Random House New Releases - House and Home - Gardening - Between November 28, 2008 and December 28, 2009.

How to Sew a Button by Erin Bried

2009-12-15T00:30:00-05:00

How to Sew a Button And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew
Written by Erin Bried

“Waste not, want not” with this guide to saving money, taking heart, and enjoying the simple pleasures of life.

Nowadays, many of us “outsource” basic tasks. Food is instant, ready-made, and processed with unhealthy additives. Dry cleaners press shirts, delivery guys bring pizza, gardeners tend flowers, and, yes, tailors sew on those pesky buttons. But life can be much simpler, sweeter, and richer–and a lot more fun, too! As your grandmother might say, now is not the time to be careless with your money, and it actually pays to learn how to do things yourself!

Practical and empowering, How to Sew a Button collects the treasured wisdom of nanas, bubbies, and grandmas from all across the country–as well as modern-day experts–and shares more than one hundred step-by-step essential tips for cooking, cleaning, gardening, and entertaining, including how to

• polish your image by shining your own shoes
• grow your own vegetables (and stash your bounty for the winter)
• sweeten your day by making your own jam
• use baking soda and vinegar to clean your house without toxic chemicals
• feel beautiful by perfecting your posture
• roll your own piecrust and find a slice of heaven
• fold a fitted sheet to crisp perfection
• waltz without stepping on any toes

Complete with helpful illustrations and brimming with nostalgic charm, How to Sew a Button provides calm and comfort in uncertain times. By doing things yourself, with care and attention, you and your loved ones will feel the pleasing rewards of a job well done.

How to Sew a Button by Erin Bried

2009-12-15T00:30:00-05:00

How to Sew a Button And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew
Written by Erin Bried

Majestic Metropolitan Living by Sue Hostetler

2009-11-10T00:30:00-05:00

Majestic Metropolitan Living Visionary Homes in the Heart of Cities
Written by Sue Hostetler

Forget the sprawling suburban mansion with tennis court and swimming pool–from New York to Los Angeles, Miami to Chicago, the visionary home owners featured within these pages have created legendary, livable residences right in the heart of the city.

From an artist’s warren of studios in New York City–crowned by a magnificent rooftop garden draped with wisteria arbors–to a 16,000-square-foot château in Chicago with a master bedroom created from a former ballroom, these spaces are truly spectacular. They are also warm, friendly, and original. In short, they are real-life homes–but with many more rooms and amenities than most urban dwellings.

Majestic Metropolitan Living offers a tour through these unique and beautifully designed interiors. Their visionary owners have reinvented the original spaces, combining apartments or turning former warehouses and other nonresidential buildings into comfortable family homes. They include:

• A bright, breezy French-country-style family home in a former Russian embassy that offers views of the San Francisco skyline and an indoor basketball court for the children
• A tony penthouse apartment in Miami with more than 4,000 square feet of terrace space and a pool 500 feet in the sky
• A former hat factory in downtown Manhattan, now a space-age family home where the three children hold rock-band practice

Decorated by some of the top designers and architects today, from Thomas O’Brien to David Easton, Matt Baird to Daniel Romualdez, and with artistic owners like Loree Rodkin, Denise Rich, and Izhar Patkin, these spaces brim with ideas that can be translated for interiors of any size. Majestic Metropolitan Living is a visual feast for anyone who has ever dreamed of creating an inventive, beautiful, and personal oasis in the city.

The Peaceful Nursery by Laura Forbes Carlin

2009-11-04T00:30:00-05:00

The Peaceful Nursery Preparing A Home For Your Baby With Feng Shui
Written by Alison Forbes and Laura Forbes Carlin

As a new parent, the nursery is the most important room in your home, and designing this special space is also an opportunity to prepare, mentally and physically, for the changes to come. In The Peaceful Nursery, home and lifestyle experts Laura Forbes Carlin and Alison Forbes show you how to apply the best principles of home decorating, Feng Shui, and healthy living (as well as their own parenting experience!) to create a warm and welcoming environment for your new baby.

Also included: 12 Steps to Clearing Clutter…Tips for storage and organization…Colors that soothe… Arranging parent bedrooms…and much, much more!

Featuring dozens of color photographs and helpful diagrams, plus a Quick Tips section at the end of each chapter, The Peaceful Nursery: Preparing a Home for Your Baby with Feng Shui is the ultimate guide to creating beautiful and nurturing surroundings for you and your baby.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

A Clearing in the Woods by Roger Foley

2009-11-03T00:30:00-05:00

A Clearing in the Woods Creating Contemporary Gardens
Photographed by Roger Foley

In A Clearing in the Woods, landscape photographer Roger Foley brings luxuriant green spaces, quiet water features, and colorful plantings to life. Over the past thirty years, he has collaborated with many noted landscape designers and architects, many of whom have transformed the profession with radical experimentation and diverse ideas to create a contemporary approach to garden design.

A Clearing in the Woods presents twenty-six gardens across the United States: seaside and mountain, desert and countryside, urban and rural. Foley's exquisite photographs illuminate the work of such designers as Raymond Jungles, Edwina von Gal, Charles Stick, and Oehme, van Sweden & Associates. This remarkable blend of designers and projects—with styles ranging from classically composed geometric gardens to eclectic modern green spaces—represents the diversity of contemporary landscape design. Descriptions of each garden complement the visual presentation, highlighting sources of inspiration and design intent.

P. Allen Smith's Container Gardens Deck by P. Allen Smith

2009-11-03T00:30:00-05:00

P. Allen Smith's Container Gardens Deck 50 Recipes for Year-Round Gardening
Written by P. Allen Smith

Add beauty to your home (no matter how much space you have) with these easy-to-follow container garden recipes from P. Allen Smith. Each card includes a list of plants, step-by-step planning instructions, and a diagram showing you how to design your garden. These recipes are printed on tabbed cards that you can bring to your gardening center or nursery.

The Comfortable Home by Bob Williams

2009-10-27T00:30:00-05:00

The Comfortable Home How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well for Less
Written by Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams

Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams know that the key to comfort is how you set up your home.

For two decades, their home furnishings have been synonymous with relaxed style. For them, comfort and beauty work in concert; they are never opposing ideals. Gold and Williams's elegant collection of home furnishings is often the first—and last—place people go when they want pieces that are perfect in scale, comfort, and price.

In The Comfortable Home, Gold and Williams share their insights, experience, and practical knowledge so that you can make your home one that is both designed—and designed for living. With a focus on spending money wisely—investing in pieces you will have forever and making strong statements with affordable "pretty little things," Gold and Williams cover all aspects of creating a beautiful, inviting living space, including:

·        Working with color
·        Deciding whether to hire a decorator (or not)
·        Furnishing small spaces
·        Finding inspiration in the world around you
·        Creating flow from room to room
·        And much, much more

Taking the reader throughout the home—from the entryway into the bedroom, dining room, and all the living spaces—The Comfortable Home is apropos, whether your style is modern, traditional, or something in between. There is plenty of advice on everything, from choosing the perfect bedside table to displaying a beloved collection to deciding where to splurge and where to hold back.

Throughout, sumptuous original photography provides inspirational tours of real homes—including Gold and Williams's New York City apartment as well as a revitalized ranch, country cottage, and Federal-style home in the city.

Whether you are starting from scratch or looking for a smart way to update a room with a few new pieces of furniture, The Comfortable Home reveals how rooms with different functions can merge into a perfect whole that is inviting and recharging.

Living with Wine by Alice Feiring

2009-10-27T00:30:00-05:00

Living with Wine Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing
Written by Samantha Nestor and Alice Feiring

America’s love of wine has spurred a collecting and entertaining phenomenon.

Some of America’s most passionate oenophiles have re-invented the wine cellar as an inviting and beautiful part of the home.

True collectors love to share their passion, and this book offers a tour of their distinctive cellars. Created with the help of some of the best designers in the field, these rooms blend luxurious design aesthetics with ingenious storage solutions. The thirty stunning spaces featured include a traditional wood cellar finished with rich paneling and ornate lighting; a cathedral-like space that showcases ironwork inspired by the French Quarter of New Orleans (and has a secret entry from a library inside the house); an inviting living room lined with temperature-controlled wood alcoves behind insulated glass; and an Old World terra-cotta cellar–within a sprawling entertainment center that includes a wet bar, a billiards table, and a tasting room.

Living with Wine reveals the details that make the cellars a welcoming place to return–from the materials, artwork, lighting, and cutting-edge preservation technology to the way the space harmonizes with the rest of the house. From the Bay Area to Boston, Napa to New York, homeowners such as Nancy and John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar Studios; American Idol host and TV and radio personality Ryan Seacrest; and entrepreneur Rick Ryan share insights into what they collect, why they started collecting, and how they designed their spaces to fit their passion.

This elegant volume shows what it means to love and collect wine.

Flora Mirabilis by Douglas Holland

2009-10-20T00:30:00-05:00

Flora Mirabilis How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty
Written by Catherine H. Howell
Foreword by Peter H. Raven
Introduction by Douglas Holland

Flora Mirabilis is a sumptuously designed showcase of superb illustrations paired with fascinating stories of botanical exploration and trade through the ages. A collaboration between National Geographic and the world-renowned Missouri Botanical Garden, this book will prove an evergreen source of delight, not just for gardeners and flower aficionados, but for anyone interested in the plant world, human civilization, and their intertwined histories.

From prehistory to the present day, Flora Mirabilis blossoms with legend and lore as it culls the most engrossing mysteries and adventures of plant exploration, science, and discovery and garlands them with astonishingly beautiful illustrations. These lavish pages are abloom with the rich details and engaging allure of beloved flowers, stunning gardens, ancient trees, medicinal herbs, and valuable plants of all varieties from around the world. Unique "plant profiles" chronicle the especially remarkable roles each plant has played in matters of economics, politics, and taste.

Illustrated throughout with never-before-published collector’s edition reproductions and introduced with an eloquent foreword by Peter H. Raven, president of the Missouri Botanical Garden, this stunning volume will catch eyes and flower in imaginations everywhere.

The Cleaning Encyclopedia by Don Aslett

2009-10-14T00:30:00-05:00

The Cleaning Encyclopedia
Written by Don Aslett

The Well-Dressed Home by Annette Tatum

2009-09-29T00:30:00-05:00

The Well-Dressed Home Fashionable Design Inspired by Your Personal Style
Written by Annette Tatum

Create a personalized living space that reflects your fashion and style sensibilities with the help of interior designer Annette Tatum in The Well-Dressed Home. Founder of the popular and successful House and Little House lines of high-end apparel, accessories, bedding, and furniture, Tatum reveals how to draw inspiration from the fashion world, pop culture, and especially your own closet to create stunning, one-of-a-kind room designs.

Personality is key when developing your wardrobe, and the same is true when creating a unique decorating scheme for your home. The Well-Dressed Home will guide you in identifying your personal fashion style and then inspire you to use the same creative influences to design your home decor. Tatum reveals eleven of the most universal fashion styles, including romantic, couture, classic, casual, bohemian, retro, and modern, and encourages you to use the colors, fabrics, textures, and patterns characteristic of these aesthetics to decorate your home.

From an eco-bohemian chic loft in New York City to a home in the Hollywood Hills filled with vintage-romantic flea market finds, these enviable rooms will show you how to style your home to reflect your eye for fashion. Tatum understands style contradictions, too, and shows how to express them boldly and beautifully. By layering your inspirations, you can create a space that reflects your style and the styles of those with whom you share your home.

Illustrated with more than two hundred lush, full-color photographs, The Well-Dressed Home is the perfect resource for fashion enthusiasts looking to infuse a sense of their personal style into their homes.

Garden Gnomes by Twigs Way

2009-09-22T00:30:00-05:00

Garden Gnomes A History
Written by Twigs Way

This is the intriguing story of garden gnomes and how they have come to reside in the flowerbeds of gardens across Britain. Originating in Europe, gnomes made the leap across the channel in the nineteenth century, where they were welcomed warmly by wealthy Brits who saw them as the must-have garden accessory. But the fortunes of the humble gnome were not to last, and they soon found themselves sneered at by serious gardeners. Turned away from fashionable gardens, the little gnomes found a friend in many a working class gardener, who adopted them in increasing numbers, and in a variety of humorous poses. Today, gnomes are as popular with the masses as ever, and this entertaining illustrated history will appeal to those who love, and hate, these small bearded characters.

Ed Begley, Jr.'s Guide to Sustainable Living by Ed Begley, Jr.

2009-08-25T00:30:00-05:00

Ed Begley, Jr.'s Guide to Sustainable Living Learning to Conserve Resources and Manage an Eco-Conscious Life
Written by Ed Begley, Jr.

From the environmental activist Newsweek called the "star of climate change" comes the ultimate guide to living green for those ready to take their eco-efforts up a notch.

Ed Begley, Jr.’s Guide to Sustainable Living lays out a detailed road map culled from Ed’s thirty-nine years of green living. For the first time ever, a comprehensive plan is provided, from effective conservation techniques to producing your own energy.

Starting with the energy audit, Ed shows us how to create a game plan for resource conservation in the home. Then, once an adequate baseline of resource use is achieved, he leads us into more in-depth eco-matters, such as the production of alternative energy, and how to use solar and wind energy and a geothermal pump. As Ed’s guide continues, the focus then turns to sustainable lifestyle management choices, such as home gardening, and guidelines on creating a green nursery for your children. This book covers it all–small to large–in plain language and in a progression from resource conservation to energy production and lifestyle management that makes both environmental and fiscal sense.

There’s something here for everyone–new and experienced environmentalists alike–and Ed walks you through every step of the way with helpful sidebars that outline costs and paybacks, as well as essays detailing his experiences of completing these eco-projects on his own home.

Discovering Period Gardens by John Anthony

2009-07-21T00:30:00-05:00

Discovering Period Gardens
Written by John Anthony

This book is a fascinating survey of the development of gardens in Great Britain from their medieval origins in monasteries and castles, through the Tudor period and the seventeenth century when formal designs from France and Holland were prevalent, to the great age of English landscape gardens in the eighteenth century, produced by such landscape designers as Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. John Anthony goes on to explore the variety of gardens of Victorian Britain and how they have evolved into those of the present day. With advice on creating and restoring period gardens, and comprehensive listings of the diverse range of plants of each period, this is an ideal introduction to the evolution of period gardens, and the features and plants that defined the distinct periods in history.

Heirloom by Tim Stark

2009-07-14T00:30:00-05:00

Heirloom Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
Written by Tim Stark

Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life.

Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a management consultant, and writing unpublished short stories by night. One evening, chancing upon a Dumpster full of discarded lumber, he carried the lumber home and built a germination rack for thousands of heirloom tomato seedlings. His crop soon outgrew the brownstone in which it had sprouted, forcing him to cart the seedlings to his family’s farm in Pennsylvania, where they were transplanted into the ground by hand. When favorable weather brought in a bumper crop, Tim hauled his unusual tomatoes to New York City’s Union Square Greenmarket, at a time when the tomato was unanimously red. The rest is history. Today, Eckerton Hill Farm does a booming trade in heirloom tomatoes and obscure chile peppers. Tim’s tomatoes are featured on the menus of New York City’s most demanding chefs and have even made the cover of Gourmet magazine.

Italian Gardens by Charles Latham

2009-07-07T00:30:00-05:00

Italian Gardens Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian Age
Written by Helena Attlee
Photographed by Charles Latham

For centuries, the cardinals, popes, and rulers of Italy have devoted themselves to creating vast villa gardens that represent their wealth and power, provide a calm refuge from city life, and showcase lavish plantings and rare flowers. Here, in over two hundred exquisite photographs—taken during the Edwardian era when these historic gardens were at their peak—twenty-two of central Italy's most ornate and spectacular palace gardens are presented.

Italian Gardens reveals the vanished magnificence of the aristocracy's landscapes in superb images from the archives of Britain's renowned Country Life magazine. Classic photographs of unrivaled beauty and composition display patterned grottoes, elaborate terraces, sophisticated fountains, antique statuary, and sun-dappled arbors to provide an important record of these gardens at a nostalgic moment in time, before the two World Wars provoked irrevocable changes in Italy's political and economic climate and many gardens fell into neglect. These vivid images dating from the early 1900s possess a quality of light and depth of detail not seen in modern photographs.

Discussing the history and design of each garden, author Helena Attlee brings to life the personalities responsible for such extravagant creations as the Alley of a Hundred Fountains at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, the swirling parterres de broderie of Villa Doria Pamphili in Rome, the broad terraces and majestic staircases of the Vatican Gardens, the frescoed loggia of the Villa Medici in Fiesole, and the border of innumerable citrus trees circling the Isolotto in Florence's famous Boboli Gardens. This volume introduces the intricacies and ornaments of the sumptuous gardens of Rome and Tuscany, and will transport readers to these unique, fragrant landscapes.

At Home with Wedgwood by Tricia Foley

2009-06-02T00:30:00-05:00

At Home with Wedgwood The Art of the Table
Written by Tricia Foley

There’s only one Wedgwood, but there are limitless expressions of Wedgwood style.

At Home with Wedgwood showcases 250 years of the company’s innovations–in all its manifestations–and the imaginative ways today’s collectors draw inspiration from the past and integrate Wedgwood pieces into their lives. Whether gracing a table for Saturday breakfast, bringing whimsy to a garden party, or arranged for a formal affair, Wedgwood is classically beautiful yet contemporarily stylish. Quite simply, Wedgwood is as much at home on the everyday table as it is when carefully styled for special occasions.

At the heart of At Home with Wedgwood are the homes of a group of renowned collectors, beautifully photographed to reveal how this diverse and dynamic group of people live and entertain with Wedgwood. From Carolyne Roehm’s movable feast to Charlotte Moss’s after-the-ballet supper, from the vintage collection that fills Thomas O’Brien’s country house to Jasper Conran’s English style, and from Vera Wang’s elegant bridal shower to Martha Stewart’s perfect setting, you will see how today’s style makers draw on their Wedgwood for every occasion.

At Home with Wedgwood also includes a stunning visual gallery of patterns–from classic favorites to popular new motifs–and a portrait of Josiah Wedgwood, the company’s inspirational founder whose values still inform Wedgwood today. Finally, a resource section makes this both a sumptuous book of style and a practical guide to the world’s best-known maker of tableware.

Discovering Wild Plant Names by John E. Stevens

2009-05-19T00:30:00-05:00

Discovering Wild Plant Names
Written by John E. Stevens

Trade Paperback, 64 pages | Shire | Gardening - Flowers - Wildflowers | $11.95 | May 19, 2009 | 978-0-85263-213-0 (0-85263-213-4)

Many wild plant names are derived from early Greek, Latin, or Old English and their antiquity can often cloud their original meaning. As the names of some plants have passed through the ages, their initial significance may have became distorted through mistakes in spelling, grammar, translation or simply through misunderstanding. In the eighteenth century the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus sought to bring order to the confusion of botanical classification by introducing a system of scientific names that would be universally understood. This book traces the origins of both the popular English names and the scientific names of many of the most common species of wild plants and trees in Great Britain. With detailed line drawings of some of the plants mentioned, John E. Stevens provides a comprehensive glossary of plant names from 'Aaron's rod' to 'Yew', making this a perfect pocket guide for keen gardeners and plant enthusiasts.

The Find by Charles King

2009-05-05T00:30:00-05:00

The Find The Housing Works Book of Decorating with Thrift Shop Treasures, Flea Market Objects, and Vintage Details
Written by Stan Williams
Foreword by Charles King

Hardcover, 240 pages | Clarkson Potter | House & Home; House & Home - Decorating | $27.50 | May 5, 2009 | 978-0-307-40625-5 (0-307-40625-3)

Sometimes you’re looking for it, sometimes it just finds you

Treasures of home décor abound at flea markets, thrift shops, and garage sales. But how do you know a find when you find it?
In The Find, Stan Williams and some of today’s most clever style makers, including Simon Doonan, John Derian, and Real Simple’s Kristin van Ogtrop–all diehard devotees of New York City’s Housing Works–show not just what to look for, but also how to look at an object to identify a great piece. The trick is to see beyond nicks and wobbles, color and intended purpose and to focus on potential. For example, a vintage leather trunk encased in Lucite works as a stunning coffee table. Pages from old books wallpaper a foyer. A cushion fashioned from a baseball diamond’s home plate makes a garden chair comfortable.

The Find includes chapters on furniture, accessories, small spaces, and entertaining. From a suburban ranch to an East Village studio in New York, each abode illustrates unexpected ways that secondhand items can make statements (or space) throughout a home.

Elegantly photographed, filled with practical sidebars about refurbishing, styling, and treasure-hunting, and replete with the quirky sensibility that has made Housing Works one of the most popular destinations for great things, The Find is at once a handbook and inspiration for vintage decorating. Secondhand does not mean second rate when there’s always something special to be found.

Perfect Curtains by Stephanie Hoppen

2009-04-28T00:30:00-05:00

Perfect Curtains Smart Solutions, Fabulous Fabrics, and Inspiring Designs
Written by Stephanie Hoppen

With a dizzying array of fabrics and hardware styles readily available, you can easily be overwhelmed when choosing how to best dress your windows. Perfect Curtains is the ideal resource for any would-be self designer: It has all the information and inspiration necessary to create spectacular styles single-handedly.

Stephanie Hoppen–the renown designer and author of eight books on home decor–adeptly guides you through the process of selecting the right patterns, textures, and colors for your home and enables you to bring order to curtain chaos with ideas for beautiful designs. Stephanie shares more than 200 stylish ideas, many created by some of the top designers in window treatments today, and in doing so she demonstrates how simple it is to decorate with an expert’s eye. From crisp naturals to romantic sheers, from stone-washed velvets in jewel tones to rustic ginghams and stripes, you can design curtains that match your style with ease.

More than just a gorgeous book, Perfect Curtains is also a practical handbook that explains the how-to basics of fitting and layering curtains, measuring windows, estimating fabric quantities, and choosing poles and finials. With an extensive resource section, Perfect Curtains is the ultimate guide for the inspiration and useful information you need to create ideal window treatments for any room.

Random House New Releases - House and Home - Gardening - Between November 28, 2008 and December 28, 2009.

How to Sew a Button by Erin Bried

How to Sew a Button And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother KnewWritten by Erin Bried

How to Sew a Button by Erin Bried

How to Sew a Button And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother KnewWritten by Erin Bried

Majestic Metropolitan Living by Sue Hostetler

Majestic Metropolitan Living Visionary Homes in the Heart of CitiesWritten by Sue Hostetler

The Peaceful Nursery by Laura Forbes Carlin

The Peaceful Nursery Preparing A Home For Your Baby With Feng ShuiWritten by Alison Forbes and Laura Forbes Carlin

A Clearing in the Woods by Roger Foley

A Clearing in the Woods Creating Contemporary GardensPhotographed by Roger Foley

P. Allen Smith's Container Gardens Deck by P. Allen Smith

P. Allen Smith's Container Gardens Deck 50 Recipes for Year-Round GardeningWritten by P. Allen Smith

The Comfortable Home by Bob Williams

The Comfortable Home How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well for LessWritten by Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams

Living with Wine by Alice Feiring

Living with Wine Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and ImbibingWritten by Samantha Nestor and Alice Feiring

Flora Mirabilis by Douglas Holland

Flora Mirabilis How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and BeautyWritten by Catherine H. Howell Foreword by Peter H. Raven Introduction by Douglas Holland

The Cleaning Encyclopedia by Don Aslett

The Cleaning Encyclopedia Written by Don Aslett

The Well-Dressed Home by Annette Tatum

The Well-Dressed Home Fashionable Design Inspired by Your Personal StyleWritten by Annette Tatum

Garden Gnomes by Twigs Way

Garden Gnomes A HistoryWritten by Twigs Way

Ed Begley, Jr.'s Guide to Sustainable Living by Ed Begley, Jr.

Ed Begley, Jr.'s Guide to Sustainable Living Learning to Conserve Resources and Manage an Eco-Conscious LifeWritten by Ed Begley, Jr.

Discovering Period Gardens by John Anthony

Discovering Period Gardens Written by John Anthony

Heirloom by Tim Stark

Heirloom Notes from an Accidental Tomato FarmerWritten by Tim Stark

Italian Gardens by Charles Latham

Italian Gardens Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian AgeWritten by Helena Attlee Photographed by Charles Latham

At Home with Wedgwood by Tricia Foley

At Home with Wedgwood The Art of the TableWritten by Tricia Foley

Discovering Wild Plant Names by John E. Stevens

Discovering Wild Plant Names Written by John E. Stevens

The Find by Charles King

The Find The Housing Works Book of Decorating with Thrift Shop Treasures, Flea Market Objects, and Vintage DetailsWritten by Stan Williams Foreword by Charles King

Perfect Curtains by Stephanie Hoppen

Perfect Curtains Smart Solutions, Fabulous Fabrics, and Inspiring DesignsWritten by Stephanie Hoppen

How to Sew a Button And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew
Written by Erin Bried

How to Sew a Button And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew
Written by Erin Bried

Majestic Metropolitan Living Visionary Homes in the Heart of Cities
Written by Sue Hostetler

The Peaceful Nursery Preparing A Home For Your Baby With Feng Shui
Written by Alison Forbes and Laura Forbes Carlin

A Clearing in the Woods Creating Contemporary Gardens
Photographed by Roger Foley

P. Allen Smith's Container Gardens Deck 50 Recipes for Year-Round Gardening
Written by P. Allen Smith

The Comfortable Home How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well for Less
Written by Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams

Living with Wine Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing
Written by Samantha Nestor and Alice Feiring

Flora Mirabilis How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty
Written by Catherine H. Howell
Foreword by Peter H. Raven
Introduction by Douglas Holland

The Cleaning Encyclopedia
Written by Don Aslett

The Well-Dressed Home Fashionable Design Inspired by Your Personal Style
Written by Annette Tatum

Garden Gnomes A History
Written by Twigs Way

Ed Begley, Jr.'s Guide to Sustainable Living Learning to Conserve Resources and Manage an Eco-Conscious Life
Written by Ed Begley, Jr.

Discovering Period Gardens
Written by John Anthony

Heirloom Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
Written by Tim Stark

Italian Gardens Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian Age
Written by Helena Attlee
Photographed by Charles Latham

At Home with Wedgwood The Art of the Table
Written by Tricia Foley

Discovering Wild Plant Names
Written by John E. Stevens

The Find The Housing Works Book of Decorating with Thrift Shop Treasures, Flea Market Objects, and Vintage Details
Written by Stan Williams
Foreword by Charles King

Perfect Curtains Smart Solutions, Fabulous Fabrics, and Inspiring Designs
Written by Stephanie Hoppen