla es un elemento indispensable en cualquier casa.

* ¿Cuántas veces ha estado esperando al electricista, al fontanero o al albañil, que tardaban en hacer una reparación, o ha palidecido al ver la factura astronómica que le presentaban?

'Sound, well-seasoned advice [on] how to bring wood fires into our lives.