Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home

A new edition includes updated pricing information and outlines current trends in home buying, citing what current events in the dot-com industry mean for online services, and providing website listings for deals on home products.

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The Homestead Builder - Charles P. Dwyer +w For the millions of fans of the "Foxfire" series comes a book filled with practical...  read more

2.  Build Your Own Low-Cost Timber and Beam House - William H. Stephens +w 3.  Off the Grid Homes - Lori Ryker +w 4.  How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin - W. Ben Hunt +w 5.  Secrets of Lock Picking - Steven Hampton +w 6.  American Collection Ranch Style - Hanley Wood +w 7.  The Very Small Home - Azby Brown +w 8.  Creating a New Old House - Russell Versaci +w 9.  Tiny Tiny Houses - Lester Walker +w 10.  The Big Book of Small House Designs - Don Mertz +w

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Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing - Lotta Jansdotter +w Brooklyn-based designer Lotta Jansdotter presents an enticingly easy to follow...  read more

2.  Domino - Conde Nast +w 3.  The Art of Natural Building - Joseph F. Kennedy +w 4.  Shabby Chic - Rachel Ashwell +w 5.  The Parts of a House - Graham Blackburn +w 6.  Flea Market Style - Emily Chalmers +w 7.  Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic - Rachel Ashwell +w 8.  Creating Vintage Style - Lucinda Ganderton +w 9.  The Solar House - Daniel D. Chiras +w 10.  The French-inspired Home, With French General - Kaari Zabala +w