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Whether you're a veteran property owner or just starting out, here you'll uncover the real estate expertise you need to select the finest land for your new home.

The Off-Grid Survival Handbook for Beginners is your ultimate guide to living off the land, building resilience, and creating a life of purpose and independence. Whether you're looking to homestead, live off-grid in a tiny home, or simply prepare for emergencies to safeguard your home, power, water, and food, this book offers the practical tools and mindset you need to thrive.

Are you a weekend carpenter that wants to make traditional Japanese joints? Do you want to apply Japanese ingenuity of design to everyday furniture and give them a special character? For centuries before the invention of screws and fasteners, Japanese craftsmen used complex, interlocking joints to connect pieces of wood for structures and beams, helping to create a unique Japanese aesthetic that can still be seen in the works of modern masters like Shigeru Ban. Up until recent times, however, these techniques were often the carefully guarded secrets of family carpentry guilds.

You have a sink full of dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, 17 bills to pay, 36 e-mails to answer, a big stack of novels on the nightstand you would love to read, and zero minutes of free time. You cannot add more hours to the day, but Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will help you make the most of the time you do have and get things done.

Detouring from the traditional timeline of marriage-kids-house, 26-year-old Vikki Warner skips straight to homeownership. She buys a run-down three-story house in Providence, Rhode Island, and suddenly finds herself responsible for a rotating cast of colorful tenants. Adulthood comes with unforeseen challenges: backed-up sewage, gentrification, global economic downturn. Tenemental is a candid portrait of how sharing space profoundly reshapes our lives, and forces us to grow into ourselves.

50 Things to Know About Home Staging, by Amanda Walton, offers an approach to being able to get people interested in your home so you can sell it quickly.

You could scour the internet, searching hundreds of websites for the best tips and tricks to live better, but that would take countless hours and a great deal of research. Instead of wasting your time doing that, hack your way to a better life using this valuable audiobook. In this guide, we have done the hard work for you, gathering the best life hacks and organizing them together in one easy reference location. You can relax, listen, and streamline.

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. There are good reasons for her...

The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as the work-from-home revolution. But it was second nature to the ancient Romans, for whom the home was in many ways the center of public and private life. Roman authors saw infinite practical and symbolic value in houses, and they have much to say about them. How to Make a Home presents some of the best Roman writings on houses—from buying and selling to designing and decorating.

DIY Backyard Upgrades: Summer Home Project Guide is your friendly companion for a season of rewarding weekend projects. Designed for homeowners and DIY enthusiasts in their 30s to 60s, this practical guide will help you enhance your outdoor space with confidence and creativity. With warm weather and longer days on your side, it's the perfect time to tackle those backyard upgrades you've been dreaming about.

PEX Pipe Plumbing for Beginners is an essential guide to the world of PEX pipe plumbing for homeowners looking to save money with a DIY plumbing solution. This comprehensive book offers clear and concise advice on everything from the basics of PEX pipe plumbing to the best practices for installation.

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...

A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York’s most iconic spaces. For forty years, Mark Ellison has worked in the most beautiful homes you’ve never seen...

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...

Whether you're a new pool owner or a seasoned pro, maintaining a pool can be a daunting task. But fear not, because this book has got you covered! With its clear and concise language and organized structure, you'll learn everything you need to know to keep your pool in pristine condition.

Build-to-rent (BTR) is a new kind of rental community. These are communities designed for people who prefer to rent housing but want a place that feels more like home. They take the best aspects of single-family rentals and upgrade the experience by developing all homes inside a professionally managed community. With the average sales price for a home across the US at $350,000, a mortgage is out of the reach of most people. BTR developments, which resemble traditional, gated neighborhoods, are currently one of the best options for affordable housing.

Discover the secrets of raised bed gardening and transform your garden into a thriving oasis, no matter your space limitations or terrain challenges. Say goodbye to wasted garden space! Are you frustrated by a lack of grassy space or uneven terrain in your backyard? Raised bed gardening has the solution! Plant your dream garden anywhere – over pavement, on bricks, or even a tiny patio. Unlock the potential of small garden spaces!

Most organizational books on the market profess to have a one-size-fits-all solution to home organization. Common anthems are to: go paperless, get rid of everything that doesn't spark joy, and capsulize your wardrobe. While some find success using these methods, the majority of American women are facing decades of delayed decisions piled high in unmarked boxes and shoved in storage rooms bursting at the seams. Fifteen-minute-a-day organization tips and color coordinated plastic boxes are no match for the memories and clutter contained in those rooms.