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Home Life
Includes
Home Improvement, Cleaning, Repair, Construction, Design, and Decorating
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Web Sites |
doityourself.com
Hundreds of home improvement and repair topics with step-by-step
instructions. Includes home decorating, too.
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www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/mod02/master02.html
Full text articles on topics of home maintenance and repairs.
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www.howtocleananything.com/
Cleaning tips for in and around the house.
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www.taunton.com
Selected articles from Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, Fine Cooking,
Fine Gardening, and Threads
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www.toiletology.com
Almost everything you ever wanted to know about your toilet.
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www.thisoldhouse.com
Complete instructions for home repair and improvement projects, as well as
an online video library where experts solve everyday homeowner problems.
Site also includes material calculator to estimate the amount of paint,
wallpaper, insulation, air conditioning, or flooring needed for a project
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www.bhg.com
Lots of decorating ideas and tools. Especially noteworthy are the tools that
allow you to arrange-a-room, color a room, or plan a garden.
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gardening.about.com
Wonderful site covering flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, garden planning,
soils, pests and more. |
Browse the Shelves
Listed below are the Dewey decimal numbers
for the following subject categories. |
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621.319 |
Electric Wiring |
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621.38 |
Small Appliance Repair |
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635 |
Gardening |
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643.7 |
Home Repair and Improvement |
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684.83 |
Woodworking |
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684.1 |
Furniture Building |
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690-690.837 |
House Building |
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690.89 |
Outdoor Structures |
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693.1 |
Masonry |
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694 |
Carpentry |
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696.1 |
Plumbing |
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698 |
Tiling |
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698.1 |
House Painting |
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698.9 |
Flooring |
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712.6 |
Landscaping |
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717 |
Outdoor Structures |
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728.37 |
House Plans |
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745.23 |
Decorative Painting |
| 747 |
Interior Decoration |
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Magazines in our Collection
To help with design, building,
maintaining and decorating your home. |
Architectural Digest
Country Home
Fine Homebuilding
Fine Woodworking
Home
House Beautiful
This Old House |
Books
A sampling of the many books in our circulating
collection. |
Cleaning and Clutter Control
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Videos and DVDs
A number of home improvement videos and DVDs are
available in the non-fiction section of our video and DVD
collection on the main floor. Topics include flooring, HVAC,
remodeling, storage ideas, building a deck,
preventative home maintenance, decorating,
furniture refinishing, basement and garage conversion and
stonemasonry.
Subject guide updated 11/05
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Burlington Public Library
