Showing results for "patrick" in House & Home

From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years.

Organization tips that work: staying organized and declutter your home in just 15 minutes now! No matter how many episodes of Hoarders you have seen, you still should not consider yourself a bad person if your home is filled with clutter. Clutter can accumulate in many ways: through laziness, neglect, a busy schedule that does not allow for regular cleaning, not enough space for the people living in the home, any number of reasons.

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone.

Moving house has never flustered author Jane Christmas. She loves houses: viewing them, negotiating their price, dreaming up interior plans, hiring tradespeople to do the work and overseeing renovations. She loves houses so much that she’s moved thirty-two times. With humour and irreverence, Open House reveals that what we think we gain by constantly moving house actually obscures the precious and vital parts of our lives that we leave behind.This is a memoir that will appeal to anyone whose pulse quickens at the mere mention of real estate.

Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s an address, for a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn’t know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he’s a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. You can learn a lot over 7 years of renovations.

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.

Everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100-mpg car is a dangerous fantasy. We are consumers, and we like to consume greenly and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross-purposes to our true goal: living sustainably while caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem - we have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption.

Old houses share their secrets only if they survive. Trading the corporate ladder for a stepladder, Lee McColgan commits to preserving the ramshackle Loring House, built in 1702, using period materials and methods and on a holiday deadline. But his enchantment withers as he discovers the massive repairs it needs. A small kitchen fix reveals that the structure’s rotten frame could collapse at any moment. In a bathroom, mold appears and spreads. He fights deteriorating bricks, frozen pipes, shattered windows, a punctured foundation, and even an airborne chimney cap.

Are you preparing to purchase a new home for your family utilizing an FHA 203K mortgage or even just considering one? Then here is the resource you need! How to Survive a 203K Mortgage outlines step-by-step how to walk through the potential mine fields of home ownership using this financial tool and come out on the other side as a real estate winner!

Are you preparing to purchase a home for your family? Then here is the resource for you! No one who is even beginning to think in terms of a buying a home should be without it. News sources are full of home-purchasing horror stories. Foreclosures and short sales can turn a dream house into a nightmare. You're not the world's greatest DIYer, nor are you a financial wizard. How to Survive a Home Purchase outlines step-by-step how to walk through the potential mine fields of home ownership and come out on the other side as a real estate winner!

Das Hörbuch ist für alle, die nach mehr Ordnung in ihrem Leben streben. Ob zuhause in den eigenen vier Wänden, im Auto, in der Handtasche - Chaos und Unordnung wirkt negativ auf unsere Psyche und damit auf unser Wohlbefinden und unseren Raum zur persönlichen Entfaltung. In diesem Hörbuch erfährst du, was es mit Ordnung und Chaos auf sich hat. Ich zeige dir, wo alles seinen Ursprung hat und mit welchen Methoden du am besten Ordnung schaffen und beibehalten kannst.

This construction cheat, hack, hint, tip, and trick audiobook is packed with a ton of stuff to help you work more efficiently and effectively on your next construction project. Whether you're a professional contractor or a DIY enthusiast, this guide is the perfect resource for anyone looking to improve their construction skills.

Are you sick of turning your home upside down just to find something? Are there places in your house you're too ashamed to show friends or guests? Are you losing the war against clutter in your home? It's time you do something about it. Clutter is sneaky. If left to go on, it will consume your home and your life. What's more, instead of experiencing the joy of less, you experience damaging stress instead. But it doesn't have to stay that way. To beat clutter for good, it's not enough to just clean up.

Würdest du auch gerne mehr Zeit haben, trotz jeder Menge Hausarbeit? Wer seinen Haushalt gut organisiert, hat endlich Zeit für die wirklich wichtigen Dinge im Leben. Wenn du nicht weißt, wo du am besten anfangen solltest, dann geht es dir wie vielen Menschen in Deutschland. Teilweise fühlt man sich von seiner Hausarbeit richtig überfordert.

Space for a big garden. Fruit trees. A huge barn. A deck with an amazing view. The blackberry-infested property on the hill seemed to have limitless potential. When Tammy Owen moved from the city to a five-acre farm, she hoped to learn how to live closer to the land. What she learned instead was a lot about life.

Chromecast is an amazing digital device that was designed by Google, and it is becoming popular. This device is used to stream content online with the aid of an internet connection directly on your television. This handy device is connected to a television set which will grant you access to several services.