10,001 Hints & Tips for the Home

Stuffed with remedies, solutions, ideas, tips, and techniques for gardening, cooking, decorating, managing, and organizing the home, an essential guide provides simple ways to maintain one's home, accompanied by a vast array of photographs, illustrations, charts, and diagrams.

This aptly titled book is a virtual encyclopedia of household tips, shortcuts, repairs, and solutions covering just about every single aspect of the home and garden. Organized into four main sections--organizing, decorating, cooking, and gardening--this is a basement-to-rooftop advice book. It has a detailed and lengthy index for fast reference, a section on measurements and weights, another on useful terms, and each chapter includes a quick-reference chapter index along with tip boxes, safety warnings, checklists itemizing key steps, and points to remember in projects and tasks. All in all, there is a huge amount of useful, practical information on running, repairing, improving, and enjoying your home in this hefty book. --Mark A. Hetts