Results for "The Cabin" in Home & Garden

A backwoods memoir for anyone who has ever dreamed of escaping to the wild ‘Funny and thoughtful … You feel his desire to be back in the woods, working with his hands. Don’t we all?’ – New York Times We all dream of having a place to escape to – Patrick Hutchison found his at the end...

This program is read by the author. “This is a great audiobook for nature lovers, carpenters, and people who dream of their hobby becoming their day job.”—AudioFile A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly...

You found the land. Now what? Building an A-frame cabin is one of the most rewarding projects a person can take on — but only if you go in knowing what you're doing. The wrong foundation choice. A loft that doesn't work for real people. A floor plan that looks great on paper and feels wrong to live in. These are the mistakes that cost tens of thousands of dollars and years of regret. This book was written to make sure that doesn't happen to you.

Hilarious adventures in home renovations and repairs, from a real-life Red Green. Meet Brian Harris, a (mostly) retired, self-proclaimed jack of all trades with a knack for home improvements and inventive money-saving schemes. Armed with a soldering gun, his trusty 9-foot ladder, and of course...

Choosing a house plan feels exciting — right up until you realize the layout you fell in love with doesn't fit your land, your budget, or the way you actually live.The Right Plan is a practical, no-fluff guide for anyone about to build a house, cabin, tiny home, or container home. Instead of...

A poet at heart, Amy Minato rejects her life of consumption in Chicago to go back to nature - specifically, to a commune in Oregon, where she rediscovers herself. She also cops occasionally to the pretentiousness of her mission, and laughs along with the listener at her attempts to be both environmentally friendly and sane, considering the fact that she’s moved in with a bunch of strangers in a remote locale.

Most small homes don't feel cramped because they're small. They feel cramped because they were never actually designed—just shrunk. Small by Design breaks down the real principles behind small-space layouts that work: how traffic flow shapes a room before a single piece of furniture goes in, how to layer three or four functions into one space without any of them fighting each other, where storage should live before you even think about buying furniture, and why two rooms with identical square footage can feel completely different depending on where the door is hung.

Discover what it’s really like to live and work on the road in a camper van full time from eco-vanlifer and founder of the Diversify Vanlife movement, Noami Grevemberg. Feeling dissatisfied with her office job and her “stationary home,” in 2016 Noami Grevemberg took a bold step. She quit...

This Old House meets #HomeImprovementFails in this collection of laugh-out-loud essays, perfect for fans of Nick Offerman, CarTalk, or The Red Green Show. “This book is all the fix-it you need for your hurt home improvement ego.” —Harrison Scott Key, Thurber-prize winning author of The...