The Cross Stitch Kit: 25 Elegant and Easy-To-Make Projects for Every Room in the House : Includes : A Complete Starter Kit With Cross-Stitch Fabric, Embroidery Needle, and

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A wonderful book for beginners!.......1999-06-24

I'm not really a beginning stitcher but I was interested in what this book could offer as projects. The charts are mostly simple and the instructions quite clear. I've finished one project and have started another! The fabric, floss and needle make it easy to get started right away. My only wish is that it included more fabric and floss so I could do the larger projects too! This book is a great way for a beginner to practice their skills on smaller charts and has some good finishing ideas as well.

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Elegant Cross-Stitch and Embroidery
Ondorisha
Manufacturer: Japan Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0870405381

The Elegant Needle: Cross Stitch Combined with Hardanger Embroidery, Book #1

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The Elegant Needle: Cross Stitch Combined with Hardanger Embroidery, Book #1
Kathie Stanley
Manufacturer: Kathie's Krosstitch
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JJL1V4

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Softcover, 8.5 x 11 inches, 22 pages, stapled binding, complete charts and instructions for six different projects.

Elegant Variations in Hardanger Embroidery

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Elegant Variations in Hardanger Embroidery
Olivieri Vaughnie
Manufacturer: Nordic Needle, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000L6VD18

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Includes fold-out chart (for runner) in envelope attached to back cover. Projects include: Pink Centerpiece, Box, Framed Design, Tray, Runner. pages. B&W photos and charting

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ELEGANT CROSS STITCH EMBROIDERY
ONDORI
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OMU97S

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Elegant Cross-stitch And Embroidery
Ondorisha Publishers
Manufacturer: Ondorisha Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K0D7S2

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From the most basic solutions to advanced, energy-saving projects, no book covers home insulation and weatherization like this one. With 35 drawings and 350 color photos guiding them, homeowners will learn how best to keep their homes warm in winter, cool in summer, and weather-tight all year long.

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Excellent book and worth every peeny.......2007-10-03

I purchased an old wooden home built about 1890 a few years ago. Other that some poorly installed blown fiberglass there wasn't any insulation in the house. I immediately started getting every book on insulating and energy efficiency that I could out of the library. This book was one of the last ones I read but it's the only one that I went back and purchased. It may not have step by step guides but what it does do is teach you about the basic mechanics of how your house works, which to me is more important than any step by step guide. It is not short on very specific advice either and also includes an excellent resource guide to purchase many of the things you will need to do the job. I have constantly referred back to this book as we slowly turn this leaky old home into a tight, energy efficient and more comfortable home.

This book is for anyone looking to improve the energy efficiency of their home, even if you are just in the design stage. Many more subjects than just insulation are covered.

Beginner to Expert, Something for all........2007-06-12

I am a firm believer in the KISS method of doing things. (Keep It Simple Stupid") Every step is covered in this book so that anyone can learn from it. The "Build Like A Pro" series of books are all laid out like this one. The "Expert Tips" are great. They show you short cuts to help you do the jobs right, but in less time. This is stuff you only learn by doing the job everyday. They are trade secrets.

Worth every penny ..........2007-02-21

This is the first book that I've ever been prompted to write an online review of. I'm having a new home built in the spring, and this book has given me the information needed to make sure my contractor is doing the job correctly. If you're inclined to do the work yourself, this is also the book you want. If you implement just one of the suggestions, you'll save many times the cost of the book.

Fantastic reference.......2007-01-19

I bought a 50 year old house 6 months ago and I've already checked this book out of the local library four times. Plenty of sections I keep coming back to. Excellent plan of attack for sealing, insulating, and then (when you need to) properly ventalating an older house. And the HVAC sections have been a great reference when were were shopping for central AC (which we just put in) and a new boiler (the next big project). I've raved about this book to so many other homeowners with high utility bills.

I had an energy audit done a litte while ago, and two guys came out to the house. One was the trainer, the other had just gone through the certification program. Between this book and the building sciences website, I felt like I knew more than the assitant. And that definitely helped me get more out of the audit, knowing what questions to ask and understanding the auditor's recommendations.

Learned Some Things.......2007-01-04

I live in a condo so not every part of this book was applicable. But I learned some very interesting things that were useful and essential when I was replacing my windows and wanted to re-insulate the window bays. For what I needed and learned, it was worth every penny.

Energy Saving Home Improvements from A to Z: Real Estate Investor, Homeowner, Home Buyer and Seller Survival Kit Series

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Excellent Book! We use this to train our home inspectors.
I learned a great deal of home improvement information
Learn from the experts how to make home repairs, improvement

Energy Saving Home Improvements from A to Z: Real Estate Investor, Homeowner, Home Buyer and Seller Survival Kit Series
Guy Cozzi
Manufacturer: Nemmar Real Estate Training
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1887450289

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Nemmar Real Estate Training is ranked as the most exclusive real estate appraiser, home inspector and real estate investor training service since 1988. Our real estate books, DVDs, CDs and Videos are rated number one in their real estate categories nationwide! Our products have taught thousands of home buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals worldwide. You too can learn everything you need to know about Real Estate - from Asbestos to Zoning. With this knowledge you will save thousands of dollars when you buy, sell, or renovate your home. You will also learn how to eliminate safety hazards and properly maintain a home. Statistics show an average savings of at least $4,700.00 per home for customers who have read our books. Our home inspection, appraisal, and home improvement books have been called the "Bible" of the real estate industry. Written by Guy Cozzi who has decades of experience as a licensed appraiser, home inspector, consultant, and real estate investor. This top selling author has been quoted as a real estate expert by the New York Times and many other publications. He has been a guest speaker on real estate investment TV shows and has taught thousands of people how to inspect, appraise and invest in real estate and provides advice to many banks and mortgage lenders.

Don't let your dream house be a Money Pit in disguise! Everything you need to know about energy saving home improvements from Asbestos to Zoning. "Don't buy, sell, or renovate your home without this!" Includes everything you need to know about making minor home improvements that increase the value of your home plus save energy and drastically reduce your utility bills from A to Z. You'll learn how to:

- Reduce your energy bills by 50% or more.
- Lower house maintenance and capital costs.
- Decrease environmental impact
- Dramatically enhance comfort and health for you and your family.
- Anyone can benefit from this book: home buyers, home sellers, home builders, home renovators, home inspectors, appraisers, builders, contractors, and all real estate professionals.

Every aspect of homes are covered:
- Home Renovations and Additions
- Appliances
- Heating
- Cooling
- Heat Pumps
- Fireplaces and Wood Heating
- Water Heating
- Water Savings
- Insulation
- Doors and Windows
- Roofs
- Lighting
- Landscaping
- Swimming Pools
- Solar Energy
- Everything under the sun and more!

The real facts other books don't tell you! You'll learn how to lower your utility bills by 50%, live more comfortably, and help the environment. Home builders and contractors "cut corners" to maximize their own profits when doing home repairs and renovations. This is unquestionably the only book of its kind that teaches you how to prevent those pitfalls. You get information that the professionals use to make you an educated consumer enabling you to negotiate a much better price on the purchase, renovation, or sale of your home. Whether you are looking to become a home builder or contractor, or just to buy, sell or renovate your own home - this book has it all.

Do you really know the true condition and energy efficiency of your home? Don't let your dream house be a money pit in disguise! This "A to Z Home Improvement" book will assist you with the biggest investment of your life - your own home. These products were originally designed to train top-notch, professional home inspectors, appraisers, investors, builders, contractors, and Realtors and are now available at a price affordable to everyone. All homes need to be inspected, appraised and updated for safety hazards, routine maintenance, and energy efficiency

This book has many pages of photographs and illustrations covering every topic. The photos are detailed to show you what to look for when making energy saving home improvements. By identifying any problem conditions before you buy, sell, or renovate, you'll be able to save a lot of money.

288 pages with 8.5" x 11" dimensions. This book and the Real Estate from A to Z series are now being offered at a very large discount via the Internet compared to our normal professional training school prices.

Key Benefits:
- Crucial Advice to Assist You: This book tells you the truth, unlike others that gloss over the hard facts. Aspects of home improvement and real estate investment that tell you the realities so you don't walk into it with your eyes closed. This information will be invaluable to you in a home purchase, sale or ownership.
- Safety Concerns: Eliminate safety hazards to make your home safe for you and your family. Help prevent accidents before they happen! Learn how to identify safety and health hazards around your own home.
- In-Depth Home Improvement Topics: You'll learn every aspect of energy saving home improvements. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, this book is easy to read and understand. Get all of the important information you need in just one book. Never buy, sell or renovate a home without this!

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Book! We use this to train our home inspectors........2005-07-23

I own a very successful home inspection business in California. We use all of this authors products to train my staff since they are the by far the best products for real estate training on the market. We originally found out about these products through excellent book reviews in the local real estate publications. From that we learned the following details and decided to purchase the whole "Real Estate From A to Z" series by this author:

Nemmar Real Estate Training is ranked as the most exclusive real estate appraiser training, home inspector training, and real estate investor consulting service since 1988. Our real estate books, DVDs, CDs and Videos are rated number one in their real estate categories nationwide! Our products have taught thousands of home buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals worldwide. You too can learn everything you need to know about Real Estate - from Asbestos to Zoning. With this knowledge you will save thousands of dollars when you buy, sell, or renovate your home. You will also learn how to eliminate safety hazards and properly maintain a home. Statistics show an average savings of at least $4,700.00 per home for customers who have our books and DVD videos. Our real estate investment, home inspection, appraisal, and home improvement books have been called the "Bible" of the real estate industry. Written by Guy Cozzi, who has decades of experience as a licensed appraiser, home inspector, consultant, and real estate investor. This top selling author has been quoted as a real estate expert by the New York Times and many other publications. He has been a guest speaker on real estate investment TV shows and has taught thousands of people how to conduct home inspections, real estate appraisals, and how to invest in real estate. He also provides real estate advice to many banks and mortgage lenders.

I learned a great deal of home improvement information.......2004-10-02

The other books I have purchased by this author were excellent so I bought this one also and am very happy with my purchase. Renovating our home has been a MAJOR expense and project so we wanted to make sure that we did everything in the most energy efficient and cost effective way. There were countless tips and methods to greatly reduce our utility bills with the renovation work that we learned in this book. We had a house builder do the renovation work we couldn't do ourselves but we still used this book to in a way give advice to the builder to do the renovations so they will cut our electric, heating and air-conditioning bills. Our builder was quite surprised at how much we knew about energy efficient renovations. But we can't take the credit since it was all learned from this book. Highly recommended book if you're want to learn how to greatly reduce your utility bills.

Learn from the experts how to make home repairs, improvement.......2004-08-09

When my wife and I wanted to make a lot of repairs and upgrading to our home we read many books on the subject before starting the work or hiring contractors. This book was a great help since it contains a ton of expert advice, research, and information about the best ways to make repairs and improvements (both minor and major upgrading) in the most cost effective manner. The added bonus of the information in this book is that we learned how to reduce our utility consumption by about half! The topics show you how to make all the updating with energy efficiency in mind at no extra cost to do the work. That we a great bonus to the instructions. Some of the work opn our house were major updates and had to be done by professional builders and contractors. With what we learned from this book my wife and I were able to double check the estimates and work performed by the pro contractors to make sure they did everything the correct and most energy and cost efficient manner. We did detect some aspects of the job that we told the contractors to do differently from what we learned in the book(instead of them cutting corners to increase their own profits). All in all - great book and great choice for any home owner serious about make energy saving home improvements!

Residential Windows: A Guide to New Techonologies and Energy Performance, Third Edition

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Residential Windows: A Guide to New Techonologies and Energy Performance, Third Edition
John Carmody , Stephen Selkowitz , Bariush Arasteh , and Lisa Heschong
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Binding: Paperback

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Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technology and Energy Performance

ASIN: 0393732258

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The authoritative guide for homeowners and builders, updated and expanded, with new photographs and diagrams.

This guide provides all the information necessary to evaluate windows and make intelligent choices. It includes revised energy-performance and cost information for more locations; advances in emerging technologies; revised and expanded sections on comfort, durability, and life-cycle performance; new information on window installation methods, building codes, and impact-resistant windows; and much more. Illustrated.

Popular Mechanics Weatherproofing & Insulation (Popular Mechanics)

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Popular Mechanics Weatherproofing & Insulation

Popular Mechanics Weatherproofing & Insulation (Popular Mechanics)
Albert Jackson , and David Day
Manufacturer: Hearst
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1588165345

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In the average house, heat is escaping through every leak, draft, and opening—and that’s like throwing money out the window. Good insulation and weatherproofing can make your home run more efficiently, guard it from the elements, and lower those ever-rising heating bills. Popular Mechanics makes the entire process simple, with hundreds of color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations that teach you how to insulate from top to bottom. Find out how to reflect heat from a radiator, seal gaps around doors, double-glaze windows or add weather-stripping, install vapor barriers, ventilate properly, and block out the chill in attics and between rafters. You’ll feel the difference, and see the savings, almost instantly.

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Popular Mechanics Weatherproofing & Insulation.......2007-03-31

Has very little info on insulation, I would not recommend it to anyone.

Weatherproofing (Home Repair and Improvement)

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Weatherproofing (Home Repair and Improvement)
Time-Life Books
Manufacturer: Time-Life Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Insulating and Weatherproofing (Home Repair and Improvement (Updated Series))

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Insulating and Weatherproofing (Home Repair and Improvement (Updated Series))

Manufacturer: Time-Life Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Do It Yourself Insulation & Weatherstripping: For Year-Round Energy Saving

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Do It Yourself Insulation & Weatherstripping: For Year-Round Energy Saving
Sunset
Manufacturer: Sunset Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback

Electrical, Plumbing, Insulation, and the Interior

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All pictures, no text
Helpful for repairing old houses
Good bood, but only if...
Part of the "Illustrated Home Series"

Electrical, Plumbing, Insulation, and the Interior
Alan Carson , and Robert Dunlop
Manufacturer: Stoddart
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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All pictures, no text.......2006-05-09

Each page has a bunch of pictures, with a caption. No detail, no text. Disappointing.

Helpful for repairing old houses.......2005-04-30

I found the book very useful because I already have some knowledge of home renos. I can read circuit diagrams and already understand the BC Electrial code, and have done quite a bit of remedial plumbing in my former houses. It may not be quite so useful for someone starting out renovating for the first time because it assumes some prior knowledge of house construction.
I found the electrical section concentrated too much on the electrical panel and not enough on the house wiring. Having said that, the few parts that did apply to the location of electrial wires and boxes was useful and very clear.
The plumbing section was much more useful. I found the numerous pictures to be extremely clear and very helpful, especially in relation to the location of vent pipes and traps when I was trying to relocate the sink and washing machine. I was having trouble understanding the drawings in the plumbing section of the BC building code, but after reading the Carson Dunlop book I was able to fathom out what the BC code was saying.
The insulation section was also clear and informative.

Good bood, but only if..........2002-11-18

You're a Home Inspector or simply in search of picture after picture with little other detail other than technical information. If you are looking for advice on how to repair or fix items, DO NOT BUY this or other Carson Dunlop books in this series, or the $$$ - The Illustrated Home. Carson Dunlop is a firm out of Canada that does produce good materials for Home Inspectors, but these are not "how to" manuals, nor are these books good for the average home owner. The reviewer g_clarke is, in my view, clearly associated with Carson Dunlop and his or her review should be ignored - check out his/her other reviews, they are worded exactly the same for each book in this series. Kind of sad when people write misleading reviews to simply increase sales. On the positive - DO BUY this book if you are simply looking for very detailed technical information.

Part of the "Illustrated Home Series".......2000-11-24

With almost 500 illustrations, "Electrical, Plumbing, Insulation and the Interior" shows you exactly what the finished job should look like.

Alan Carson and Robert Dunlop prove in this easy-to-use book that pictures really are worth a thousand words. Through clearly detailed illustrations Carson and Dunlop walk you through your home, showing you just what your repairs and renovations should look like, inside and out. This book is an excellent tool for the new home owner or home inspector, showing you which pitfalls to avoid and what to look for when searching for potential problems in the electrical work, plmbing and insulation in your or your client's home.

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Good Bare Bones Explanation of Home Insulation

Home Insulation: Do It Yourself and Save As Much As 40%
Harry Yost
Manufacturer: Storey Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0882666940

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Good Bare Bones Explanation of Home Insulation.......2005-01-26

This is a good, bare-bones explanation for the do-it-yourselfer (like me) who needs actual information about home insulation installation techniques. If you are a visual learner, however, this may not be the book for you since there are no photos -- only black-and-white drawn illustrations.

Insulating, Sealing & Ventilating Your House

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Insulating, Sealing & Ventilating Your House
William P. Spence
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 1402724098

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Good insulation can keep a house cozy in winter, and cool in summer—while saving money and conserving energy. In amazingly thorough detail, with plenty of color illustrations, William P. Spence, author of such bestsellers as Carpentry and Building Construction, describes every step of insulating, sealing, and ventilating your home. He shows how to determine the amount of insulation needed, locate air leaks, regulate air quality, and determine the costs versus benefits of any job. Find out where to start work, which materials are most effective, and how to handle potential insulation problems. From air-sealing external walls to adding vapor barriers, all you need to know is here.

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