[.ca] Best of House & Home Weekend Workshops: 50 Fabulous Projects (ISBN 1552782891)

Amazon.ca:
Hand-made crafts have come a long way from the days of knitted tea cozies and trivets fashioned from popsicle sticks. In 50 Fabulous Projects, the editors of Canadian House & Home magazine offer original interpretations of the stylish items they most covet for their own homes. CH & H editor Cobi Ladner has chosen 50 favourite projects from the magazine into one volume, illustrated with more than 300 colour photographs. Step-by-step instructions fall under the headings Craft, Sewing, Paint, Garden, and Workshop. Skills required range from wielding a paintbrush to being fairly handy with a circular saw, and each project is rated for its level of difficulty. Projects range from the prosaic (build a rustic garden shed from recycled cedar decking) to the decadent (line a bedroom with silk-upholstered walls). When that's finished, wire a ginger jar into a lamp or build sophisticated display shelving. The latter, we are told, "span the width of the wall and are just deep enough to prop a picture or set a small object on. The effect is appealingly modern and art-gallery minimalist, particularly when the rails are painted the same colour as the wall, letting pictures and photographs take centre stage." Such projects are inspired--and designed to be completed over a weekend--without a popsicle stick in sight. --Carolyn Leitch

Not the best:
Didn't find any projects that were really worth creating. There's better out there.