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Adventures In Home-Making by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton. Adventures In Home-Making is a practical, illustrated memoir describing how the couple found, bought, and transformed a hillside house into a harmonious home through faith and persistent hands-on alteration. The book chronicles years of renovation, balancing beauty, health, and convenience with economy and personal taste. It covers interior transformations—from the library with diamond-pane windows and a secret stair, to a white-paneled dining room, a welcoming hall, and a guest-room—along with exterior work that creates a secluded porch, formal garden, lawn, and trees. It also details outdoor self-sufficiency features: a productive garden, chickens, fruit trees, beekeeping, a spring-house, and a stone-walled pool. Emphasizing that the house should reflect the maker’s personality, the Shackleton’s method combines practical craft with imaginative design, often salvaging old materials and found pieces rather than buying anew. The narrative is anchored by a philosophy that abundance comes from ingenuity and tenacity, not wealth, and is richly illustrated with photographs.
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