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This best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.

2) Black and Decker Advanced Home Wiring Updated: Current with 2023-2026 Codes--Featuring instructions for: Backup Power, Panel Upgrades, AFCI Protection, "Smart" Thermostats, + More

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Cool Springs Press

Pub. Date

2024

Edition

Language

English

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eBook, Kindle

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The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Take on advanced wiring projects with confidence with up-to-date advice and photo-illustrated step-by-step instructions from a trusted brand.
Equipped to comply with the 2023–2026 electrical codes and chock-full of information that's hard to find online, BLACK+DECKER Advanced Home Wiring, Updated 6th Edition, gives you an in-depth look at more sophisticated products and more advanced projects in home wiring. Some of these

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3) Marie Kondo's kurashi at home: how to organize your space and achieve your ideal life

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Kondō, Marie

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English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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TIME for Kids Informational Text

"From the #1 bestselling sensation and Netflix star comes her guide to designing not just the home-but the life-of your dreams, fully illustrated with more than 200 photographs from inside the Marie Kondo lifestyle"--

4) Homes Around the World Read-Along ebook

Author

Rice, Dona Herweck

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Publisher

Teacher Created Materials

Pub. Date

2020

Edition

Language

English

Description

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Learn about the different places that people call home—from apartments to cottages and castles to farmhouses. With bright, vivid photos and easy-to-read informational text, readers are introduced to different cultures definitions of "home."

5) Sustainable Badass: A Zero-Waste Lifestyle Guide

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Johansen, Gittemarie

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English

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A Guide to Being Sustainable at Home and in Life

"Gittemarie is creator that not only provides helpful tips on living a zero-waste and vegan lifestyle, but also articulates it in way that is approachable." —Jhánneu Roberts (@Jhanneu)

#1 New Release in Upcycling & Repurposing

Reshape your conventional habits, purchases, and recipes with these simple yet effective zero-waste alternatives!

Eco-friendly

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6) Zero waste home: the ultimate guide to simplifying your life by reducing your waste

Author

Johnson, Bea

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English

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Home Design & Décor Books

"In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste. Today, Bea, her husband, Scott, and their two young sons produce just one quart of garbage a year, and their overall quality of life has changed for the better: they now have more time together, they've cut their annual spending by a remarkable 40 percent, and they are healthier than they've ever been. This book shares essential how-to advice, secrets,...

7) Minimalista: your step-by-step guide to a better home, wardrobe, and life

Author

Gill, Shira

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English

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"The co-founders of Havenly help you find your own style in this fresh and accessible guidebook to the complicated world of interior design"--

8) Love people, use things: because the opposite never works

Author

Millburn, Joshua Fields

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

"How might your life be better with less? Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, less stress and debt and discontent-a life with fewer distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and contentment-a life of passion, unencumbered by the trappings of the chaotic world around you. What you're imagining is an intentional life. And to get there, you'll have to let go of...

9) Spark joy: an illustrated master class on the art of organizing and tidying up

Author

Kondō, Marie

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Language

English

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Thorndike Press large print lifestyles

Marie Kondo's unique KonMari Method of tidying up is nothing short of life-changing -- and her first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, has become a worldwide sensation. In Spark Joy, Kondo presents an in-depth, illustrated manual on how to declutter and organize specific items throughout the house, from kitchen and bathroom items to work-related papers and hobby collections. User-friendly line drawings illustrate Kondo's patented folding...

10) The minimalist home: a room-by-room guide to a decluttered, refocused life

Author

Becker, Joshua

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Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, Large Print

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The popular blogger and author of The More of Less outlines practical guidelines for simplifying a home lifestyle and rendering spaces both peaceful and purposeful while addressing the underlying issues that contribute to home clutter problems.

11) Outer order, inner calm: declutter & organize to make more room for happiness

Author

Rubin, Gretchen

Pub. Date

2019.

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English

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"With clarity and humor, bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. And for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution doesn't work. In this easy-to-read but hard-to-put-down book, Gretchen Rubin suggests more than 150 short, concrete clutter-clearing ideas so each reader can choose the ones...

12) Goodbye, things: the new Japanese minimalism

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Sasaki, Fumio

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English

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Description

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

"Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo--he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn't absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude for everything around him. In Goodbye, Things Sasaki modestly shares his...

13) How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets

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White, Dana K

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English

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Description

Bring your home out of the mess it’s in—and learn how to keep it under control! Housekeeping expert Dana K. White shares reality-based cleaning and organizing techniques that will help you learn what really works.

Do you experience heart palpitations at the sound of an unexpected doorbell? Do you stare in bewilderment at your messy home, wondering how in the world it got this way again? You’re not alone.

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14) Homebody: a guide to creating spaces you never want to leave

Author

Gaines, Joanna

Pub. Date

2018.

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English

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"In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well as a range of other homes, this comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities and instincts, as well as your likes and dislikes, with practical steps..."--Amazon.com.

15) Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff

Author

White, Dana K

Publisher

Thomas Nelson

Pub. Date

2018

Edition

Unabridged

Language

English

Description

You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff-you can get rid of clutter for good! While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, real women with real families who are constantly growing and changing simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and...

16) Safe and sound: a renter-friendly guide to home repair

Author

Stardust, Mercury

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Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

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Description

Home Design & Décor Books

"Renting a home can be a complex process--from finding a safe and affordable space, to hiring help for moving in and out, and of course, managing any repairs that come up during your stay. You deserve to feel empowered to take matters into your own hands--and it's not as hard as you might think. In this book, Mercury will show you how to tackle the projects that need improvement in your home--from how to properly fix a clog in your bathroom sink and...

17) Martha Stewart's organizing: the manual for bringing order to your life, home & routines

Author

Stewart, Martha

Pub. Date

2020.

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English

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"How to organize everything, from America's most trusted lifestyle authority, with color photographs throughout and hundreds of ideas, projects, and tips"--

18) At home: a short history of private life

Author

Bryson, Bill

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English

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Bryson takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life. Explores the ways in which homes reflect history, from a bathroom's revelations about medicine and hygiene to a kitchen's exposure of the stories of trade and nutrition.

19) The Martha manual: how to do (almost) everything

Author

Stewart, Martha

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English

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Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Martha Stewart is Americas go-to source for the best answers to nearly every question. As an authority on the many worlds upon which shes built her domestic empire, she can advise on everything from creating a cutting garden and setting the table to playing classic lawn games or building a campfire. Whether its organizing, celebrating, cleaning, decorating, or any number of other life skills, these are the time-tested, Martha-approved strategies for...

20) Organizing for the rest of us: 100 realistic strategies to keep any house under control

Author

White, Dana K

Publisher

Thomas Nelson

Language

English

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