Household management and home hints Books

Discover the joy of cleaning with this cheery and thoughtful guide to tidying up and turning your house into a home.Patric Richardson is known as “The Laundry Evangelist,” but his genuine love for household chores extends far beyond the laundry room...

The beautiful new ‘Whittaker Journal’ from content creator and youtuber, Carys Whittaker. Plan your days, weeks and months, and reflect on thoughts and feelings whenever you need to with this beautiful journal.• Keep a note of important dates and...

Rejuvenate your body care with 75 organic and all-natural recipes you can make at home for a greener and healthier you.Commercially bought soaps and shampoos are jam-packed with harmful chemicals that you might want to avoid, but buying organic...

The long-awaited new book from the authors of the blockbuster bestseller Spotless. It's almost a decade since the original Spotless took Australia by storm, selling more than half a million copies and launching Shannon Lush as Australia's most trusted...

Whether you’re a minimalist or someone who takes pleasure in her collections, we all yearn for an unencumbered life in a home that makes us happy. Remodelista: The Art of Order shows us how, with more than 100 simple and stylish tips, each clearly...

When people first move into a home, they have grand visions for the space. But time passes, and drawers, closets, and cabinets fill until there’s no space to put things away. Suddenly, everyday tasks are dreadful. A few years later, when people look...

A charming checklist for decluttering.In this whimsical yet practical guide to sorting through the too-much-stuff of modern life, the premise is simple: on each page, a delightful illustration of items that fill our lives—novelty ice cube trays, a manual...

Organization meets mindfulness! Take note of the little things with this set of sticky pads, from Flow, the brand that celebrates creativity, mindfulness, and the pleasures of paper.   Includes: 9 illustrated stick note pads in tabs of...

This one goes out to all the #plannerlife fanatics. The stationery experts at Pipsticks+Workman – Mo Vázquez and Workman Publishing’s super-trendy gift program – know the pure joy (not to mention organisational prowess) that comes from personalising a...

In Relaxed Living, Happy Home Atlanta Bartlett and Dave Coote present a practical and inspirational guide to creating a home that works perfectly for everyone who lives in it.They start at the very beginning, explaining the key elements at the heart of...

Suited to those who are interested in taking their first steps towards a zero waste lifestyle, this book is a lighter, easier approach to Erin’s first and more in depth book, Waste Not. Also makes a great gift for friends and family looking for...

Organize and style your home using home-decorating and organization expert Katie Holdefehr’s modern, chic, and simple-to-achieve design tips and tricks.Whether giving a studio apartment a makeover to maximize every inch of space for storage, creating a...

The best-selling eco-friendly guides to cleaning and organizing your home, from Toni Hammersley of a Bowlful of Lemons, together in one box set.Organize your house in a clutter-free, design-conscious way with practical storage solutions, secret ...

Find over a thousand ideas for organizing and storing everything but the kitchen sink in this amazing book. 1001 Ideas for Kitchen Organization is a comprehensive resource for professional organizers, homeowners, and designers looking for ways to...

Real Life Organizing offers clutter free storage solutions and advice that can help you create a Pinterest worthy home on a small budget. Learn how to organise your home, simplify life, and have more time for the things you love. Organisational expert...

100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more!This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and...

In today's busy world, it's tough to keep things neat and tidy around the house. Not to worry; if you have a hook and some yarn, Nola Heidbrederand Linda Pietz have 30 stylish baskets you can crochet to calm your mind and bring some order to your home...

Grow your own vegetables and herbs, indoors in containers or outside in a garden. Raise chickens or goats. Build a beehive. Make your own nontoxic cleaning sprays. And more!Gehring's books on country living have sold more than 500,000 copies. In this...

Make sanitisers, soaps, and all your personal hygiene needs to kill germs and keep you virus-free! These days, dangerous viruses can suddenly become rampant, and bacteria can adapt to become antibiotic-resistant, so we must be extra-vigilant...

A beautiful and modern handbook for keeping home the natural way.Home is a haven, a place of refuge. But did you know it might be making you sick? If your home is cluttered, overwhelming, and full of chemicals, it's time to detox. The Modern...

Full of sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions for essential skills such as building a chicken coop are interspersed with country lore and old-fashioned tips and tricks. Good Living Guide to...

Sondra Lender is a Professional Organizer and also a mom of two young boys. She has worked with hundreds of clients since 2010, organizing everything from homes to businesses. She knows firsthand about the daily challenge of keeping a family home in...

Grow twice the fruits and vegetables in half the space on the farm, in the backyard, or in your window! The Ultimate Guide to Soil begins with a personality test for your soil, then uses that information to plan a course of action for...

*Shortlisted for Australian Book Design Awards 2021: Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover* Like many people, Beth Terry didn't think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after...

Free yourself and your family from the f*cking clutter before you croak!Inspired by The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, Nobody Wants Your Sh*t will light a fire under your untidy ass with humor and helpful organizing tips that you'll actually want...

A practical back-to-basics guide to achieving food security and financial independence.What if you could really raise or grow all the food your family needs? In this fully illustrated book, you'll learn to create an autonomous, diversified, and...

Simple, practical, and inspiring tips for cooking, baking, and cleaning!The kitchen isthe 'hub' of any house. With this compilation of helpful hints, you can keep it running smoothly.Find hacks for the care of kitchen appliances,...

Over 1,000 Tips for Gardening, Country Cooking, Saving Money, DIY Cleaning Solutions, Home Remedies, and More!This comprehensive collection of practical tips covers all aspects of keeping a country home, from painting a wall to removing wine stains,...

Originally published as twenty-four newspaper columns from 1859 to 1861, Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is many things, but it is first and foremost a guide to managing a household during the nineteenth century.Beeton wrote, "As with the...

Rental Style, which doubles as a decor piece and handy design guide, shows readers how to decorate and organise small, rented spaces on a budget. The book will cover all home development stages from searching for a rental home to decorating and...

Easy and Effective Strategies to Jumpstart a Sustainable, Waste-Free LifestyleWe have a worldwide trash epidemic. The average American disposes of 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, and our landfills hold 254 million tons of waste.What if there were a...

Homesteading From Scratch is for people who want to do things differently-the type of people who want to eat real food, grow herbs, make cheese, raise baby animals, hunt mushrooms, pick blackberries, unschool their children, can jelly, ferment kraut,...

Packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, time-honored wisdom, and both illustrations and photographs, this might just be the most comprehensive guide to back to basics living ever published. Fans of Back to Basics, Homesteading, and...

Over 200,000 copies sold-fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more.Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills-the kind employed by our forefathers-and adapt them for a better...

Mini farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre-and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job...

This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Readers will learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple...

Are you and your family self-reliant? Will you be able to provide for them and keep them safe? The best way to prepare for the future is not through fancy tools and gadgets-it's experience and knowledge that will best equip you to handle the unexpected...

A modern classic for a new generation looking for environmentally friendly, thrifty, tried and true solutions for tackling everyday household tasks. Red wine on the carpet? Coffee stain on your white t-shirt? Candlewax on the tablecloth? This book will...

Make your home more mindful and discover a more considered way to decorate with this beautifully presented guide by acclaimed interior stylist, Joanna Thornhill. We often think of mindfulness in relation to meditation, but our homes and interior design...

"If you are looking for a tangible, stress-free guide to protect you and your family from everyday environmental toxins, THIS IS IT!" -Dr. Vivian Chen, MD, founder of Plateful Health and Detox Right With all the time spent at home in recent years, you...

Being in charge of your own life, and making decisions based on what you want to do rather than what you have to do, gives you a rare kind of contentment and shows you that every ordinary day offers magnificent opportunities.' Award-winning blogger...