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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated, Includes Ontario Families From Kent County And Prince Edward County. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 255 p. illus. 25 cm ; OCLC: 1748238 ; LC: TT197; TT195; Dewey: 684 ; tan textured boards in pictorial dustjacket ; remains of label on dustjacket ; rather scare title ; the "modern" element features lots of populux items, with illustrations ; Partial Contents : Home accessories you can build on your kitchen table -- Dressing table has curtain pole for legs -- Wall table -- Sewing stand -- Chandelier -- Glass bricks top off modern coffee table -- For solid comfort build this magazine and smoking stand -- Update that old upright -- $3 chair fits growing child -- How to build a modern desk -- These lamps are never in your way -- Cozy corner only costs $17 -- Hand tools make Chinese shelf -- Wall desk built in half a day -- Sliding bottom empties this wastebasket fast -- Labor-saving kitchen designed by doctors -- Built-up lamp and box show -- Deep carving effect -- Overhauling old clocks -- Glass-top coffee table with magazine bins -- Hand tools build modern table -- Bookcase includes a desk shelf -- Chippendale tilt-top table -- Veneered table uses little wood -- Rush for your seats -- Hammer and saw furniture -- Radio-phono combination doubles as bedside table -- Make-up mirror shows good craftsmanship -- Double-deck table has removable tray -- Junior desk chair has folding leaf -- Plastic pulls give the modern touch -- How to seal a finish into wood -- Wire-grille doors frame small cabinet -- Glass-topped desk conceals typewriter -- Checking up on radiator valves -- Spice cabinet -- Child's wardrobe is a hammer and saw job -- Whatnot shelf lighted from below -- Turning radiators into furniture -- Pilgrim trestle table and benches -- Storage units you can move -- You can make a lamp out of simple things -- Furniture from the forest -- King-size curtain pole for two bits -- Treasure hunting in your attic -- Coffee table in the modern trend -- Ketchup bottle and tin can supply materials for candle holder -- Give your child a towel rack -- Two-way lamp displays marine carving -- This stool goes modern -- Tilt-top table fits small space -- Chest faced in matched veneer -- Jigsaw stand -- Novel corner cupboard holds belts -- Modern radio-phono cabinet build around old set -- Caring for plastics -- Roll front closes cutlery cabinet -- Wrought-iron tables have glass tops -- Sweetening the sour notes -- Old and new tuckaway tables fold flat -- Over-sink cabinet adds extra shelves -- Typing table has built-in wastebasket -- Thumb indexing phone book with engraving tool -- Early American Grandfather Clock -- Bunny cradle for the nursery -- Pine washstand holds phono-radio -- Between-windows cabinet holds fine china -- Do it up brown or blond -- Radio combination in a wall bookcase -- Handy shelves fit odd corners -- Guests will admire these dragon candlesticks -- Colonial plant stand scaled to table size -- It's easy to use our mixer now -- Tobacco box holds pipes -- Three antique benches -- Modern desk chair is economy job -- You can make brass handles for furniture -- Eighteenth century pedestal stand -- Brass-railed clock shelf -- Hanging shelves put up in one evening -- Kitchen chopping block of maple -- Base raises portable typewriter -- Every child needs a desk -- Breadbox stove cooks with infrared rays -- Cabinets are hand-tool job -- Bedside table has picture-frame door -- Initials form massive book ends -- Tray chest keeps toys together -- Need a clothes hamper? -- How to put plastic tops on tables -- Graceful ladder-back chairs -- Early American Windsor Table -- Bamboo + boxes = bookcases -- Bookcase-desk -- Occasional cabinet with reeded doors -- Novel wall cabinet has swinging drawers -- Bed workbench -- It's fun to fix a sewing machine -- Dual-purpose music stand -- We built a family theater in our living room -- Need furniture? Try shiplap -- Globe Standard in the Duncan Phyfe style -- How to repair your own rugs -- Old wicker chairs with upholstery -- Repair that broken blind yourself ; great ideas ; VG/G. Book.…

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. loose-leaf publication ; OCLC: 857088726 ; a six-year run of Old-House Journal, as well as The Old-house journal catalog, with the indexes ; lists over 5,873 products and services, with 525 companies for the renovation of old houses; many articles on various aspects of repair; laid the groundwork for the Public Television series This Old House ; V.1.no.1: An old house is a way of life -- Protecting the aging house from winter storms -- Old-house living: a brownstone in Brooklyn -- Sealing leaky windows -- Quieting a steam heating system -- Flat-roof repairs -- Chimney check up -- The care and cleaning of brass -- v.1 no.2 : Refinishing secrets of the Boston Museum -- The bare-brick mistake -- A schoolhouse in Kentucky -- Restoring shutters to working order -- Surgery on a staircase -- Coping with frayed electrical wiring -- How to apply French polish -- Recipes for reviving and refinishing - v.1 no.3: Teaching a fireplace not to smoke -- Antique wallpaper preservation -- Victorian gingerbread -- The art of getting plastered -- Tricks an old farmhouse plays -- Matching bricks & mortar -- How to paint a cathedral -- v.2 no1: Catalog your house's secret passages -- An Italian villa in New Haven -- Major repairs to plaster surfaces -- Tips on mixing plaster -- Mansard roof -- A tale of two houses -- V.2 no 2: How to stiffen sagging floors -- Let's do away with incentives that destroy old houses -- Wallpaper in old houses -- Where to buy 18th & 19th century wallpaper -- Duplicating plaster cornices -- v.2 no.3: Duplicate plaster castings -- A townhouse in Trenton -- Parts of a staircase -- One way to insulate an attic -- V.2, no4: Drapes & curtains -- A family plantation in Virginia -- Don't get stuck with the wrong glue -- Restoration of sandstone -- V.2 no.5: Repairing old floors -- Octagon house on the Hudson -- Re-creating period window hangings -- v.2 no 6: A restorationist view of windows -- Queen Anne revival in Little Rock -- Repairing & restoring marble mantels -- Windows and parts -- V.2 no 7: Sawn wood ornament -- Pre-Civil War manse on the Mississippi -- Mix your own wood stain -- Running electrical wire -- Restoring and re-creating sawn wood ornament -- V.2 no 8: Eastlake -- Preserving woodworkers' art in St. Paul -- Restoring rotted window sills -- Improved process for stripping paint -- v.2 no 9: Tips on stripping shutters -- in Covington, a riverboat captain's Italianate berth -- restoring a frame house exterior -- Early American roof types -- Victorian fancywork -- v.2 no 10: The domestic architecture of Downing -- Caustic approach to exterior paint removal -- A restored federal enclave in Charlestown -- Detecting & defeating rot in old houses -- Downing on color -- v.2 no2 : Preventing rot in old houses -- How to make an electrical survey -- Greek revival on the immigrant road -- Classical orders -- v.2 no12: Refinishing old wood floors -- Insuring townhouse living -- Tips on sanding -- Painted floors -- Cast iron fences -- Care & repair of ornamental iron -- v.3 no 1: Early American wall stenciling -- Restored, a hopeless 1865 Greek revival ruin -- Selecting the best floor finish -- v.3 no2: Victorian stenciling -- Romanesque revival in the inner city -- The case against removing paint from brick masonry -- Replacing a clapboard -- Glenview, Victorian stencilling restored -- v.3 no.3 Restoring old brickwork -- Dual personality saves 1836 Greek revival -- The peril in Portland cement -- Marbelizing -- v.3 no 4: Late Victorian art movement -- Reviving a 1745 stone manor -- Selecting & using chemical paint removers -- v.3 no5: Greek revival decoration -- Self-supporting shingle-style seaside cottage -- v.3 no6: How to grain like a professional -- Moving story of a Swiss chalet in Vermont -- Locating buried artifacts -- v.3, no.7 : Lighting for the old house -- Victorian charm re-created in San Francisco -- Rebuiling fireplaces -- Adapting old fixtures -- Fancy butt shingles; etc ; a mark or two; else FINE. Book.…