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IZOD Brand Launches Collection For Home
by eNotAlone.com
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, an apparel company which makes Calvin Klein, DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and other famous clothing brands, has announced on Monday that it has licensed WestPoint Home, Inc., a leading home textile manufacturer and market

Part 1
Living Like Ed; A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life
by Ed Begley, Jr.
A committed environmentalist for more than thirty years, Ed Begley, Jr., has always tried to live simply so others may simply live. Now, as more and more of us are looking for ways to reduce our impact on the planet and live a better, greener life

Introduction: Start Here
The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, and personalize your place
by Carley Roney
A well-decorated home looks attractive to guests, but your well-decorated home is an extension of your personality. Some people wake up in the morning with an instant understanding of their style.

Introduction, Part 1
The Well-Dressed Home: Fashionable Design Inspired by Your Personal Style
by Annette Tatum
There has been a revolution in the decorating world. When past generations made decision on what their home interiors would look like, their choices were limited. For them, decorating means little more than choosing a style, such as traditional

The Green Home Audit
Ed Begley, Jr.'s Guide to Sustainable Living: Learning to Conserve Resources and Manage an Eco-Conscious Life
by Ed Begley, Jr.
I know, for a lot of folks, it's really tempting to go straight to the shiny, sexy stuff, like installing solar panels or a whole-house fan or geothermal heating and cooling. But before you mount solar panels on your roof, before you invest in a residenti

Kitchen Purge
The Itty Bitty Kitchen Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Setting Up and Cooking in the Most Ridiculously Small Kitchen in the World - Your Own
by Justin Spring
If your cluttered small kitchen makes you dread cooking even the simplest meal, it's time for you to reclaim that space - and your sanity! - with this practical and witty guide. Here you will learn how to: purge your kitchen of unnecessary, space-hogging

Girls and Women
by Harriet E. Paine
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. That is, it is the family which makes the home, and this is even truer of the mother and her daughters than of the father and his sons.

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Having duly arranged for the physical necessities of a healthful and comfortable home, we next approach the important subject of beauty in reference to the decoration of houses. For while the aesthetic element must be subordinate to the requirement

Where perfection goes, nonsense is sure to follow
Rescue from Domestic Perfection: The Not-So Secrets of Balancing Life and Style
by Dan Ho
I'm hardly a statistician, nor does this book purport to present the results of some major study on useless junk as it exists in America's homes. Still, I'm willing to bet that the average person reading this book or one who has ventured into the aisle

Vision
Joan Kohn's It's Your Kitchen: Over 100 Inspirational Kitchens
by Joan Kohn
Hardwood floors or linoleum? Marble countertops or formica? When designing or renovating a kitchen, there are a million choices, and each one must reflect personal taste, lifestyle, and budget. Now, Joan Kohn offers advice to help readers get the kitchen

The Humble Makings of an Interior Designer
Furnishing Forward: A Practical Guide to Furnishing for a Lifetime
by Sheila Bridges
Furnishing Forward guides the reader through finding a personal style, establishing a realistic budget, and working with color. It covers many basic issues of decorating, such as finding the right balance amoung sofas and other upholstered furniture

What Is Rightsizing?
Rightsizing Your Life: Simplifying Your Surroundings While Keeping What Matters Most
by Ciji Ware
Whether it's going from the multi-bedroom suburban house to the city condo, or from a country and city house to one cozy cottage, millions of Americans in the coming years will face the task of planning a shift to smaller or more practical quarters

Smart Tools
The Accidental Housewife
by Julie Edelman
This has a few meanings. The first is being smart about buying tools that will help you do any of your cleaning tasks easily and with little toll on your body. These smart tools include all the disposable wd we dreamed of when we imagined life as an adult

How to Overcome Housekeeping Hysteria One Task at a Time
The Accidental Housewife
by Julie Edelman
It seems like OH-MY-GOD-liness would probably be a more accurate statement. After all, cleaning brings us into a world filled with ungodly and varying amounts of dust, dirt, and doo-doo. Surely not the world we dreamed of when we imagined life as an adult

Chapter One
Do-It-Yourself Family
by Eric Stromer
I have often thought of family life as a great unwinnable battle, complete with strategies, battle plans, troop movements, victories, and of course, occasional total and complete failure and humiliation.

So what was the problem?
Apartment Therapy
by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
Whichever type you identify with, the cure is balance. Whether warm or cool, you never want to change your basic temperament. It is who you are and it contains your strengths.

Is Your Home Healthy?
Apartment Therapy
by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
In the first few years that I took on clients, I was surprised by the number of people who were miserable in their homes. I wondered what was going on to cause so much distress.

The Art of Homekeeping
Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping: Timeless Wisdom and Practical Advice
by Miriam Willingham Lukken, M.Ed.
A delightful and practical compendium of homespun advice, cleaning and etiquette tips, traditional recipes, and Southern wit, this book will bring warmth, gentility, and order into your home. Today many of us yearn for the home-centered values

Dirt Detective Aggie's Most Unwanted Grime File
How Clean Is Your House? Hundreds of Handy Tips to Make Your Home Sparkle
by Kim Woodburn, Aggie MacKenzie
Modern, warm, humid homes provide ideal conditions for dust mites. They especially love living in our beds, which are warm and moist. They feed on flakes of human skin- of we each shed about 1 gram every day. They go to the toilet often and their feces

Getting started
How Clean Is Your House? Hundreds of Handy Tips to Make Your Home Sparkle
by Kim Woodburn, Aggie MacKenzie
The international bestseller How Clean Is Your House? is a new kind of cleaning book-full-color, hilarious, and fun. Packed with trade secrets and inventive cleaning solutions, it goes through the house room by room, offering do's and don'ts, step-by-step