House & Garden

Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Home is the definitive compilation of Arts & Crafts architecture, philosophy, and architectural details. Bungalow expert Jane Powell examines a variety of bungalows and Arts & Crafts homes across the U.S. and Canada, exploring and dissecting the best to come up with a book that defines the very nature of the bungalow itself.

From a sleeping porch to a claw footed tub, to hallmark uses of wood, stone, and tile, the insightful text is accompanied by Linda Svendsen's detailed and expressive photography.

With a brief history of the arts & crafts movement included, Powell's latest offering is the perfect gift for bungalow owners, Arts & Crafts enthusiasts, and those looking to restore old or build new. Go deeper into the world of Arts & Crafts, and see exactly what makes a great bungalow design-from interior design to colors, architectural elements to the littlest details.

Jane Powell is the proprietor of House Dressing, a business dedicated to renovating and preserving old homes. She is the former president of the historic preservation organization in her hometown of Oakland, California. Her books include Bungalow Kitchens and Bungalow Bathrooms. Linda Svendsen, a graduate of Music and Art High School and Parsons School of Design in New York, has been a renowned photographer for more than thirty years. Her work is showcased in numerous magazines and books; she is the author of Bicycle: Around the World.

Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in Upstate New York, Cabin Porn began as a scrapbook to collect inspiration for their building projects. As the collection grew, the site attracted a following, which is now a huge and obsessive audience.

The site features photos of the most remarkable handmade homes in the backcountry of America and all over the world. It has had over 10 million unique visitors, with 350,000 followers on Tumblr. Now Zach Klein, the creator of the site (and a co-founder of Vimeo) goes further into the most alluring images from the site and new getaways, including more interior photography and how-to advice for setting up a quiet place somewhere.

With their idyllic settings, unique architecture and cozy interiors, the Cabin Porn photographs are an invitation to slow down, take a deep breath, and feel the beauty and serenity that nature and simple construction can create.

Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in Upstate New York, Cabin Porn began as a scrapbook to collect inspiration for their building projects. As the collection grew, the site attracted a following, which is now a huge and obsessive audience.

The site features photos of the most remarkable handmade homes in the backcountry of America and all over the world. It has had over 10 million unique visitors, with 350,000 followers on Tumblr. Now Zach Klein, the creator of the site (and a co-founder of Vimeo) goes further into the most alluring images from the site and new getaways, including more interior photography and how-to advice for setting up a quiet place somewhere.

With their idyllic settings, unique architecture and cozy interiors, the Cabin Porn photographs are an invitation to slow down, take a deep breath, and feel the beauty and serenity that nature and simple construction can create.

The details can make a room. The bullnose edge of a marble countertop. The wood grain and color of the flooring. The particular pleat of the drape. Amber Lewis, the esteemed designer known for her signature California-inspired style, obsesses over the tiniest of features to create her eclectic, laid-back look. In Call It Home, she shares her secrets to choosing and applying fabric, paint, finishes, tile, flooring, and more for a beautifully designed home, shortcutting the often-overwhelming decision-making process.

Amber walks you through eight new homes she designed--including her own--and the thought processes behind every major choice. Whether you're decorating one room, renovating your entire house, or planning new construction, she shares how to approach a project from start to finish, guiding you on how to find the right team so you can get the perfect results. Then she takes you through mountain retreats and surfside homes, dreamy escapes she's created by pulling inspiration from the surrounding property for a look that's unique to each home. Through personal essays, you'll learn how she set about the project, what challenges her team faced, and the materials she used to achieve the finished result.

With more than 200 gorgeous images of livings rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, entryways, bedrooms, and baths, you'll have photographs of Amber's details on hand when you're ready to create your own collection of stunning spaces--and call it home.

Master the art and science of growing high-quality marijuana for personal and medicinal uses with this comprehensive guide to cannabis horticulture.

Are you tired of wasting money on marijuana that is low-quality and brittle? Are you wary and afraid of winding up dead because you bought fentanyl-laced weed from shady dealers and pharmacists?

Would you like to learn how to grow your own marijuana, but can't seem to get the hang of it?

If this sounds like you, then your search ends here.

In this insightful guide, Joseph Bosner condenses his years of experience with the plant and shows you everything you need to know about growing this useful plant.

With step-by-step instructions, you're going to learn how to pick the right strain, select the right seeds, grow your own mother plant and harvest your cannabis plant.

Here's a small preview of what you're going to discover in this guide:

Even if you've never grown a cannabis plant before, Cannabis: Step-By-Step Guide on How to Grow Marijuana for Beginners will provide you with the tools, techniques and resources you need to turn you into a bonafide green thumb with the ability to produce potent, high-quality buds with consistency.

In Change Your Home, Change Your Life with Color, life stylist and inspirational interior designer Moll Anderson adds the dimension of color to her commonsense design and lifestyle advice, helping you discover the amazing transformation that color can make in your home and life.

Our feelings about color are deeply rooted and emotionally based on our personal lives, and the powerful effect of color is most evident in our homes, where it impacts our moods, behaviors, and emotions. Understanding why you love and dislike certain colors is key to exploring your own personal color story, opening you up to embracing the colors that will renew, revamp, and revitalize your home and life. Just as The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up changed the way we think about the link between organization and joy, Moll introduces a whole new way of thinking about the link between color and mood.

"I became interested in color when I discovered that it was not only a reflection of my mood, but my state of being. I looked around and saw I was living in black and white, and I realized I was hiding. In this book I share the transformational elements of my own journey with color to help you transform your personal color story."- Moll Anderson

Using vibrant, beautiful photographs, Moll highlights a fresh, modern approach to creating colorful spaces. Thirteen colors are featured in individual chapters, and each includes simple color solutions, fabulous "Pop of Color" additions, and Moll's personal color lessons and stories from her designs and life. Guided journal pages will lead you on a journey to explore your own personal connections to color.

Whether it's a touch of color to change the energy of a space, or a canvas of colorful options, there is something for everyone to inspire you to live every day more colorfully.

After 1915, new neighborhoods appeared across the prairie, and the Chicago-style bungalow came to both dominant and symbolize these areas.

The Chicago Bungalow is more than a housing style indigenous to the city-- it epitomizes Chicago's work ethic and is representative of the material rewards of the American Dream chased by hundreds of thousands of immigrants who found themselves in the Midwest in the 20th century. A one and a half story single-family freestanding home, it included such modern conveniences as electricity, indoor plumbing, and central heat. Chicagoans built some 80,000 bungalows while another 20,000 were built in suburban Cook County. Nearly every ethnic and racial group in the area has made its way at one time or another to the Bungalow Belt, and one could even consider it the great equalizer of Chicago. In this book, the Chicago Architecture Foundation interprets both the design and the meaning of these homes, in keeping with CAF's mission to raise awareness of Chicago's rich architectural legacy.

-Directory of the best egg-laying chicken breeds, plus colorful two-page spreads of the 20 most popular choices

-Advice on how to select and set up your flock, including safe and affordable housing, runs, and coops

-Selecting the best diets for your flock to maximize production and avoid egg failure

-Essential information about brooding and laying, the birds' behavior, and solving problems within the flock

-Specially commissioned artwork from watercolorist and illustrator Kate Osborne