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• BOX-MAKING BASICS: DESIGN, TECHNIQUE, PROJECTS

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• TRADITIONAL BOX PROJECTS

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• TILING: THE INSTALLATION HANDBOOK

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• THE HOMESTEAD BUILDER

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  This classic, first published in 1872, is filled with handy advice on the best ways to plan and construct dwellings in any location using wood, earth and gravel. Includes log cabins, houses, slab houses, frame houses, and guidance on building an outdoor oven, a cellar, fence posts and gates. This was originally titled "The Immigrant Builder" and aimed at those headed west to homestead.