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Un'infinità di oggetti di ogni tipo ci sommergono all'interno di abitazioni e uffici sempre più piccoli e ci soffocano, col risultato che non troviamo mai quello che davvero ci serve.

An inspirational guide to fighting clutter and sorting out your space, based on the bestselling BBC book and TV series. Clutter can be a huge problem for many of us. We yearn to live in a perfectly-ordered home, but more often than not we find ourselves drowning in a sea of 'stuff'. Not only is...

A luminous space is restorative and nurturing. It's a place that inspires you, helps you achieve your goals, and ignites your personal power. This book will teach you how to create luminous spaces using the wisdom of the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. These natural elements will give you a stronger, deeper connection to nature and promote more joy and peace in your life.

From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years.

The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out. In The Ecotechnic Future John Michael Greer alerts the listener to possible changes future generations may face as these dwindling fuel supplies lead first to a deindustrial age, then to a society which salvages the remnants of our current plenty, and eventually to a time in which people may learn to live in balance with the environment: an ecotechnic society.

"Sorglos Bauen" ist ein Ratgeber, der Ihnen für Ihr Bauvorhaben wertvolle Tipps gibt und zum stressfreien Errichten des eigenen Hauses hilft...

Through beautiful designs and imagery, LA LA LOVELY invites readers to find their true identity where there is brokenness, discover the love of God, and design their own special place of beauty. Author Trina McNeilly has been blogging for nearly a decade. While she spent her days sharing beauty...

Sie sind genervt von dem Chaos in Ihren vier Wänden? Die to-do Liste im Haus wird immer länger? Fehlt Ihnen die Motivation endlich mal wieder richtig Ordnung zu schaffen? Manchmal braucht man einen kleinen Schubs, um aktiv zu werden. Dieses Hörbuch hilft Ihnen dabei, Ihre Unordnung anzugehen und gibt Ihnen die richtigen Tipps, um die neue Ordnung auch langfristig beizubehalten. Darüber hinaus erhalten Sie im Rahmen dieser Premium-Doppelausgabe auch "Simplify your life - Familie: Der perfekte Ratgeber für das tägliche Familien Chaos!" mit den besten Tipps für ein entspanntes, geordnetes und harmonisches Familienleben.

Wer aufräumt, ist nur zu faul zum Suchen, sagt man leichthin. Doch jeder, der schon einmal händeringend etwas ganz Entscheidendes stundenlang gesucht hat, wird wissen, wie viel Wahrheit darin steckt: Ordnung ist das halbe Leben. Sicher erfordert auch sie einen gewissen Zeitaufwand, doch der ist lächerlich gering im Vergleich zu dem, was einem dadurch erspart bleiben kann. Räumen Sie auf, wenn Sie im Chaos zu ersticken drohen, und Sie werden sehen, wie gut Ihnen das tut.

Ecological Intelligence argues that "green" labels and recycling programs may do more harm than good by feeding a vital lie, lulling us into the illusion that we are doing enough already while ignoring the adverse impact of the far vaster proportion of what we buy and do.

Wie richtiges Aufräumen Ihr Leben verändert. Kaum jemandem macht es Spaß, aufzuräumen und sich von Dingen zu trennen. Die meisten von uns haben nie gelernt, wirklich Ordnung zu halten. Denn auch beim Aufräumen gibt es den berühmten Jo-Jo-Effekt. Doch mit Marie Kondos bahnbrechender Methode, die auf einfachen Grundsätzen beruht und dabei höchst effektiv ist, wird die Beschäftigung mit dem Gerümpel des Alltags schon mal zu einem Fest.

As the popularity of Feng Shui, the Chinese art of placement, grows, so does the demand to integrate its invaluable principles into our Western culture. On this informative audio program, Terah Kathryn Collins translates the Eastern mysteries of Feng Shui into practical guidelines that can...

“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” —Los Angeles Times The radical search for the simple life in today’s America. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist...

Detouring from the traditional timeline of marriage-kids-house, 26-year-old Vikki Warner skips straight to homeownership. She buys a run-down three-story house in Providence, Rhode Island, and suddenly finds herself responsible for a rotating cast of colorful tenants. Adulthood comes with unforeseen challenges: backed-up sewage, gentrification, global economic downturn. Tenemental is a candid portrait of how sharing space profoundly reshapes our lives, and forces us to grow into ourselves.

Castles in the Air is a beautifully written, autobiographical story of rescuing an ancient mansion. Gwydir Castle was inhabited by ravers and rats until Judy Corbett and her husband Peter Welford found and acquired this 500-year-old house mouldering in the foothills of Snowdonia. Despite the...

Putzt du noch oder lebst du schon? Spontaner Besuch kündigt sich an und die Wohnung sieht aus, als hätte eine Bombe eingeschlagen, das Bad ist nicht geputzt und in der Küche steht jede Menge dreckiges Geschirr? Kein Problem, wenn Sie die Speed-Cleaning-Strategie von Courtenay Hartford kennen! Denn mit ihren cleveren Ideen und innovativen Putztechniken bekommen Sie in nur 8 Minuten Ihre Wohnung sauber.

Packed with advice and solutions to stains, cleaning and household problems for every room in your house, these books were embraced by hundreds and thousands of readers all over Australia. Now, for the first time, both these classic household companions are available in one audio edition. This handy audiobook will see you through many a domestic crisis, and will become a treasured family reference.

Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen.

One of the classic works on interior decoration, Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses offers a comprehensive look at the history and character of turn-of-the-century interior design. Co-written with architect Ogden Codman, Jr., this invaluable reference provides us with numerous keen and practical axioms for house design, such as (1) The better the house, the less need for curtains, and (2) the height of a well-proportioned doorway should be twice its width.

Cada año, más de trescientos mil latinoamericanos llegan a Estados Unidos en busca de nuevas oportunidades y un mejor futuro para ellos y sus familias. Persiguen ese ideal al que muchos nos referimos simplemente como el Sueño Americano. Sin embargo, la inmensa mayoría demora años en aprender las leyes y el sistema estadounidenses, y muchos nunca logran aprovechar todo lo que este país tiene por ofrecer.