Building Your Own Greenhouse (Greenhouse Basics)
 The Least Expensive Way to Get Started: This is simply a magnificent book on how to construct your own hobby greenhouse as well as other gardening structures such as simple cold frames or installing a bay window with a nice ledge in your home. The main [... more]
$19.95
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Building a Healthy Lawn: A Safe and Natural Approach
A fine book for anyone interested in a nice lawn: I was quite starved for information to help me repair drought damage to my front lawn as well as seed a new lawn from scratch in the backyard. I read the book from cover to cover quite quickly and I feel [... more]
$14.95
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Home Tree Home: Principles of Treehouse Construction and ...
detailed information for planning a serious treehouse: This is a book to read before you even decide what type of structure you want to build. This book is not a book of plans or a quick-read instruction manual of how to build tree houses. This is a [... more]
$20.00
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Rustic Retreats: A Build-It-Yourself Guide
Amazon.com Review: This is a delightful book that promises to deliver loads of fantasy and fun for anyone in need of a rustic place to rest, relax, and retreat from the speed and stress of modern living. The Stiles provide more than 20 step-by-step plans [... more]
$19.95
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Sheds: The Do-It-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders
Wow - this is an eye opener for the British: We don't do sheds like these - what a surprise. These are very nice looking outhouses that most carpenters could build. The plans and dimensions are pretty basic but all the construction notes are within the [... more]
$18.95
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The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book)
Amazon.com Review: Get a leg up on the first Little Pig with The Straw Bale House, your guide to inexpensive, durable, earth-friendly construction that will stand up to much more than the Big Bad Wolf. Authors Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen [... more]
$30.00
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Do-It-Yourself Housebuilding: The Complete Handbook
If you buy only one housebuilding book it better be this one!: Comprehensive! I built myself a house and am now happily working in the construction trade. If you are planning on building a stick-built house this book will serve by itself--if you buy [... more]
$24.95
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Log Homes Made Easy: Contracting and Building Your Own ...
Not very good or inspiring: This book is not for anyone who wants to build there own log home. It is clearly written from someone who wants to continually sell log home kits. There is a wonderful book called Home from the Woods that is much better and [... more]
$16.95
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The Well-Built House
Best of its kind: I originally thought the author might have been capitalizing on his fame from being the subject of another book: Tracy Kidder's House. I was surprised to find it more intelligent than the competition. And I was put off by the title, [... more]
$16.00
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Playhouses You Can Build: Indoor and Backyard Designs ...
Good ideas, bad plan: Overall, it's an 0K book - the ideas are good, but the descriptions are lacking. The thing that led me to write this review is to warn potential buyers that the (at least the "traditional playhouse") plans are riddled with [... more]
$14.95
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How to Plan, Subcontract and Build Your Dream House: ...
Great first source: If you want to have a house built, this is a great book to start with. The author is a general contractor who has seen it all and wants to educate readers about the building process. His intention is to prevent others from the [... more]
$39.95
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Everything You Need to Know About Building the Custom ...
Not enough on the building process: This book really went into detail on how to finance, how to choose a site, and a lot of other preparation processes for building a home. What it is severly lacking in is a detailed idea of how to schedule the home [... more]
$15.95
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