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Home, Garden, and DIY November 2018
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One-day room makeovers: How to get the designer look for less with three easy steps by Martin AmadoThe ultimate guide to creating a gorgeous home that reflects your best, most beautiful self. Design expert and "makeover maestro" Martin Amado reveals the 3-step method he uses to create dramatic room makeovers for his clients in only one day. From walls to furniture to accessories, learn how to decorate rooms of any style in layers like a professional designer. Overflowing with stunning colour photographs and illustrations, savvy design advice and DIY decor projects, this book makes it easy to give your home the designer look for less!
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Less: A visual guide to minimalism by Rachel AustThis visual guide to embracing a minimalist lifestyle helps readers discover that less is really more through decision trees, flow charts and other graphics that help scale back possessions and keep only the essentials.
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Kiwi baker at home by Dean BrettschneiderInternationally recognised as one of the world's best bakers, New Zealander Dean Brettschneider defines his baking style as a globally inspired mix of tradition and innovation. In Kiwi Baker at Home, he shares an irresistible collection of his favourite recipes for you to bake at home. In this new book you'll find easy, casual recipes to cater for every baking occasion - from weekend breakfasts and brunches, sourdough breads and pizzas, to morning teas, lunchbox treats and decadent desserts.
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Beyond the garden gate: Private gardens of the Southern Highlands by Jaqui CameronThe Southern Highlands of New South Wales is an area renowned for its seasonal beauty and extravagant estates. Behind the hedges and over the fences are grand mature trees, collections of sculptures, treehouses, lakes, walled vegetable gardens, tiered herbaceous borders. Throughout it all is an enveloping sense of community in this magical part of the world. This book reveals not just the hidden gems but also the very personal story behind each garden.
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Features beautiful rooms and remarkable gardens in city and country settings with architectural details every cottage dweller loves and appreciates. From weekend getaways to urban chic, these cottages; new and redo, showcase style that makes home a place of pampering and sharing family dreams.
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The generous gardener: Private paradises shared by Caroline DonaldGardening is an art form through which we can all express ourselves. As gardening editor of The Sunday Times, Caroline Donald has been allowed beyond the gate of many a private paradise to share this passion. Included in The Generous Gardener are the stories, in words and pictures, of more than forty private gardens, including those belonging to Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton, Jilly Cooper, William Christie, Harrison Birtwistle, Kelly Brook, Natasha Spender, Catherine FitzGerald and Dominic West, Julian and Isabel Bannerman, Penelope Hobhouse, Bob Flowerdew, Roy Lancaster, Luciano Giubbilei, and Dan Pearson.
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Bathrooms: The smart approach to design by Creative HomeownerA bathroom renovation and design book with more than 300 photos and illustrations covers budgeting, hiring contractors; selecting cabinetry, fixtures and hardware; choosing countertops, flooring, windows and other finishing materials; and much more.
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Repurposed: New Zealand homes using upcycled materials and spaces by Catherine FosterThe book features 20 homes located throughout the country that feature a variety of clever solutions and design styles. There is everything from repurposed container homes to army barracks, farm utility buildings, churches and urban spaces finished with upcycled and repurposed furnishings"
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Dior and his decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look by Maureen FooterThe first work on the two interior designers most closely associated with Christian Dior. Like the unabashedly luxurious fashions of Dior's New Look, which debuted in 1947, the interior designs of Victor Grandpierre and Georges Geffroy infused a war-weary world with a sumptuous new aesthetic-a melding of the refined traditions of the past with a wholly modern sense of elegance. Author Maureen Footer recounts the lives and work of this influential trio, illustrated with a trove of evocative vintage photographs.
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Always delicious: Favourite recipes from the New Zealand Listener by Lauraine JacobsLauraine Jacobs is one of New Zealand's leading food writers, best known for her work with Cuisine and for her long-running food column in the New Zealand Listener. This is a compilation of over 100 of her favourite recipes, chosen from at least 700 recipes that have featured in her column. These are the recipes that best show off her belief that food that should be consistently delicious to eat, simple to make, and which highlights the best of our seasonal fresh ingredients.
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French vintage décor: Easy & elegant DIY projects for any home by Jamie LundstromJamie Lundstrom's classic French style is effortless to achieve with 60 projects, most of which come from her beautiful home and can easily be created in just a few hours on the weekend. Readers will delight in the ease and finesse of the traditional French shapes and patterns (think fleur de lis and damask print), graceful typefaces and the bold yet refined colour palette, all while utilising found and recycled objects.
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The alchemy of things: Interiors shaped by curious minds by Karen MccartneyThe book details a series of eighteen fascinating homes that come from a truly creative place, transcending conventional notions of collection and display. This new beauty taps into a craving for a personal space with rich layers, a little bit of oddity and an irrepressible joie de vivre. A mix of artists, interior designers, architects, collectors, gallerists, stylists, furniture designers and vintage retailers open the doors to their own homes; many for the first time.
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Jenny Mustard has created a unique lifestyle book that taps into the ever-increasing human longing for less clutter and more meaning, be it at home, at work, or in our relationships. By encouraging readers to make their surroundings a little more lovely, to simplify eating habits and wardrobe, to travel with purpose and ease, and to discover what they truly want to dream about and focus on, Jenny provides the inspiration to curate one's everyday life into something simple, realistic, and utterly enjoyable.
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The natural home: Tips, ideas & recipes for a sustainable life by Wendyl NissenIn The Natural Home Wendyl shares how easy it is to lead a much healthier life just by making some small changes and remembering the simple way that people used to live. Combining the best information from Wendyl's previous books, including natural recipes for anything from cleaning your toilet to making your own bread, this is excellent advice on how to garden, create healthy food, and make natural cleaning and beauty products.
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A unique resource for students, professionals, and the design- obsessed, that reveals how the iconic chairs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been designed for mass production. Through the painstaking work of deconstructing and reducing chairs to their constituent parts, Chair Anatomy gets to the heart of more than fifty iconic designs: how pieces were designed and produced to fit together; why a certain material imparts a certain quality, functional advance, or comfort level; how the chair’s structure can withstand stress while being elegant and economical to produce.
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The definitive interior design guide from renowned designer, Orly Robinzon. This stunning book showcases inspiring images of the room schemes of some of her latest projects. Robinzon shares her inspirational tips and advice to help you with your next home-decorating project, however big or small in scale, to ensure it is functional, beautifully designed, and provides an interior that blends seamlessly with any landscape or outdoor environment, and which suits the way you live.
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Better than a bought one: Clever recipes and ideas for home-grown celebrations by Jo SeagarJo shows ordinary Kiwis how they can put on great celebration events with minimum effort and maximum effect. From a baby shower to a 21st, an office shout to a winter dinner party, from a high tea to a wedding, Jo gives great recipes and tips so you can celebrate in style, without breaking the bank. There's even a chapter on holding a winter bonfire party for Matariki, and no celebrations book would be complete without Christmas - but this one is a Kiwi Christmas at the beach!
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Starting & saving seeds: Grow the perfect vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers for your garden by Julie Thompson-AdolfIn this book you'll find: Extensive plant entries that cover all the most popular vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers; Tips and hints, such as how to encourage stubborn seeds to germinate; Lists to help you find the best plants to add to your garden, whether you want heirloom tomatoes for hot, humid climates or a rainbow of eggplants; Simple DIY projects to aid your seed-starting and -saving adventure.
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Eco home: Smart ideas for sustainable New Zealand homes
by Melinda Williams
Everything you need to know to build, renovate or just live in an eco-friendly and sustainable way. With loads of inspirational photographs of New Zealand homes, this book is packed full of practical and accessible information. It presents the modern home by moving from room to room, to look at structural materials, furnishings and general life hacks to improve your personal green-star rating. As well as the living spaces (kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, office, living area, utility rooms and outdoor areas) it also looks at the wider issues - why make an eco home at all? Also covered are: principles of sustainable building, choosing a property, building a team of professionals, foundations and floors, the structure and the shell.
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Fast, efficient, and effective, Japanese handplanes are attracting increasing notice among Western cabinetmakers, carpenters, and woodworkers. These tools are meant to be used, used hard, and produce rapid, excellent results. Author and woodworking instructor Scott Wynn shows you how to choose, set up, maintain, and use these versatile tools to achieve stunning results.
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Garden problem solver by YatesNew Zealand's go-to garden guide for pest and disease solutions This bestselling book has been updated to include the latest available practical remedies for your garden, including natural and organic pest and disease solutions. Covering a wide variety of common problems affecting flowers, fruit, vegetables, shrubs, trees and lawns,
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