Life Under a Leaky Roof: Reflections on Home, Tools, and Life Outside Big City
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Mt. Baker Books [2094444], Bellingham, WA, U.S.A.
This Book Shows Very Minimal Rubbing On The Covers W/Minimal Edge Wear. The Pages Are Very Tight And Very Clean, We Found No Marks. Our Books Are Guaranteed And Ship The Day They're Sold; From Bellingham, Wa. In The Usa. "Don't Just Recycle - Re-Use!".

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business,business and investing,contemporary,crafts and hobbies,home and garden,home improvement and design,home repair,house and home,how-to and home improvements,humor, In the mid-1980s, New Yorker staff writer David Owen saw a 200-year-old Connecticut farmhouse and decided to buy it. When he took his wife back to see it, he couldn't find it at first; when he did find it, his wife hated it. They bought it anyway, "probably because we believed that abandoning a house it had taken me a single morning to discover would be more complicated and inconvenient than living for the rest of our lives in a place we didn't like." Fortunately, "as luck would have it, both the house and the town have turned out to be pretty much exactly right for us." It's certainly done wonders both for the naturally handy Owen's repair skills and for his writing career; his first book, The Walls Around Us, was a delightfully chatty guide to real home repair for people with leaky roofs and carpenter ants. Owen returns to a subject clearly close to his heart with Around the House: Reflections on Life Under a Roof. Musing on the necessity of learning by doing, he writes, "The problem that most do-it-yourselfers face is how to acquire home-improvement skills without ruining the home they are trying to improve." Owen's answer is self-apprenticeship--he learned how to build a porch by repairing his front steps, how to measure and cut rafters by building playground equipment, and practiced his roofing skills by building a house for his cat. "With a few more years of practice," he says, "I'll be ready to approach my wife with an idea I've been mulling over l.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, HPB-Diamond, TX, Dallas, [RE:4].
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Around-the-House~~David-Owen, Around the House: Reflections on Life under the Roof, Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Mt. Baker Books, WA, Bellingham, [RE:4].
Book, Soft cover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks - Green Earth, OR, Portland, [RE:5].
Softcover.

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