House Improvement

In 1552, in the countryside outside Venice, the great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio built Villa Cornaro. In 1989, Sally and Carl Gable became its bemused new owners. Called by Town & Country one of the ten most influential buildings in the world, the villa is the centerpiece of the Gables’ enchanting journey into the life of a place that transformed their own.

Slash your bills, boost your comfort, and save the planet with this easy guide to energy-efficient home improvement. Are you curious about how small changes can make a big difference for the environment—and the well-being of your family? Are you wondering how to sort through the overwhelming number of options and technical jargon associated with energy-efficient upgrades? If so, you’re not the only one. 9 out of 10 homebuyers would rather buy a more expensive home with energy-efficient features versus a cheaper and less energy-efficient home.

The Ultimate Home Improvement Blueprint is your all-in-one guide to transforming your home with expert DIY renovation, remodeling, and smart home upgrades. Packed with step-by-step instructions, pro tips, and budget-friendly strategies, this book helps homeowners enhance functionality, style, and property value. Whether you're remodeling a kitchen, upgrading a bathroom, or integrating smart technology, this blueprint ensures you achieve professional-quality results.

Every minute of every day, we are managing a volatile internal ecosystem: elements, mind, ego, spirit, will, heart, body—the list is endless. These items on their own can feel overwhelming and we have yet to add living to the list. As a result, we end up stuck and paralyzed by inaction, where what should be open terrain becomes an impassable range of mountains. But what those mountains know and can teach us will unlock all that we are meant to be, if we only have the courage to listen and, more importantly, to seek their counsel.

Learn how to become time wise using the hacks that high achievers rely on to accomplish more than the average person—so you can do your best work and have fun while doing it. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber has interviewed more than 150 best-selling authors, musicians, entertainers, entrepreneurs and business leaders for her podcast, How I Work, to get inside their heads and understand the routines and rituals that enable them to achieve their purpose.

Your home is not just a place where you live; it’s a reflection of your personal style, a sanctuary where you relax, and an investment in your future. Whether you’re a homeowner, a renter, or someone looking to improve their living space, learning the basics of home improvement and DIY (Do-It-Yourself) projects can empower you to maintain and enhance your environment.

This book was written to everyone that has every wanted to find out what their true meaning and purpose was in life. In the more simple way of living it will help the reader to define how their life matters and how to live it to the fullest.

Your home should be your safe place, but for some, it feels like a place where they are stuck in old thoughts, stubborn habits, and stalled health goals. But what can you do about it? For thousands of years, people from Asia have used the teachings of Feng Shui to enhance their homes, which eventually enhanced their lives.

In this uplifting audiobook, Ashley Brown revolutionizes the world of dating by sharing her unique and enriching experience from going from a certified "hot mess" to a housewife. Ashley explores what it means to transition from unhealthy patterns of dating to dating with a purpose. Ashley shares a sweet and simple truth that you do not have to adopt the negative generational patterns of your past, but that you can become the change you hope to see. After meeting and marrying the love of her live, she encourages listeners to not only prepare for God’s best but to expect it!

"Your life is crafted and manipulated by others." That statement above sounds scary and is met with great resistance by many, but it is unfortunately true in most cases. It is often family, education, society, as well as other hierarchical organizations that tell us how to think, act, learn, and live. It is through these belief systems from these external structures in which we allow our lives to be lived. This leads to disempowerment, confusion, and ultimately unhappiness.

You are self-reliant and self-confident. You accept this. You’re filled with independence and determination. You retain a calm, optimistic outlook at all times. You feel powerful and in control.

This sleep meditation is designed to help you fall asleep fast and to support and enhance your memory, recall, retention, focus, concentration, mental agility, and more. Listen while you sleep because your subconscious mind is always listening. Encourage positive beliefs within your subconscious mind and this is what you'll create in your life.

ThJohn Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession to record for posterity the beauty of individual snowflakes, the boundless scientific curiosity behind Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA, sea lions that surf and porcupines that dance–Kay Redfield Jamison shows how these and many more examples both human and animal define the nature of exuberance, and how this exuberance relates to intellectual searching, risk-taking, creativity, and survival itself

You absolutely can change your life! While there is no one formula that is exactly right for everyone, health professionals and behavior experts continue to prove that specific factors contribute most to the accomplishment of self-changing goals. Happiness is what life is all about. Although there is no one happiness formula that is right for everyone, the behavior experts continue to prove that there are several factors that contribute most to meaningful happiness.

Looking for the keys to a vibrant, joyful, vital life? Lifestyle pioneer Debbie Travis has found them in the Tuscan hills. And in her lively, inspiring way, she shares how to bring all that healthful magic home in Joy, a glorious book infused with the warmth and colour of life at the Villa Reniella, the thirteenth-century farmhouse retreat to which she welcomes guests from around the world.

Discover several techniques for easy and stress-free decluttering and organizing of your space. Step-by-step instructions will help you find joy in getting things done.

Tanto el miedo como la incertidumbre son parte inseparable de la vida, y los vamos a experimentar en innumerables ocasiones a lo largo de ella. Pretender evadirlos o negarlos, sólo los complica y refuerza; comprenderlos en la medida de lo posible y aprender a manejarlos, nos facilita la posibilidad de lidiar con estos compañeros inseparables que nos acompañarán en muchos momentos y situaciones. A estas alturas, ya nos queda bien claro que la incertidumbre y el miedo son parte de la vida y que sólo elegimos qué hacer con ellos. ¿Los sufrimos? ¿O mejor les abrimos los brazos?

Este libro es una invitación a reflexionar acerca del proceso que se atraviesa cuando se busca conquistar aquello que se desea. No todos buscamos lo mismo, pero todos recorremos un camino similar deseemos lo que deseemos, y en esa universalidad podemos encontrar un sentido, el de los pasos inevitables de toda búsqueda, de toda entrega, de todo milagro y presencia.

Step into Your Moxie is a soul-stirring call to action to speak up for yourself and the ideas and issues that matter most to you. Dubbed a "Moxie Maven" by President Obama's White House Office of Public Engagement for her potent approach to women's empowerment, Alexia Vernon has helped thousands of women (and men) slay diminishing self-talk and cultivate confidence. She has created a timely, refreshingly playful guide for women to communicate with candor, clarity, compassion, and ease every time they open their mouths to speak - in their careers, communities, and homes.

Carpenter, waitress, janitor, upholsterer, secretary, milkmaid, wilderness ranger, environmental activist, entrepreneur, the founder of MaryJanesFarm has worn many hats in her day, but none more proudly than that of modern-day farmgirl. Speaking to the farmgirl in all of us, MaryJane Butters offers a captivating introduction to the organic lifestyle, resurrects forgotten domestic arts, and shares lessons gleaned from her diverse background and two decades of life as an Idaho farmer.