Remodeling category: 376 books
Selecting and Renovating an Old House
A Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Clear, thoughtfully written manual tells how to appraise worthiness of an older home, develop plans for remodeling the kitchen, adding a bath, replacing floors, roof, windows, doors, interior walls, kitchen cabinets, and much more. Full glossary of housing terms and 157 illustrations clarify an extremely detailed text.
by Tom Meehan, Lane Meehan
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The latest techniques for the latest technology. Advances in technology have brought many new installation products and tools to the world of tiling in recent years, including waterproofing membranes, backerboards, grouts, and cutting tools. That’s why DIYers will welcome the thoroughly updated,...
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Room Additions
Designing & Building *Garage Conversions *Attic Add-ons *Bath & Kitchen Expansions *Bump-out Additio
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Building a major addition to your house can take over your life or drain your bank account if you aren’t fully prepared with top-notch information. The Complete Guide to Room Additions is both an insurance policy for dealing with contractors and a planning guide that arms homeowners with vital information...
Find It, Fix It, Flip It!
Make Millions in Real Estate--One House at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
“Shows us how to turn passion into profit."—Tony Robbins, bestselling author of Awaken the Giant Within
Michael Corbett—host of Extra’s Mansions and Millionaires—shares his strategies, tips, and never-before-revealed insider techniques that have helped him make a fortune in...
by Jerry Norton
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
If done correctly and with the right system, flipping houses should be a million dollar a year business. After doing hundreds of deals, the nation's most highly sought after expert reveals his exact system to find, analyze, renovate and sell houses earning 25,000 (or more) per deal. From construction...
Homebody
A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well as a range of other homes, this comprehensive guide will help...
by Trevor Yorke
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Arts & Crafts movement began as an instinctive reaction to the new Industrial Age. Seeking a return to simple craftsmanship, with traditional materials, its influence spread both to Europe and North America, where the term 'craftsman' denoted a traditional style of architecture and interior...
by Lynnette Hartwig
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Thinking about adding on? Renovating? New kitchen? Dormer? Peek behind the curtain of the construction industry. If you're a landlord, house flipper, or property manager, this book is even more valuable.
The six chapters here are a few select excerpts from the book "Contractor Heaven" which...
Lou Manfredini's House Smarts
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Buying, Maintaining, and Living Comfortably in Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Lou Manfredini, aka Mr. Fix-It, is the trusted friend every homeowner wishes he or she had—someone who knows houses. In his fun, friendly, fully illustrated guide for both inexperienced and seasoned homeowners, he takes you through your entire house and around the yard, showing you how it all works...
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Ceramic Tile, Third Edition: Includes Stone, Porcelain, Glass Tile & More
Includes Stone, Porcelain, Glass Tile & More
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Complete DIY tile installation instructions with over 350 how-to, step-by-step photos; tool and material selection guides with full-color photography; design inspiration; the most up-to-date tile products and projects, such as recycled glass tile and other environmentally friendly and sustainable...
Black & Decker Advanced Home Wiring: Updated 3rd Edition * DC Circuits * Transfer Switches * Panel Upgrades
Updated 3rd Edition * DC Circuits * Transfer Switches * Panel Upgrades
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Current with Codes through 2014
A carefully selected group of home wiring projects that goes beyond the basics of adding a receptacle or rewiring a lamp. With the information in this book you can take your skill in working with electrical systems to a new level. Projects include:...
Homesteading The Easy Way Including Prepping And Self Sufficency: 3 Books In 1 Boxed Set
3 Books In 1 Boxed Set
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
There is a growing community of people who are turning to homesteading. The allure of homesteading can be obvious: it allows you to stay home more, be more self-sufficient, and slow down to enjoy "the simple life." Some of the benefits may be more subtle. For example, you have a better diet...
Black & Decker Working with Drywall: Hanging & Finishing Drywall the Professional Way
Hanging & Finishing Drywall the Professional Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Hanging and finishing drywall is quite possibly the one job that do-it-yourselfers dislike the most. It's messy, it's tedious and even small imperfections appear glaring when the walls and ceilings are painted. Working with Drywall gives a fresh perspective on this maligned but essential task. It...
Where the Road Ends
A Home in the Brazilian Rainforest
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The colorful story of one couple's journey across the world to build their dream home in the heart of the Amazon
In 1989, as their mid-life crises approached, concert pianist Binka Le Breton and her husband Robin, an agricultural economist, decided to uproot themselves from their home in Washington,...