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  • Experiments in Modern Living Experiments in Modern Living
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    Experiments in Modern Living

    When a group of brilliant young scientists arrived in Australia's national capital after World War II to take up leading roles in the establishment of national research institutions, they commissioned Australia’s leading architects to design their...
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  • Patina Modern
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    Patina Modern

    A tastemaking couple shares their playbook for creating a home that’s both beautiful and comfortable.   Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzmán are design obsessives who both want the same thing: rooms that are spare yet warm, layered yet clean, current...
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  • Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home
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    Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home

    Low-impact living is about making thoughtful, eco-friendly choices in your home. But being sustainable doesn’t have to mean sacrificing style. That’s where Remodelista comes in. In this comprehensive guide, they decode the secrets to creating a home...
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  • Cabin Tripping
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    Cabin Tripping

    A mountain lodge 5,000 feet up in Washington State’s Cascades mountains, accessible only by skis—or an SUV tricked out with bulldozer-size snow tires. A sleek cabin just 80 minutes from Manhattan, overlooking the property’s pond and 19 acres of woodland...
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  • Living Without Plastic
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    Living Without Plastic

    Every year, the world produces more than 300 million tons of plastic. These products will never break down and will endlessly pollute our oceans, air, land, and food chain. But the good news is that there are many steps, small and large, we can take to...
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  • Remodelista: The Organized Home
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    Remodelista: The Organized Home

    Whether you’re a minimalist or someone who takes pleasure in her collections, we all yearn for an unencumbered life in a home that makes us happy. Remodelista: The Art of Order shows us how, with more than 100 simple and stylish tips, each clearly...
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  • 15-Minute Mindful Meals
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    15-Minute Mindful Meals

    Want to eat healthy? Limited on time? Authors Caleb Warnock and Lori Henderson have teamed up to create 15-Minute Mindful Meals that will help you use natural produce to create filling and satisfying meals.
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    Terrain: The Houseplant Book
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    Terrain: The Houseplant Book

    Terrain’s plant experts travel the world in search of the most unusual and interesting houseplants. In this inspiring and practical guide, they share their favourite specimens: exotic and eclectic ferns, like the skeleton fork, a primitive (and unfussy)...
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  • Remodelista in Maine
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    Remodelista in Maine

    With its elegant simplicity and rugged DIY sensibility, the Maine aesthetic is both evergreen and timely. In this one-of-a-kind book, the Remodelista team offers readers both a guide for the design-minded traveler and a master class in re-creating the...
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    Breaking the Grid

    When a crisis hits, we all wish we could be a little more self-sufficient. With Breaking the Grid, you can learn to live completely off the grid or just be a little more environmentally conscious. In this comprehensive guide, you can find step-by-step...
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    Wabi-Sabi Welcome
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    Wabi-Sabi Welcome

    Wabi-Sabi Welcome applies the basic principles of the wabi-sabi aesthetic to modern entertaining. It’s about being attentive to your guests (listen without being distracted; unplug), creating a welcoming environment (leave the door unlocked; make time to...
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  • Remodelista
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    Remodelista

    Remodelista.com is the go-to, undisputed authority for home design enthusiasts, remodelers, architects, and designers. Unlike sites that cater to all tastes, Remodelista has a singular and clearly defined aesthetic: classic pieces trump designs that are...
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  • Gnome for the Holidays Advent Calendar
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    Gnome for the Holidays Advent Calendar

    A grown-up advent calendar packed with festive cheer and a daily dose of trendy gnomes. Every day of this advent countdown offers a humorous bit of text and a pop-out gnome ornament to hang on the tree or add to your holiday decor.Meet your new holiday...
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  • Home Sweet Home 1,000-Piece Puzzle
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    Home Sweet Home 1,000-Piece Puzzle

    A charmingly illustrated 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle that celebrates home. From Flow, the international brand that celebrates creativity, mindfulness, and the pleasures of paper.
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  • All Good Things Are Wild and Free Sticky Notes
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    All Good Things Are Wild and Free Sticky Notes

    Organization meets mindfulness! Take note of the little things with this set of sticky pads, from Flow, the brand that celebrates creativity, mindfulness, and the pleasures of paper.   Includes: 9 illustrated stick note pads in tabs of...
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  • So. Many. Planner Stickers.
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    So. Many. Planner Stickers.

    This one goes out to all the #plannerlife fanatics. The stationery experts at Pipsticks+Workman – Mo Vázquez and Workman Publishing’s super-trendy gift program – know the pure joy (not to mention organisational prowess) that comes from personalising a...
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  • Guide to Wild Food Foraging
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    Guide to Wild Food Foraging

    The benefits of foraging for food are far and wide. Whether you're looking for ways to become more self-sufficient, save money, or develop healthier habits, this guide is an extensive on-the-go directory of more than 100 profiles for wild plants, herbs,...
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    Heirloom Rooms
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    Heirloom Rooms

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERErin Napier, designer, host of HGTV’s Home Town, and author of Make Something Good Today, returns with a gorgeously illustrated and one-of-a-kind celebration of the homes we live in and love.Our homes are more than an...
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    Embrace Your Space
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    Embrace Your Space

    Organize and style your home using home-decorating and organization expert Katie Holdefehr’s modern, chic, and simple-to-achieve design tips and tricks.Whether giving a studio apartment a makeover to maximize every inch of space for storage, creating a...
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    Best Selling House Plans 4th Edition

    Best-Selling House Plans offers readers 400 of the most successful and sought-after home designs from the top architects and designers across North America.Over 200 gorgeous full-color photographs allow readers to experience homes actually built from the...
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  • Best-Selling 1-Story Home Plans, 5th Edition
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    Best-Selling 1-Story Home Plans, 5th Edition

    f you're planning on building your own one-story dream home, this extensive collection will show you the best-selling and most stylish home designs available today. Updated with brand new plans and prices, Best-Selling 1-Story Home Plans, 5th Edition...
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    Wood Finishing 101, Revised Edition
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    Wood Finishing 101, Revised Edition

    Wood finishing doesn't have to be complicated or confusing. It can be simplified with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, and that's exactly what Wood Finishing 101, Updated Edition provides; no science, no art, just simple directions...
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    Big Book of Small Home Plans, 2nd Edition
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    Big Book of Small Home Plans, 2nd Edition

    Choosing a new house design is exciting, but it’s also difficult. The Big Book of Small Home Plans, 2nd Edition makes it easy! Featuring a catalog of small home designs with all of the amenities homeowners look for in a new home, this...
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    The Home Refresh Collection, from a Bowl Full of Lemons
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    The Home Refresh Collection, from a Bowl Full of Lemons

    The best-selling eco-friendly guides to cleaning and organizing your home, from Toni Hammersley of a Bowlful of Lemons, together in one box set.Organize your house in a clutter-free, design-conscious way with practical storage solutions, secret ...
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    Little House Living
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    Little House Living

    The immensely popular blogger behind Little House Living provides a timeless and “heartwarming guide to modern homesteading” (BookPage) that will inspire you to live your life simply and frugally—perfect for fans of The Pioneer Woman and The Hands-On...
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    Wellness by Design
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    Wellness by Design

    Design your home to optimize your healthy lifestyle with this room-by-room guide from certified kitchen designer and wellness design consultant Jamie Gold. Residential designer Jamie Gold has spent years exploring how simple changes to things like...
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    1001 Ideas for Kitchen Organization
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    1001 Ideas for Kitchen Organization

    Find over a thousand ideas for organizing and storing everything but the kitchen sink in this amazing book. 1001 Ideas for Kitchen Organization is a comprehensive resource for professional organizers, homeowners, and designers looking for ways to...
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    Make Something Good Today
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    Make Something Good Today

    From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because...
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    Upcycle!
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    Upcycle!

    Have a bunch of mason jars in your cupboard but not sure what to do with them? Have some fruit crates laying around? Upcycle is a fun, contemporary project book that will show you how to take a range of common objects, many available cheap or free, and...
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    Small Space Style
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    Small Space Style

    Interior design maven Whitney Leigh Morris makes living in under 400 square feet look elegant and effortless—even with a husband, baby, and two Beagles in the mix. In her debut book, Whitney shares her ideas and practices for...
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    Bob Lang's The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker
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    Bob Lang's The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker

    Demonstrating how woodworkers can approach the complex job of designing and making built-in cabinets for kitchens, family rooms, and home offices, this technical handbook provides meticulously detailed shop drawings, instructions, and hundreds of...
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    Illustrated Cabinetmaking
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    Illustrated Cabinetmaking

    Design and construct furniture that works with the help of the most complete visual guide ever published.Featuring each piece in highly-detailed, exploded drawings and applying time-honored dimensions and ergonomic standards, this comprehensive visual...
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  • Self-Sufficiency: Cheese Making
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    Self-Sufficiency: Cheese Making

    The text covers every aspect of making cheese at home, from the tools and equipment needed and basic recipes to making more complex cheeses and advice on setting up a small cheese business. You do not need to be scientifically trained to make cheese, nor...
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  • Organizing For Dummies
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    Organizing For Dummies

    Organize your office, your home, your life!What’s the favorite four-letter word of people who are less than fully organized? “Help!” So many technological, social, and economic changes affect your life that you need organization just to keep up, let...
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  • Electrical Hazards and Accidents
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    Electrical Hazards and Accidents

    How to prevent electrical hazards in the workplace is the focus of this guide. It spells out proper design, maintenance, and operating procedures for minimizing the risks of electrical fires, accidents, and injuries on the job. Coverage of the latest...
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  • Architectural Woodwork
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    Architectural Woodwork

    Architectural Woodwork Details for Construction Stephen P. Major Ifyou're spending too much time chasing down information onarchitectural woodwork and its many synthetic counterparts--andstill not finding all the answers you need to do the job--you...
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  • Guide to the 1993 National Electrical Code
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    Guide to the 1993 National Electrical Code

    Clear, concise, and easy to follow, this Audel bestseller has been completely updated based on the 1996 Code revisions. Packed with examples and illustrations of every topic, it's ideal for electricians and other construction industry professionals.
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    The Beeswax Workshop

    Transform miraculous beeswax into environmentally friendly household cleaners, personal care products, candles and craftsFeatures over 100 step-by-step recipes, this book presents easy-to-follow recipes that utilize the amazing flexibility of beeswax for...
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    The Prepper's Pocket Guide

    BE PREPARED BE SAFEFrom California earthquakes and Rocky Mountain wildfires to Midwest floods and Atlantic hurricanes, you can't escape that inevitable day when catastrophe strikes your home town - but you can be prepared! Offering a simple DIY approach,...
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    Real Estate Rescue

    Tracy is in the top one percent of real estate sales people worldwide. She is currently ranked 51st in the country by The Wall Street Journal. She has bought, renovated, and sold more than 20 homes in the Western United States. Tracy has worked for 20...
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    Designology

    #1 New Release in Design and Decorating Align With DesignCreate spaces at home and work that align with your personality type and support your goals with this comprehensive science-based guide.Discover a new paradigm:Are you an adventurer or a visionary?...
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    The Crafty Gardener

    100 Ideas, Crafts and How-tos for GardenersFans ofSquare Foot Gardening,Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden,Welcome to the Farm, andCompact Farmswill loveThe Crafty Gardener.Awakening the gardener in all of us:Gardening allows us to live in a much more human...
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    The Going Green Handbook

    Easy, healthy, money-saving DIY ideas for a sustainable lifestyleInspired living for the environment:Make your footprint planet-positive. With the gentle guidance of eco-expert, Alice Mary Alvrez, you can start with baby steps and progress to living the...
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    The Joy of Minimalism

    Minimalism and the Simple LifeAuthor and YouTuber, Zoey Arielle, opens up about her struggle with loving all the things in life we bring home. A hoarder in disguise, Arielle has mastered the tools needed to embrace simplicity and the minimalist...
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    Green Homekeeping

    Is your home a sustainable and eco-friendly environment?Every decision you make during the day, both large and small, has an impact on the environment. Make your daily impact planet-positive.Eco-friendly home:With the gentle guidance of eco-expert, Alice...
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Home & House Maintenance & Building Books at BookLoop

Welcome to BookLoop’s Home & House Maintenance & Building Books section, your trusted Australian destination for books on DIY renovation ideas, home renovation costs, outdoor area design and household management tips. From small home renovation projects to full extensions, we bring you practical books that inspire confidence and save money.

Expert Advice for DIY Renovations

Discover step-by-step DIY guides that make home projects approachable for everyone. Whether you are learning how to paint, install fixtures, or complete affordable makeovers, our DIY section delivers clear and practical instructions. Perfect for weekend warriors or first-time renovators.

Cost-Effective Renovation Planning

Wondering about home renovation cost? Our books explain realistic budgets for Australian homes, from budget kitchen renovations to small home renovation ideas under $5,000. Gain insider tips on saving money while achieving professional-quality finishes.

Outdoor Living & Design Inspiration

Love your outdoor spaces? Browse our Design and Maintenance – Outdoor Areas range for inspiration on outdoor kitchen design, verandah upkeep, deck building, and seasonal maintenance. These books offer creative yet practical ways to transform gardens, patios, and alfresco spaces across Australia.

Home Renovation & Extensions

Planning a bigger project? Our Home Renovation & Extension books demystify complex builds. Learn how to budget, select materials suited to the Australian climate, and comply with local building codes. From single-room remodels to full home extensions, these guides help you approach construction with confidence.

Household Management & Home Hints

Keep your home running smoothly with practical advice from our Household Management & Home Hints collection. These books cover cleaning routines, maintenance schedules, seasonal checklists, and clever home hacks designed for busy Australian families.

Why Choose BookLoop?

At BookLoop, we offer you a massive range of reliable, easy-to-follow books tailored for Australian homeowners. Whether you are interested in affordable DIY renovation ideas, cost to renovate a house, or streamlined household maintenance, our collection offers expert solutions for every need.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much will my home renovation cost?

Our books such as Building Your Own Home provide real-world cost breakdowns for kitchens, bathrooms, and extensions, with examples based on Australian trades and suppliers.

What are some affordable DIY renovation ideas?

Discover budget-friendly projects such as repainting kitchens, building clever storage, or refinishing existing spaces for under $5,000.

How do I maintain outdoor living areas?

Find advice on weatherproofing, seasonal maintenance, and design solutions that keep your decks, patios, and gardens in excellent condition year-round.

Can I plan a home extension myself?

Yes. Our renovation books cover compliance, budgeting, timelines, and design choices to guide you through the process step by step. You can follow expert guides like Be Your Own Builder for expert advice and ideas.

How can I stay on top of household chores?

Our management guides include spring-cleaning checklists, seasonal maintenance routines, and everyday organisation tips tailored for busy lives.

Start Your Home Transformation Today

From small DIY projects and kitchen facelifts to large-scale home extensions and household hacks, BookLoop provides the knowledge you need to maintain and improve your home the Australian way—with confidence, clarity, and practical expertise.