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In today's throwaway culture, there's a counter movement growing that urges us to 'make do and mend'. The Repair Shop has brought this waste-conscious message to an even wider audience, with its regular viewing figures of seven million in the UK alone, cementing itself as a classic series in the vein of Antiques Roadshow. This new book concentrates on the show's much-loved experts. Each of the experts shares their own stories and their repairs, capturing in the process the magic and ethos of the barn.

Sometimes life presents something so large, so outrageous, that it ends up changing everything. What in the world drove a single mother to bulldoze a canyon, cut a house in half, and tow it to a new location? Catastrophes and miracles shaped the future of an old house and a renewed family. Into Dark Corridors: A Tale of Hands, Heart, and Home is the story of a dream realized, and the struggles to make it real.

The buildings designed in our lifetimes encapsulate the dreams and aspirations of our culture, while also revealing the sobering realities. Whether modest or monumental, they offer a living history of Britain, symbols of the forces that have shaped our modern landscape and icons in their own right. Iconicon is an enthralling journey around the Britain we have created since 1980: the horrors and delights, the triumphs and failures.

This audiobook is for garden lovers, or for those who want to save a bit of money and become less dependent on stores! It mainly focuses on the running of a solar-powered greenhouse - including how to build one yourself - but also includes, to a lesser level of detail, many other ways to be self-sufficient.

Haben Sie es satt, bei jedem tropfenden Wasserhahn sofort den Handwerker rufen zu müssen und anschließend bang auf die Rechnung zu warten? Möchten Sie Ihr Eigenheim kostengünstig, zum Wunschzeitpunkt und exakt nach Ihren persönlichen Vorstellungen jederzeit umgestalten können? Und das Ganze darf nebenbei gerne auch zum erfüllenden, sinnvollen und kreativen Hobby werden? Dann springen Sie auf den immer beliebteren DIY-Zug auf und lassen Sie sich von diesem Ratgeber in kürzester Zeit zum Heimwerkerprofi ausbilden.

Du planst den Hausbau oder Hauskauf eines Tiny Houses? Oder interessierst du dich generell für kleine Häuser, ein Containerhaus, Minihäuser bzw. Modulhäuser? Du findest in diesem Hörbuch Baupläne und Grundrisse für Tiny Homes, und Denkanstöße die Du für den Innenausbau und die Inneneinrichtung deines Micro Hauses unbedingt beachten musst.

This book is a dummies' guide to helping you develop the tools you will need for professional voice-over work. This field is huge! You supply the talent, and I’ll show you what to do with it. These are blueprints, step-by-step plans showing you exactly how to build your own vocal home studio. The key thing to always bear in mind with voice acting and audio works is to fight the chief enemy of recordings…and that is "noise". Electronic hum, fan noise, bumps, bangs, bad weather, echos, and lawnmowers…whatever.

Most people dream of building their own custom home, customized to fit their lifestyle perfectly. But for Ryan Haag, life as a US Navy Officer makes building a custom home impossible. But a change in life circumstances suddenly gives Ryan the chance to build the home of his dreams. All of Ryan's preparation is put to the test as he navigates the complicated process of building a custom home from scratch on a virgin piece of land and with a limited budget.

In this guide, you will find 17 of the best toilet cleaning cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks that every toilet owner should know. It doesn't matter whether you are cleaning a toilet for the first time or you are a toilet cleaning expert, this audiobook will still be very beneficial for you. After utilizing the cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks featured in this guide, toilet cleaning will actually be more of an enjoyable task, and less of a hated chore.

Is noise impacting your quality of life at home? Neighbour and traffic noise adversely affects many homeowners. "The Noise Free Home" introduces a proven four-step soundproofing method that will protect your home from unwanted noise. Used by soundproofing installers and backed up by acoustic testing, this method will help you restore the peace and quiet you have been longing for.

Let’s face it: Our lives change. We transition from single to couple, to young family, to growing family, to empty nester, to retirement. Would you love to live in a home that adapts to different phases of your life, so you’d need to move less often? Is it possible to build such a home? This book teaches you about building concepts and prepares you to thoughtfully design your future home, a home that adapts to different phases of your life, reducing your need to move.

Are you new to construction and lost when people are talking on the job? Do you have a little experience but are looking to really know what you're talking about? Do you want to know just WTF people are talking about at work? Do you like to laugh? If you learn well with a little bit of humor, and are more concerned with understanding what the hell people are talking about than knowing the textbook definition - yep, this book is for you.

Building a swimming pool may seem like an enormous task. But with this book that large task is logically broken down into an organized procession of much smaller ones. Each step is explained in clear and precise language and is never vague. At the beginning of each chapter you are given a complete list of tools and supplies needed for that step in the process.

This audiobook was written by Keith Persons who was tired of contractors ripping off the general consumer. After years of working in construction and witnessing how these unscrupulous individuals were making game out of ripping off the homeowners, without a care of who was harmed. So Keith decided to sit down and write this audiobook and try to help these poor homeowners to first understand the dangers in doing it wrong, and then showing them how to do it right. It is a simple listen and easy to understand.

An invasion of mysterious bugs, the discovery of hundreds of skeletons in the backyard and occasional visitations from a ghost who smoked Marlboro Lights weren't what I had in mind when I dreamed of owning a home in Tuscany. My search for a quaint country house in move-in condition near Florence instead led to the purchase of an abandoned church we fondly referred to as "The Italian Money Pit", and the project took several years to complete.

In this guide, you will find 47 of the best plumbing cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks that you need to know. Whether you are a certified plumber or just the average homeowner, this book can be very beneficial to you. Plumbing projects can be hard to tackle without cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks to help you through them.

In this guide, you will find 47 of the best painting cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks that will make painting less stressful. It doesn't matter whether you are a beginner painter or a professional painter, this audiobook will still be very beneficial to you. Painting will be as easy as cake if you use the cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks featured in this guide. I have used all of the cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks from this guide at least once in my lifetime, while doing a painting project. What are you waiting for? Don't let painting stress you out, ever again!

Apprenez en toute simplicité à fabriquer un système d'énergie solaire de A à Z, même si vous êtes un véritable novice et que vous commencez à peine.

Winter, for many people, is the toughest season of the year, so why not cheat, hack, hint, tip, and trick your way through it? In this guide, you will find over 47 different cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks that will help you get through winter. This is the last and only guide you need to show winter who the real boss is.

In this guide, you will find 47 different bathroom cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks that you should use in your bathroom right away. Spending time in your bathroom can be stressful if you are not using any cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks to make it a more tranquil environment. This is the last and only guide you will ever need to make the time spent in your bathroom more enjoyable.