The Book of Home Restoration: Traditional Skills and Techniques to Restore and Improve Your Home - Hardcover

McGowan, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0831745401 ISBN 13: 9780831745400

Publisher: Gallery Books, 1985

Synopsis

Describes techniques needed to restore, maintain or enhance any house or garden, old or new, including recipes to make your own polishes, stains, glues, putties, and plaster

About this title

Synopsis

This practical DIY manual provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform tasks around the home and garden, using time-honoured skills and materials that will ensure long-lasting results and craftsmanship, enabling readers to gain the knowledge and expertise necessary to produce quality results. The tasks described include mending leaded-light stained-glass windows, veneering, re-upholstering, repairing wooden furniture and thatched roofs, dry stone walling and hedging. All the techniques described are those needed to maintain older houses, gardens and possessions although the book concentrates on tasks and jobs around the home and garden that remain relevant to the modern householder. Specialist tools are illustrated and described, and original recipes are provided to make polishes, stains, glues, putties and plaster.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0831745401
• ISBN 13: 9780831745400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Dubern Roger