Gardening - On the Inside Looking Out
Think of your window as a picture frame and your garden as a lovely painting that you view from indoors. It's a new way of thinking about garden design. When we celebrated our first spring in this 100+ year old house of ours I was absolutely ... [... more]
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Valerie Wolzien
With a signed contract in hand for remodeling the grandest old house on the island, contractor Josie Pigeon figures her summer is made. But before she can lift a hammer, she finds her new employer-wealthy New Yorker Cornell Hudson-murdered on the ... [... more]
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Frances Hardinge
Frances Hardinge spent her childhood in a huge, isolated old house in a small, strange village, and the two things inspired her to write strange, magical stories from an early age. She studied English at Oxford University and was bullied by a ... [... more]
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Creating a New Old House: Yesterday's Character for ...
 Beautiful houses! I want one!: My husband and I like old houses, and we had been thinking of buying a new Victorian in a subdivision. I say "had," because ever since we bought this book, we feel that the houses we have been considering are [... more]
CDN$54.95
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Old House Measured and Scaled Detail Drawings: for ...
Great book for those doing a serious rebuild on an old home: I bought the book while rebuilding the front porch and columns on my 1904 home. It *is* a lot easier to take something apart if you know how it was put together. And we needed to re-create [... more]
CDN$25.50
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Creating a New Old House: Yesterday's Character for ...
Beautiful houses! I want one!: My husband and I like old houses, and we had been thinking of buying a new Victorian in a subdivision. I say "had," because ever since we bought this book, we feel that the houses we have been considering are [... more]
CDN$30.00
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Renovating Old Houses
Wonderful Reading for the Old House Renovator !: I believe this is the greatest book to read first in any attempt to restore and older home. Most homes relate to the late 1800's, but is revealing even for homes built in the early 1900's. Much detail from [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Restoring Old Houses: Revised And Updated
Old houses, before codes: The houses described in this book are mainly in Ontario, Canada, with a sprinkling from Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and New England. So they're very old houses from the perspective of places further west, say, Manitoba, [... more]
CDN$26.95
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Our Garden in the Netherlands: Ineke and Ruud Both
It is now twenty-five years ago that we and our two children moved from town into the country. The first years there, we spent altering our "Little Old House", and raising the children. The garden belonging to the house, had been initially laid [... more]
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Pip: The Story of Olive
A story about fitting in and finding the strength to be yourself. Olive is an only child. She lives by the sea in a ramshackle old house with her mother, Mog-successful, busy, and hardly ever at home. Olive is very pale and very quiet and she ... [... more]
Random House |
A LADY GARDENER
Kitty Henry, a gardener and florist of outstanding talent loved the deep red roses and lilies that flourished in her wild and beautiful garden Kitty Henry lived in an old house in Sandy Bay, Hobart The house, "Ellington", situated in the " [... more]
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A Brief History of Daffodils
Historic Daffodils are not only from out past, but are living and providing beauty in our gardens today. This spring I attended an Heirloom Gardening presentation in Annapolis, Maryland by Scott Knust owner of "Old House Gardens," Ann Arbor, ... [... more]
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