Review of Herbal Home Hints (Rodale's Essential Herbal Handbooks) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

Louise Gruenberg's Herbal Home Hints is incredibly useful and well written. Her formulas are wonderful tools for cleaning naturally with herbs. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in herbalism and natural cleaning and home beautification ideas.

Product Description
From polishing furniture with lemon balm to repelling moths with tansy sachets, this guide offers natural, herbal solutions for dozens of common household cleaning, laundering, and decorating dilemmas.It begins with an illustrated list of essential cleaning herbs covering everything from the qualities and useable parts of each herb to the herbal household formulas you can create.It moves on to a detailed gardening section with information on planting and cultivating herbs.Then, learn the basic methods, essential nonherbal ingredients, standard equipment, and essential oils needed to make your own cleaning products.A resource list of herbal product suppliers and a fabulous room-by-room herbal cleaning solutions chart make this a practical and environment-friendly resource.

About the Author
Louise Gruenberg, a member of the American Herbalists Guild and the American Herb Association, is the author of Potpourri: The Art of Fragrance Crafting (Frontier Cooperative Herbs) and many articles for The Herb CompanionShe lives n Oak Park, Illinois.

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Review of John Deere 52 Backyard Landscaping Projects: Designing, Planting, and Building the Yard of Your Dreams One Weekend at a Time (Paperback)

I love this book. A little of everything if you're looking for new ideas...even if you have an idea on what you want to do, i'm sure you'll find a cool way to do it in this book. Has a lot of pictures or diagrams. Easy reading and colorful.

Product Description
The second in a series of John Deere books published by Quayside, John Deere 52 Backyard Landscaping Projects is the perfect companion and follow-up to John Deere Landscaping and Lawn Care. Once homeowners have a handle on what they need to do to their yard and when the need to do it in order to keep their lawn and landscape green and healthy, they will want to learn how to improve upon it.John Deere 52 Backyard Landscaping Projects provides simple projects that are relevant to today's homeowners. While most books cover, design, building, planting with an extensive gardening section devoted to plant care, types, etc. this book is unique in that it offers simple weekend landscaping projects and it carried the John Deere stamp of approval.

• Easy to follow step-by-step instructions
• All projects can be completed in a weekend's time

About the Author
Kristen Hampshire is an award-winning writer. Her work has been published in a wide range of nationally recognized magazines. She has also served as an editor for two green industry publications, Commercial Dealer and Bayer Environmental ScienceÆs Lawn Care Professional. Her most recent book is John DeereÆs Landscaping and Lawn Care.

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Review of How to Increase the Value of Your Home: Simple, Budget-Conscious Techniques and Ideas That Will Make Your Home Worth Up to $100,000 More! (Paperback)

I'm preparing to sell my house and this book is exactly what I wanted to help me figure out what I needed to do, what I could do, and what I shouldn't bother with. On top of it's rather useful information, it's highly readable. I was afraid it would be overly wordy or bogged down with real estate-y stuff, but it's an easy read for your casual non-DIYer home seller. I wouldn't recommend that you use this as your reference on your first flip or anything, but if you want to sell your house and prepare it as well as possible first, this book suits.

Product Description
The guide to maximizing the value of your most valuable asset

Millions of Americans are investing in home improvements, hoping to increase the long-term value of their most valuable asset. But do you know which home improvements will make your home's value jump, and those that won't? This practical guide covers all of the topics every homeowner must consider before getting started--improvements that add the most value, which should be undertaken first, and how to do it right from the very start. From remodeling the kitchen to landscaping the front yard and everything in between, you'll learn which improvements you should undertake, and which are a waste of your time and money.

How to Improve the Value of Your Home will help you get the most bang for your home-improvement buck--with handy tips on lowering the cost of home maintenance and home improvement projects. If you aren't sure whether now is the right time to remodel, a simple quiz helps you to determine what you can afford to do and what to expect as a long-term payoff.

And there's more:

*Calculate the cost versus the value of improvements
*What homework you need to do before tackling additions
*How to find the resources and information you need
*Where to find the right contractor to do the work
*How to set a home-improvement budget
*Ways to improve home energy efficiency
*Tips on saving on home insurance
*Simple ways to create curb appeal

Vicki Lankarge is a consumer writer and expert in protecting and improving the value of homes. Her works appears on aol.com, CBS Marketwatch, and MSN.com.

Daniel J. Nahorney is a home improvement weekend warrior, a journalist, business writer, and magazine editor.

From the Back Cover

The guide to maximizing the value of your most valuable asset

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Millions of Americans are investing in home improvements, hoping to increase the long-term value of their most valuable asset. But do you know which home improvements will make your home's value jump, and those that won't? This practical guide covers all of the topics every homeowner must consider before getting started--improvements that add the most value, which should be undertaken first, and how to do it right from the very start. From remodeling the kitchen to landscaping the front yard and everything in between, you'll learn which improvements you should undertake, and which are a waste of your time and money.

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How to Improve the Value of Your Home will help you get the most bang for your home-improvement buck--with handy tips on lowering the cost of home maintenance and home improvement projects. If you aren't sure whether now is the right time to remodel, a simple quiz helps you to determine what you can afford to do and what to expect as a long-term payoff.

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And there's more:

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• Calculate the cost versus the value of improvements .
• What homework you need to do before tackling additions .
• How to find the resources and information you need .
• Where to find the right contractor to do the work .
• How to set a home-improvement budget .
• Ways to improve home energy efficiency .
• Tips on saving on home insurance .
• Simple ways to create curb appeal .

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