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Improving your home’s energy efficiency doesn’t require expensive renovations or complicated upgrades. Often, the most meaningful changes come from small, thoughtful improvements that reduce waste, increase comfort, and lower monthly energy costs.

Clutter is not just a storage problem. It is a stress problem. From overflowing closets and chaotic kitchen counters to digital overload and paper piles, clutter quietly drains your time, energy, and mental clarity. It turns your home into a source of anxiety instead of a place of rest. The Clutter-Free Mind is a practical, no-perfection-required guide to reclaiming your space and restoring calm to your daily life.

Home is often seen as a place of comfort and refuge, yet beneath its calm surface lies a continuous flow of materials, energy, water, and consumption. Much of this flow follows a linear path—from purchase to disposal—quietly generating waste, inefficiency, and environmental strain. The Circular Home invites listeners to rethink this familiar system and reimagine the home as a regenerative, intelligent ecosystem built on the principles of circular living.

Sunflower Inspired Living is a beautifully crafted guide for anyone who loves decorating with meaning, creating by hand, and designing spaces and events that feel joyful and welcoming. Inspired by the timeless beauty and symbolism of sunflowers, this book blends creativity, home décor, and heartfelt handmade projects into one inspiring lifestyle guide.

'Gorgeous. A joy to read from start to finish' JILL MANSELL 'An exquisite story bursting at the seams with summer, hope and love' MILLY JOHNSON Sometimes you have to let your heart rule your head . . . Cherry, Maggie and Rose are mother, daughter and granddaughter, each with their own hopes...

Self-sufficiency doesn’t happen overnight—your first step starts here. If you dream of living more independently, growing your own food, and staying prepared even when modern systems fail, this beginner-friendly guide will show you how to start small, stay confident, and build real skills—one project at a time. You don’t need special experience or a complete lifestyle overhaul. With clear guidance and simple projects, you’ll gain the know-how to create a more resilient and sustainable life.

When it comes to truly finding out who you are and what makes you tick, there is one thing that needs no online subscription to a cloud-based server with a password you keep forgetting. That, my friend, is a shed. Your shed is your refuge. It's the place where you go when you need a break from this mad, crazy world. Once you're inside the four walls of your shed, you can do whatever you like. You're the king in there.

Real Life Organizing offers clutter-free storage solutions and advice that can help you create a Pinterest-worthy home on a small budget: Learn how to organize your home, simplify life, and have more time for the things you love.

In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning to...

A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York’s most iconic spaces. For forty years, Mark Ellison has worked in the most beautiful homes you’ve never seen...

With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.

In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East London for a derelict château with 12 acres of land in the Loire valley. Where Sunday Times bestseller A Year At The Château told the entertaining and...

Take a journey to Château-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge. Dick and Angel recount the newest and biggest challenges they faced on the journey to transforming their once derelict and abandoned château in France's...

Harness the Sun is a practical, easy-to-understand guide designed to help homeowners and beginners confidently explore the world of solar power. Whether you're considering installing solar panels or simply want to understand how solar energy can transform your home, this book provides the knowledge you need to make smart and cost-effective decisions. Solar energy is no longer just for experts or large installations. With advancing technologies and falling equipment costs, more households than ever are switching to clean, renewable power.

Modern homes are often filled with noise, clutter, harsh lighting, and constant stimulation—making it difficult for the mind and body to truly relax. The Calm Home offers a practical approach to creating spaces that support comfort, emotional balance, and sensory ease.

How do you place a bed in an awkward room? How can your space help you be more focused and more productive? How do you set up your room to make you ready for romantic love? It’s simple! In Feng Shui Modern, TikTok influencer Cliff Tan answers these questions and more, explaining the ancient practice of feng shui and how it can be translated to modern homes. Cliff has become an internet sensation with his videos demonstrating the principles of feng shui, and in this practical guide he shows how to apply these principles room-by-room in your own home.

As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation's stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense that they had no place in 20th-century Britain, hundreds of ancestral piles were dismantled and demolished. Perhaps even more surprising was the fact that so many of these great houses survived, as dukes and duchesses clung desperately to their ancestral seats and tenants' balls gave way to rock concerts, safari parks and day trippers.

THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale château, complete with 45...

When Jess Newman married the love of her life Ben she was sure they had what it took to stay together forever. So when Ben falls out of love with her only to promptly fall in the arms of new girlfriend, Naomi, she really doesn't know how to come to terms with their divorce.

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.