Home Building

Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a comprehensive manual for designing, building, and maintaining water-harvesting systems for the warm and cold climates of the world. Presenting design considerations and approaches for the most common household rainwater supply scenarios.

Over half a million listeners have joined the journey of Instagram sensations Ashley and Dino Petrone. Through their popular online community Arrows and Bow, Ashley and Dino share their adventures, mishaps, and joys of building a life together using an unexpected element: design.

If you wish to have a sustainable, organic, self-sufficient lifestyle, we will help you achieve your dream! You can turn your backyard into a sustaining mini or micro farm instead of another well-manicured oasis of grass for the neighboring dogs.

Author, best-selling course instructor, licensed real estate broker, and consultant Symon He lays out the simplest, most practical and straight forward path for new investors eager to ink their first deals and start their journey to building a real estate empire. With over 300,000 students in nearly 180 countries, Symon knows exactly what new investors need to get right, what they should avoid, and how they can protect themselves from risk while breaking into the real estate market on their own terms.

Get off-the-grid and become self-sufficient without leaving your backyard! Cultivating a sustainable homestead off the grid has become more and more popular as many people are searching for alternatives to the trappings of modern society. Off-Grid Living and the Self-Sufficient Backyard is your complete guide to transitioning off the grid. It doesn't matter if you are just getting started or are already an experienced homesteader. This audiobook will serve as your guide for creating your backyard mini-farm and planning for your off-grid life.

If 20 percent of the population implemented half the solutions in this book, it would solve the biggest global problems. All without writing to politicians, joining protests, signing petitions, or being angry at the people that are causing the problems. Good solutions are often different from conventional environmental wisdom. The average American adult has a carbon footprint of 30 tons per year. Replacing a petroleum car with an electric car will cut 2 tons. But if you live in a cold climate and you switch from electric heat to a rocket mass heater, you will cut 27 tons!

In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time—unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two quickly began spending weekends together, talking philosophy, Catholic mysticism, and, of course, architecture over wine-soaked picnic lunches.

This audiobook will motivate you to get in the best shape of your life, regardless of age. Don’t worry if you’re just starting out, we’ve covered that. If you’ve been active in fitness and strength training before–but it’s been years–we’ll get you back on track.

There are many factors involved in our relationships with the dogs in our homes, and all of these things can influence that relationship for either good or bad. In this book, explore the different areas of life with dogs and how we can make sure that we and our dogs are living together in the best way possible. Learn about the different elements of canine life that can affect the bond between human and dog, and what we can do to help our dogs be happy and have our best lives together.

Horse ownership provides companionship, stress relief, and increased happiness…but these things only happen when you’re able to form a complete bond with your horse. When you have that foundational relationship in place, the way you’re able to train and care for your horse completely opens up. Your increased sense of confidence leads to a mutual respect between you and your horse…and this gives you the control you need in order to have fun together–while ensuring you both remain safe.

Get a killer fat burning workout from home, even if you’ve never thrown a punch in your life. Did you know you can burn more than 400 calories with just 30 minutes of boxing? That’s twice as much as running on the treadmill! And more than swimming, rowing, or lifting weights. With these simple to follow audio workouts, you don’t need any training. No special equipment - just you and your hands - and you can do the workouts in your living room.

Picture this: You wake up, grab your phone, and open Instagram, tap the plus icon at the bottom of the screen, select a photo, add a filter and a caption, tap "publish", and you call it a day. Thirty minutes later, you get a notification from PayPal: "Someone sent you $500". Would you like your average "workday" to look like this? See, contrary to what you believe, you don’t need to be an artist, a comedian, or a particularly attractive individual to get paid on Instagram.

Begin your journey to sustainable living, even if you've never held a tool in your life! Are you ready to embrace off-grid living but feel overwhelmed by where to start? Do you dream of gaining independence from modern utilities or preparing for emergencies with confidence? This audiobook is your gateway to self-reliance and sustainability.

What the world’s best microgreen growers know, that you don’t...Maybe you’re over 40 years old and starting to become concerned about your health? Maybe you're just intrigued to know what microgreens are, and how fun they could be to grow indoors? Or maybe you’ve attempted to grow microgreens already, but you struggle to cultivate strong, prosperous plants which germinate properly, and grow without getting completely covered in mold. Have no idea where to even begin? Become the microgreen expert in your local area and build a wildly successful green-eco-empire.

With increased demand for hybrid and fully remote work styles, most firms understand that some form of distance work is here to stay—and have put some remote protocols in place. But many companies either see the shift to remote work as a threat to their culture and management style, or they just don’t know how to make the transition. It’s time to take advantage of the many opportunities remote work presents. This book will tell you how.

We are living through a global catastrophe. Buildings affect how we feel, moment by moment, day by day. They have the power to lift us up and make us feel awestruck, playful, safe, and inspired, just as they can make us feel alienated and sad. But many of the places where we live, work, learn, and heal have become monotonous and disposable. We’re surrounded by cheap, boring buildings that make people stressed, sick, and unhappy. In short, much of our world has been crafted in a way that is hostile to human experience.

Raising kids and building families is tough these days. We live in a broken society that celebrates sin and minimizes family relationships. Is it possible for Christian parents in today's society to raise emotionally healthy kids who love God and are equipped to do God's will for their lives? Yes. Emphatically, yes. God has entrusted you, as a parent, to care for and raise your children for him, and he has given you the resources you need for the job.

In this Tiny House: A Beginner's Guide to Minimalist Living, Building Your Small Home Guide, you'll learn all that you need to know about minimalist living and the tiny house movement. You'll find out how to get started on building your tiny home, frequently asked questions, and even whether or not you should hire a professional to build your tiny home. Tiny House: A Beginner's Guide to Minimalist Living, Building Your Small Home Guide will provide valuable resources on what supplies you'll need, where to buy tiny home kits, and where to find free tiny house plans. With helpful suggestions about how to get started and what material options you have, this guide will teach you everything you need to know to get started building your tiny home within your budget today.

SOI: Building A Real Estate Agent's Sphere of Influence training manual is for those real estate agents wanting to move from a mere real estate practice to a systematized real estate business with the control and mastery of your results. Regardless of your specialty, location or client base, we’ll show you how to take back control of your ability to generate a predictable number of closed transactions month after month. We’ll show you how to grow your results year after year, and do it with no gaps in productivity or slumps in transaction activity.

Building your own chicken coop could be the first step to a satisfying hobby farming that could lead to healthier living and save you some dollars at the grocery store. There are many possible ways to plan, configure, and build a chicken coop, and that is the primary burden of this audiobook: to teach you all you need to know as a beginner in this exciting endeavor.