Product Description: Homebuyers are busy again. An improving housing market and stabilizing economy, together with some lucrative first-time buyers' incentives, have put thousands upon thousands of people in an unfamiliar spot: their own home. For new homeowners as well as long-time occupants, Upgrade Your House is packed with instructions and suggestions for more than 100 easy DIY projects that make your home more a more livable place...read more

Product Description: Finding adequate storage space is an ongoing battle in every household. The Complete Guide to a Clutter-Free Home provides inspired answers and dozens of step-by-step projects that offer creative solutions to common storage challenges...read more

Product Description: Go Green & Gain Peace of MindWith this book, readers can sleep well knowing their remodeling and repair practices are protecting the environment and keeping their families healthy. This beautiful step-by-step guide features a host of practical projects and practices for green-thinking homeowners with a hands-on attitude...read more

An up-to-date guide to outdoor structures explains how to design and construct a variety of sheds and other landscape shelters, with easy-to-follow plans and directions for twelve sheds covering an array of design options, with guidelines on every step in the shed construction process and a bonus section of a dozen advanced shed designs. Original.

Alphabetically organized for easy access, an encyclopedic reference encompasses a wide variety of home repair and improvement projects and the type of professionals or specialists needed, along with practical guidelines on how to find the right resource, how to check references, how to negotiate fees and contracts, how to supervise a project, and more. Original.

A do-it-yourself guide to planning and remodeling an attic or basement space explains how to transform unfinished areas of the home into additional living space, in a handbook that includes complete, step-by-step instructions, tips, designs, and information for more than thirty remodeling projects. Original.

A comprehensive guide to outdoor patios and living spaces furnishes an introduction to the most popular building materials, along with complete guidelines on how to design, plan, and construct twelve different types of patios and tips on how to repair and maintain all kinds of outdoor spaces. Original.

Presents detailed instructions and complete project patterns for more than twelve unique treehouse designs, accompanied by detailed materials lists, a demonstration of construction methods, from the fundamentals to advanced finishing techniques, helpful tips, and more than 250 illustrations and photographs. Original.

An introduction to woodworking for beginning or intermediate do-it-yourselfers presents everything one needs to know to become a successful woodworker, from selecting and using a variety of tools to detailed plans for a series of useful woodworking projects, complemented by more than six hundred photographs, illustrations, and diagrams. Original. 30,000 first printing.

What if there were no constraints on the use of photographs and graphics; if books could show objects dynamically to illustrate their multi-dimensional characteristics; and if new and revised material could be added at frequent intervals in response to direct feedback from users? Welcome to ThermoNet! Combining a concise text and Web component, ThermoNet not only covers standard thermodynamics topics but also enhances learning through interactive animations, tutorials, exercises, and problems. An integrated learning package that brings thermodynamics to life: Developed by engineering educators with partial support from the National Science Foundation. Incorporates a Web-based resource where words are used to support visual representations. Utilizes graphics-rich environments to help readers gain a strong conceptual understanding of the material. Includes an interactive presentation of governing equations that clearly shows the physics underlying each term. Focuses the reader's attention on the fundamental principles and motivates them to master the concepts.

Product Description: The portable router gives the woodworker the ability to shape wood in an almost endless variety of ways, creating custom moldings, decorative edgings, and relief carvings of any type-all without the expense of stationary shapers. The router is one of the most popular power tools, called into use for nearly every woodworking project...read more

More than three hundred full-color photographs highlight a creative guide to decorating with architectural details, explaining how to create an innovative, custom look for every room in the house with a variety of architectural details, accompanied by tips on salvaging unique and historical features and information on tools, materials, and installation. Original.

Product Description: Covers basic framing information to installing tongue and groove paneling.-- Includes detailed information on finishing techniques. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Complete plans for 10 versatile buildings.-- Step-by-step instructions with full-color photos and illustrations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text fills the need for a comprehensive and thorough study of energy utilization and management. It details the most modern, proven techniques for heat recovery, and introduces second law efficiency for various energy system components...read more