do-it-yourself work

Gives information about tools, hardware, building materials, and techniques for do-it-yourself projects in the home.

Provides instructions for numerous projects for the house, yard, and garden, including birdhouses, cold frames, plant stands and tubs, window boxes, smokehouses, fences, outdoor furniture, and greenhouses.

Provides easy-to-follow instructions designed to help young women survive in the real world and solve a variety of household, automotive, and financial challenges.

Provides illustrated step-by-step instructions for more than one hundred home improvement and home repair projects, including electrical and plumbing projects, painting, improving security and safety, installing flooring, and much more.

Suggests over one hundred home-improvement, decorative, or organizational projects that can be completed in four hours or less with step-by-step instructions to improve storage, fix dripping faucets, repair damaged screens, smooth rough walls, and more.

Provides step-by-step, simplified, illustrated instructions for doing five hundred useful things, such as hang a tire swing, decorate eggs, dice a mango, roast a turkey, use a muddler, pour a proper pint, tie a bowtie, dance the tango, combat jet lag, and more.

At head of title: Reader's digest. Describes a variety of traditional skills and handicrafts, including projects with illustrations.

A full-color, illustrated guide to tackling a number of basic projects around the house, with information on workshop tools, putting up fixtures, replacing cabinet doors, and laying concrete.

"Discover a world of new and not-so-new things to learn and do. With all sorts of practical and interesting activities ranging from making a scooter and learning to juggle to building an electromagnet and extracting DNA in your own kitchen, there's never an excuse to be bored!" -- cover.