A Field Guide to the Fungi of Australia by Tony Young; Kay Smith (Illustrator)

$39.99 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

This beautiful book highlights an often overlooked, but remarkable, aspect of our natural world: Australia's fungi. Many are brightly coloured, some fluorescent, some are elegant, others squat, some fragrant, more still are highly toxic. This field guide showcases many of these species in all their sple ndour. ...Show more

Home Is Where You Make It by Vanderzeil, Geneva

$35.00 AUD

Category: Interior Design

Add style and individuality to your home with DIY, even when you're renting. Home Is Where You Make It channels the simplicity and beauty of modern living. This is your room-by-room guide to making and DIYing your own place, with hundreds of clever styling hacks, repurposing and upstyling ideas, and eas y weekend projects to create the home of your dreams. ...Show more

Wild Mushrooms - The Beginner's Foraging Guide by DORIS POZZI

$19.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

A beginner’s outline on foraging, indentifying and using common wild mushrooms and fungi. Tips on how to use them in the kitchen & avoid poisoning yourself and loved ones.

Edible Weeds and Garden Plants of Melbourne by DORIS POZZI

$19.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Edible Weeds and Garden Plants of Melbourne details over 25 of the most common edible weeds and garden plants found across Australia, the UK, Europe and the US.  The edible weeds can be found across all urban areas of Australia including Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Perth!  Colour p hotos are provided for easy identification, the nutritional and medicinal properties, and, how to prepare them in the kitchen.   ...Show more

Garden Voices: Australian Designers - Their Stories by Anne Latreille

$9.99 AUD

$59.95 (83% off)

Category: Home and Garden

This book is unique. It is the first book to embark on a study of designers who demonstrate a deep understanding of the Australian environment and an ability to work creatively with it. It provides an invaluable overview of twenty three key garden and landscape designers of Australia. Anne Latreille tra ces their life stories and achievements. They comprise historic figures, current practitioners, some well-known, others much less so. They work in lush tropical forests and chilly mountains, arid deserts and rolling countryside, beside rivers and the sea, in close packed inner cities and spreading suburbs. They fit each garden design to its place, respecting the natural landscape character. In this way, this book takes us on a journey -- a search for meaning and significance. New and exciting, it reveals a clear and panoramic vision. It moves us inside the designers hearts and minds and shows how Australian energy and imagination can be transformative, inspiring and progressive. With research extending over fourteen years, it is a vital reference for anyone -- from professional designer to garden lover -- who seeks a broader understanding of designing gardens in Australia, now and in the future. ...Show more

Green Clean: It won't cost the Earth! by Caroline Leslie

$19.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Discover Easy Ways To Replace Your 'Normal' Household Cleaning Products That Are Laced With Toxic Chemicals If you truly want to improve the health of your home and family, International Author & Entrepreneur Caroline Leslie will show you how. Written in a fun, factual and easy-to-follow manner, Cle an Green will not only teach you how to become more eco~friendly and chemical~aware, it will also help you to gain a great sense of achievement, contribution and satisfaction along the way. A fantastic, handy and practical guide that every home should have! Inside You'll Learn...-Exactly which toxic chemicals are in your "conventional" cleaners and what they are doing to you and your family's health -Why cleaning GREEN is better for you, your home and the environment -How to save $$$ by buying green cleaning ingredients and products -The "GREEN 14" - 14 key ingredients to achieving your Green Cleaning status -"Home Maid" recipes for you to make your own green cleaning products -Proven green cleaning methods to help restore and rejuvenate your home and how to achieve optimal indoor air quality -Practical, eco-friendly tips and hints to maintain a thoroughly green home and lifestyle ...Show more

The Way Mum Does It by Alexandra O'Brien

$9.99 AUD

$24.99 (60% off)

Category: Home and Garden

Trusted household advice from real women and contributors to the hugely popular Over 60 online community. THE WAY MUM DOES IT is a jam-packed collection of household and life advice - a handy go-to guide for tips on everything from health and beauty, cleaning and repairs, to travel and gardening, food a nd finances. Like having your mum or your grandmother or best friend at your side, these pearls of wisdom will guide and rescue you with ingenious, practical and simple-to-follow advice.Do you need to know how to keep an avocado fresh for up to six months? Freeze food safely? Get a nasty stain out of your carpet? Discover the secret uses of bicarb? Make your own beauty products with common household ingredients? Use Epsom salts effectively in your garden? Repair friendships and deal with tricky in-laws?Reflecting real-life experiences and advice from Australian women - including tips from some of our favourite personalities - THE WAY MUM DOES IT is the book that everyone will want on their bookshelf. Forget Google, the answers are here! ...Show more

Trees Of Victoria & Adjoining Areas by Leon Costermans

$17.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Since Trees of Victoria was first produced in 1966, it has become widely known as the standard introduction to the Victorian bush, having sold over 160,000 copies. The Fifth Edition (1994) was a complete revision, and was greatly enlarged to describe some 250 species of trees and tall shrubs - almost al l that are native to Victoria, southern NSW (including the ACT) and South Australia eastwards from Adelaide. This sixth edition (2006) incorporates taxonomic and other changes made since 1994, updated distribution information, and reference to additional species, some being recently described. With its clear illustrations, accurate descriptions and compact format, the book will continue to meet the needs of beginners in the bush exploration, as well as botanical students, land managers and conservationists. ...Show more

100 20th-Century Gardens and Landscapes by Twentieth Century Society

$19.99 AUD

$45.00 (55% off)

Category: Home and Garden

Discover 100 of the most beautiful English gardens and landscapes designed since 1914, courtesy of the Twentieth Century Society. See how English gardens and landscapes have evolved over the last century, and how they complement buildings of the period. These stunning examples, chosen by the Twentieth C entury Society, move from the Arts and Crafts garden and the garden city, through landscapes created for mid-century housing, to the low-maintenance gardens of the 1980s and recent trends for community and wildlife gardens. An introduction covers the development of garden and landscape design in the last 100 years, while short essays discuss the influence of key C20 English gardens, like Sissinghurst and Great Dixter; those who pioneered new plants and planting styles (such as Margery Fish, Beth Chatto, and Piet Oudolf); and landscapes in housing developments, new towns, and public spaces. ...Show more

The Patterned Interior by Greg Natale; Martyn Lawrence Bullard (Foreword by)

$59.99 AUD

$110.00 (45% off)

Category: Interior Design

At once sophisticated and full of robust character, Greg Natale's interiors are renowned around the world for creating environments that traverse serenity and flamboyance. By studying a project from the broadest point of view down to its smallest detail, Natale successfully transforms any space - deftly marrying contemporary accents with vintage pieces through his signature interplay of pattern and design. In The Patterned Interior, an exquisite new photographic monograph by Rizzoli, Natale's unique insights are accompanied by stunning images by acclaimed photographer Anson Smart. The Patterned Interior guides readers through a diverse selection of residences that showcase Natale's exploration of the power and importance of pattern. Featuring photographs that span multiple countries and myriad styles, The Patterned Interior tours a rural Oklahoma property that redefines contemporary rustic cool, a unique surf-inspired penthouse overlooking one of Australia's most sought-after beaches, a Midtown New York pied-à-terre that exudes sophistication, a vast country estate in southern Australia with a distinct rock vibe, and a light-filled city apartment in one of Sydney's most iconic buildings. With a forward by Martyn Lawrence Bullard, a star of the hit series Million Dollar Decorators, and a regular on the AD100 and Elle Decor's A-List, The Patterned Interior is destined to become a classic among both interior design professionals and fans of decoration. ...Show more

Insta-Style for Your Living Space - Inventive Ideas to Create a Stylish Home by Joanna Thornhill

$24.99 AUD

Category: Interior Design

Refurb your living space with budget-friendly upcycling ideas to create a home that is as chic as your wardrobe. Here you'll discover standout interiors and the secrets behind how their inhabitants created their luxurious feel without breaking the bank.   Refurb your living space with budget-friendly upcycling ideas to create a home that is as chic as your wardrobe. Here you'll discover standout interiors and the secrets behind how their inhabitants created their luxurious feel without breaking the bank.   The homes featured here range from apartments to small houses, but all reveal the stunning effects of using space creatively and clever storage solutions that can double up as unique displays. Plus, learn how simple upcycling offers affordable furnishing options while avoiding unnecessary waste, making your interiors eco-friendly, too.   Whatever your living situation--renting with little freedom to decorate or make alterations, house sharing with only a small space to call your own, a first-time buyer with limited funds for renovation, or even simply time-poor and looking for quick fixes--this fantastic new edition of the previously published Home For Now can help. Insta-style for Your Living Space offers both inspiration and practical advice, and shows how a home that not only looks good but which is every bit your personal style is easily within your reach. ...Show more

Shabby Chic: Sumptuous Settings and Other Lovely Things by Rachel Ashwell

$9.99 AUD

$34.99 (71% off)

Category: Interior Design

In this beautiful, practical decorating and entertaining guide, Rachel Ashworth reveals how to make any event a special occasion using her signature Shabby Chic style. In this beautiful, accessible book, Rachel Ashwell, the founder of Shabby Chic, shows that sophisticated entertaining doesn't have to be expensive. Transforming the every day into an elegant extravaganza is a matter of inspiration and imagination, and in Shabby Chic: Sumptuous Settings and Other Lovely Things she offers exciting ideas to help you create beautiful settings of your own. Travel with her to unique locations, including a Chinese grocery store, a local antique mall, a flower market, and flea markets, to search for the perfect accents that will give an event unexpected charm-without breaking the bank. Rachel teaches you how to use inexpensive treasures to enhance ordinary objects-from adding a coat of paint or some ribbons or flowers to decorate chairs and tables, to creating a themed meal, to easily customizing menus and place cards. When it comes to setting a scene, Rachel is an expert, and in Shabby Chic: Sumptuous Settings and Other Lovely Things she offers easy how-to advice for making any occasion extraordinary, including baby showers, weddings, birthday parties, bar mitzvahs, and even old-fashioned family dinners. Illustrated with 200 full-color photos throughout. ...Show more