Home & Garden

This do-it-yourself guide gives you the information you need to enhance your property by constructing barns, sheds, and other outbuildings. Select from dozens of ready-to-build plan packages and order readily available construction blueprints, CAD files, cost estimates, and materials lists.

Packed with professional painting and wallpapering advice for the first time DIY-er, this book shows how to carry out even the most daunting projects with ease and confidence, without the need to hire a professional to finish the job.

Cut your energy bills, stop relying on fossil fuels, and reduce your carbon footprint. This book shows how to make sustainable energy work for your home, with practical off-grid options for solar, wind, wood fuel, geothermal, water, gas, and bioenergy.

Learn to think like a design pro to get the bathroom you've always wanted. Completely updated with the latest trends, products, and innovative ideas, this new edition offers a smart approach to bathroom design.

Create useful products out of reclaimed wood from shipping pallets. 20 step-by-step projects include raised garden beds; herb and rail planters; wine, spice and coat racks; book shelves; benches; water barrel stands; small compost bins; and more.

This fun and lighthearted beginner’s guide to gardening de-mystifies the gardening process with sound advice, hints and tips, delicious recipes, and fun weekend projects to help you make the most of your outdoor area, however small.

This guide to creating beautiful gardens with eye-catching annuals covers preparing soil, selecting plants, cultivation, fertilizing, and dealing with garden pests and diseases, illustrated with hundreds of step-by-step color photographs.

This guide to creating beautiful gardens with eye-catching perennials covers designing gardens, improving the soil, planting, fertilizing, and maintaining perennials and bulbs, illustrated with hundreds of step-by-step color photographs.

Build useful and attractive outdoor features to enhance your yard and garden, using stone, brick, wood, or water. 35 DIY projects feature step-by-step instructions and clear color photographs.

This is the ultimate guide to adding the perfect deck—whether doing it yourself or working with a contractor. Choose from 30 designs created by master deck builders, with complete plans, materials lists, and hundreds of step-by-step color photographs.

Bricks are an ideal material for creating stunning, as well as functional garden features. From the decorative to the practical, Brickwork Projects for Patio & Garden offers a range of 16 easy-to-build projects for all levels of expertise.

Making your own bird boxes and feeders is a rewarding and environmentally sound way to enhance any garden by attracting birds. This book offers informed advice on siting, nesting, and feeding, along with 17 practical step-by-step construction projects.

Select from more than 350 1-story home plans from top architects and designers. Complete construction blueprints/CAD files can be ordered for every house shown.

Select from a catalog of more than 360 expertly prepared plans for building small homes under 1,200 square feet. Easy-to-follow construction blueprints and materials lists are available for each project to ensure success.

Build the outdoor structure of your dreams with this essential do-it-yourself guide. Select from a catalog of more than 200 expertly prepared plans for building a wide range of outdoor structures, from storage sheds and pole buildings to playhouses and patio furniture.