The Complete Guide to Bathrooms: Ideas & Projects for Building & Remodeling (Black & Decker) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

Bathrooms are one of the most popular-and expensive- home remodeling projects. Because of the expense, do-it-yourselfers can enjoy enormous savings over the cost of having the work done by contractors. In addition to the quality-of-life benefits offered by a new or remodeled bathroom, a new bath can add substantial equity to the value of a home-in some instances, the entire expense is offset by increased home value. A bathroom is one of the few remodeling projects for which this is tr (more…)

Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2000 Photos (Hardcover)

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Got a problem with grout? Open The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair (to page 98) and watch your tiling worries dissolve before the simple beauty of photography. Black & Decker has anticipated your every question and problem with interior, exterior, and home systems repairs, and detailed the solutions in just over 500 pages. In no other human endeavor is a visual guide so important as home repair (well, maybe brain surgery), so this is a crucial aid to the handyperso (more…)

The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit (Paperback)

ReviewPublishers Weekly – With an endearing mix of down-to-earth practical solutions and funky DIY projects, this book provides readers with much-needed information on how to renovate habits and home to move closer to a zero-carbon existence. The Hrens, respectively a carpenter and a photovoltaic installer living in Durham, N.C., give specific and technical advice, based on their own experience, on how to lower energy use within and outside the house, with 36 projects ranging from sim (more…)

Black & Decker Complete Guide to Finishing Basements: Step-by-step Projects for Adding Living Space without Adding On (Paperback)

ReviewMidwest Book Review “A basement can be as fine a living space as any other area of the house. The Complete Guide to Finishing Basements is a home improvement guide for those who want to turn their utility room basement into a room to be enjoyed by the entire family, or just one person. Basements present their own challenges, such as moisture, lack of heat and light, among other issues, but many ideas are presented to remedy these. With extra advice on morphing one’s basement i (more…)

Smart Guide: Basements: Step-by-Step Projects (Paperback)

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“The Smart Guide series of books by Creative Homeowner are step-by-step projects that are easy to understand, completely illustrated, and provide handy guides to the tools you’ll need and HOW to use them, if you’ve never tried before.”-Bill Ervolino, Sunday RecordHackensack, NJDecember 15, 2002 — Review

Review”The Smart Guide series of books by Creative Homeowner are step-by-step projects that are easy to understand, completely illustrated, and provide handy guides to the (more…)

Black & Decker Complete Home Improvement: with 300 Projects and 2,000 Photos (Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide) [DELUXE EDITION] (Paperback)

This new deluxe edition of the classic Black & Decker« Complete Photo Guide to Home Improvement now includes a durable washable flex cover that makes the book ideal for use on the homeowners work site.With nearly 300 projects, this book is indispensable for DIYers who have moved beyond basic home repair and are ready to tackle projects that make a big difference in quality of life — and in their savings accounts. DIYers who tackle their own major remodeling projects achieve exactly (more…)