iPhone 4S Made Easy is the user-friendly guide to everyone's favourite smartphone. It's rather more than a phone of course - this straightforward book tells you exactly what you need to know: learn how to email, navigate, listen to music, play games, take photos, search the internet, use apps for every conceivable function and much more.
Find the answers to all your DIY questions in this amazingly successful, bestselling volume. "The Reader's Digest DIY Manual" is a byword amongst amateurs and professionals alike for reliable advice and clear instructions on every aspect of home and garden maintenance and improvement. With growing numbers of people turning to DIY to save money, create more living space or increase the value of their homes, this timely update covers all the best current practice for those undertaking work themselves. In addition - and for the first time - a new chapter covers project management, including when to do it yourself and when to call in the professionals, how to apply for planning permission and how to manage building projects large and small. There is also essential up to date information on environmental matters, such as improving your home's energy efficiency, water-saving devices and eco-friendly DIY materials. Finally, a CD-Rom with animated projects complements the comprehensive step-by-step instructions in the book.
For many of us, our home is the center of our life. It is the place where our families meet and mingle, where we share our meals and share our dreams. So much more than just a space to live, our homes offer us a place of comfort, nourishment, and love for us and for our children. In Handmade Home, Amanda Blake Soule, author of The Creative Family and the blog SouleMama.com, offers simple sewing and craft projects for the home that reflect the needs, activities, and personalities of todays families. As Amanda writes in the introduction, ?As a crafter, I?m always looking for the next thing I want to make. As a mama, I?m always looking for the next thing we need?to do, to have, to use?as a family. The coming together of these parts is where the heart of Handmade Home lies.? Filled with thirty-three projects made by reusing and repurposing materials, all of the items here offer a practical use in the home. From picnic blankets made out of repurposed bed sheets to curtains made out of vintage handkerchiefs, these projects express the sense of making something new out of something old as a way to live a more financially pared-down and simple life; lessen our impact on the earth; connect to the past and preserve a more traditional way of life; and place value on the work of the hands. Also included are projects that children can help with, allowing them to make their own special contribution to the family home. More than just a collection of projects for handmade items, this book offers the tools to create a life?and home?full of beauty, integrity, and joy. Projects include: ? Papas Healing Cozy: This hot water bottle cover becomes a simple way to offer comfort to a sick child ? Baby Sling: A simple pattern for an object that offers so much to a small child?refuge from the world and a place to lay their head next to a parents heart ? Beach Blanket To-Go: Repurpose old sheets to create the perfect picnic blanket for special outdoor meals ? Cozy Wall Pockets: A creative solution for storing a childs small treasures
From mountain bikes and road racers to hybrid and leisure bikes, this practical guide shows you how to keep any bike in peak condition. Clear jargon-free advice steers you through a complete maintenance programme. Detailed step-by-step photographs demonstrate how to clean, maintain, and repair your bike.
In today's throwaway culture, it can often seem easier to ditch a broken item rather than attempt to repair it. But this also seems like madness at a time when we're all trying to be thrifty, and at the same time reduce the amount of rubbish we contribute to landfill. In this timely book, Sian Berry sets out to prove that your much-loved table with the wonky leg, wobbly earring or dodgy door handle can be given a new lease of life with a bit of common sense and know-how. With chapters covering furniture, kitchenware, electrical goods, textiles and jewellery, Sian guides you through 400 repair projects, each accompanied by step-by-step illustrations and simple instructions. Even the most DIY-shy person will find this book a revelation.
Few of us can afford to completely revamp our homes. Sarah Moore, 'artisan supreme' (YOU Magazine), inspires you to inject character and charm into your home using expertly selected, unique vintage pieces. From hunting down lovely objects, to updating tired furniture or walls with imaginative projects using vintage materials there are ideas and practical advice for all skill levels. Chapters cover subjects such as beautiful storage solutions, toys and games for children, alongside achievable decorative and showstopping touches. Sarah includes a range of projects from those that can be completed in an evening and require little or no specialist skills to larger scale ideas perfect for a weekend renovation. Sarah Moore knows firsthand how just the smallest of details or additions can make all the difference to a room and in Vintage Home sets out to show how easily they can be achieved, at a fraction of the high street prices.
Whether its sewing clothes, making cheese, or growing a garden, the modern appeal of ?do-it-yourself? projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY our lives than the ?ber-crafty editors of BUST, the quirky, raw, and real magazine ?for women who have something to get off their chests?? In The BUST DIY Guide to Life, magazine founders Debbie Stoller (of Stitch ?n Bitch fame) and Laurie Henzel have culled more than 250 of the best DIY and craft projects from its 15-year history. Organized by category?beauty and health, fashion, food and entertaining, career, finance, travel, and sex?and written in BUSTs trademark brazen and witty style, this quintessential DIY encyclopedia from the quintessential DIY magazine is eclectic, empowering, hilarious, and downright practical, truly capturing the spirit of women today.
How many of us have embarked on a DIY project only to discover half way through that we lack the necessary skills and knowledge to complete the task successfully? Now there is no reason to live with wallpaper you don't like or chipped paintwork. This book will show you how to carry out even the most daunting decorating jobs with ease and confidence, without the need to employ a professional to finish the job. From preparing woodwork to painting panelled doors and using a steam stripper to wallpapering a staircase, The Decorator's DIY Handbook covers every aspect of home decorating. Each task is carefully explained with easy-to-follow instructions and helpful diagrams and the book is packed full of helpful hints, tips and tricks of the trade. This is an essential guide for DIY enthusiasts everywhere.
The latest volume in this hugely successful series reveals all the skills a woodworker needs. From selecting tools to joints and finishing, all the basic techniques of woodworking in this book are illustrated with clear step by step instructions and diagrams. With these thorough directions and some practice you will soon be able to create almost anything from wood. Whether you are a novice or an experienced woodworker, this book will become an indispensable reference source that you will use time and again either to learn a new technique or to remind you of a specific detail.
Professional chefs design their home kitchens for efficiency, comfort, and style. What makes a pro's kitchen work so well? A knowledge of cooking and a signature style. This book features hundreds of design ideas offering readers a glimpse inside the home kitchens of some of America's most renowned chefs. It's a visual feast and a wellspring of design inspiration.-- Features 26 dream kitchens and advice on creating your own.-- Includes more than 300 photographs, floor plans, lists of equipment, and recipes.