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Whether you’re looking to adopt a greener lifestyle or wanting to go off the grid, this guide has all you need to know to boost your self-sufficiency. Worried about ever-rising fuel bills and longing for the day when you can be off-grid and independent? Anxious about the quality of the food you eat and planning to go organic? Yearning to get back to the way it was but don’t know where to start? This book will show you how to achieve the eco-friendly good life. The authors cover the ecological gamut from geothermal heating to crop rotation to soap making. They answer important questions like how much land is really needed to be self-sufficient, whether or not to depend entirely on natural...
• Practical, accessible book for DIY homeowners. • 16 stylish easy-to-build outdoor projects. • Range of projects for all levels of expertise. • Comprehensive information on tools and materials, foundations, cutting brick and stone, and bricklaying. • Step-by-step color photographs and clear construction diagrams • Written by expert DIY authors
"The book will help readers mightily...The projects outlined are clearly laid out, the instructions for them easy to follow. The projects...are multicultural, too, for they include an African art object, traditional American art objects, a Native-American art object, a French art object, and, yes, even an Icelandic art object."--"Booklist. "Bonus: the ratings of various manufacturers' models. Helpful descriptions of tool types are included.
Twenty-eight step-by-step projects result in working wooden models that demonstrate fundamental concepts of motion and mechanics such as used in cameras, combustion and steam engines, locks, and pumps.
Following the popular BBC series, this book is the comprehensive guide to one of Europe's largest and most ambitious gardening projects, the magnificent RHS Bridgewater. RHS Garden Bridgewater has a rich history, deeply entrenched personal connections with the local community and now a dazzling and exciting future, all of which is brought to life in this sumptuous book. Set on the site of the former Worsley New Hall stately home in Manchester, bordering the Bridgewater canal, the Bridgewater garden is one of the most exciting public garden projects undertaken anywhere in the world in recent years. Guided by a masterplan from the renowned landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith, it is a showpiec...
Plans for 15 machines with visible wheels, cranks, pistons and other moving parts made of wood. Illus.
Much more than physical barriers, doors and gates are powerful statements. With this book you can choose and build an entrance that reflects your personal style. Packed with designs for every architectural taste from simple to grand. Detailed charts identify component parts and joints; Steps for constructing and hanging; Exercises to help perfect door and gate making skills; Designs for all skill levels.
Comprehensive collection of over 300 patterns and forms (many drawn from early sources) which provides suitable motifs for use to all those interested in the fields of craft, design and art.
20 painting wood projects for the home. Covers feathering, candle marbling, tortoise-shelling, graining and freehand techniques.
In this shop safety manual, numbered tips and color illustrations teach woodworkers how to use tools, finishing materials and electricity safely.