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Harness the Sun is a practical, easy-to-understand guide designed to help homeowners and beginners confidently explore the world of solar power. Whether you're considering installing solar panels or simply want to understand how solar energy can transform your home, this book provides the knowledge you need to make smart and cost-effective decisions. Solar energy is no longer just for experts or large installations. With advancing technologies and falling equipment costs, more households than ever are switching to clean, renewable power.

The green-building movement has produced hundreds of "how-to" books and websites that are filled with tips about green building and what homeowners should do to go green. While helpful and informative, when it comes to making actual purchasing and installation decisions, these books do not make it any easier for a homeowner to prioritize against a budget. Here, Melisssa Rappaport Schifman shares her knowledge and experience for others to use in their journey toward a greener way of living. 

Modern homes are often filled with noise, clutter, harsh lighting, and constant stimulation—making it difficult for the mind and body to truly relax. The Calm Home offers a practical approach to creating spaces that support comfort, emotional balance, and sensory ease.

Clutter is not just a storage problem. It is a stress problem. From overflowing closets and chaotic kitchen counters to digital overload and paper piles, clutter quietly drains your time, energy, and mental clarity. It turns your home into a source of anxiety instead of a place of rest. The Clutter-Free Mind is a practical, no-perfection-required guide to reclaiming your space and restoring calm to your daily life.

Improving your home’s energy efficiency doesn’t require expensive renovations or complicated upgrades. Often, the most meaningful changes come from small, thoughtful improvements that reduce waste, increase comfort, and lower monthly energy costs.

Home is often seen as a place of comfort and refuge, yet beneath its calm surface lies a continuous flow of materials, energy, water, and consumption. Much of this flow follows a linear path—from purchase to disposal—quietly generating waste, inefficiency, and environmental strain. The Circular Home invites listeners to rethink this familiar system and reimagine the home as a regenerative, intelligent ecosystem built on the principles of circular living.

Sunflower Inspired Living is a beautifully crafted guide for anyone who loves decorating with meaning, creating by hand, and designing spaces and events that feel joyful and welcoming. Inspired by the timeless beauty and symbolism of sunflowers, this book blends creativity, home décor, and heartfelt handmade projects into one inspiring lifestyle guide.

When it comes to truly finding out who you are and what makes you tick, there is one thing that needs no online subscription to a cloud-based server with a password you keep forgetting. That, my friend, is a shed. Your shed is your refuge. It's the place where you go when you need a break from this mad, crazy world. Once you're inside the four walls of your shed, you can do whatever you like. You're the king in there.

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 château with 12 acres of land in the Loire valley. Where Sunday Times bestseller A Year At The Château told the entertaining and...

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.

In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning to...

Real Life Organizing offers clutter-free storage solutions and advice that can help you create a Pinterest-worthy home on a small budget: Learn how to organize your home, simplify life, and have more time for the things you love.

In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand-in-hand with duty and honour. This was a time when the ancestral seats of ancient nobility stood side-by-side with the fabulous palaces of Jewish bankers and Indian princes, when dukes and duchesses mixed with aristocratic society hostesses who had learned to dance in the chorus line and self-made millionaires who had been raised in the slums of Manchester and Birmingham.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by clutter in your small apartment? Struggling to create harmony in your rental space? Looking for practical feng shui solutions that work in modern urban environments? This comprehensive audiobook brings ancient feng shui principles into the 21st century, specifically tailored for renters and lease-restricted spaces.

If you want to be sure you can survive in an emergency situation, now is the time to start preparing—and it’s easier than you might think. The future is unpredictable, and the systems we rely on can disappear faster than anyone expects. Preparing now means peace of mind—knowing that if the grid goes down, you’ll have the skills and confidence to keep your family safe, fed, and secure.

LEARNING LANDSCAPING: Advice & Hacks for Amateurs is a practical, beginner-friendly guide designed to help homeowners, DIY enthusiasts, and first-time landscapers plan, build, and maintain beautiful outdoor spaces without wasting money or relying heavily on professionals. This step-by-step landscaping book removes the guesswork and breaks complex concepts into clear, easy-to-follow systems. Whether you’re working with a small yard, a large property, or a tropical or coastal environment, this guide shows you exactly what to do—and what to avoid.

Your home should be a place of safety—not stress, surprises, or hidden damage. Yet most homeowners are never taught how mold forms, where water damage begins, or how small issues quietly turn into major losses. By the time problems become visible, the damage is already done. In Protecting the Nest, licensed mold and water damage professional Cesar A. Hernandez shares what years of inspections, storm recovery, and remediation have taught him: most home damage is preventable so long as you know what to look for.

Bring order to your home and focus to your busy life with Tidy Dad’s guiding principles and practical routines for organizing, cleaning, and prioritizing—both emotionally and physically. A father of three with a stressful job, Tyler Moore felt his life resembled an overstuffed closet...

From the authors of The New York Times bestseller The Home Edit and The Home Edit Life and hosts of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit, comes a guide to the most important phase of getting organized: staying that way. It's one thing to get organized, but how do you make those...

A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Drew...