Household Manual

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The Household Manual:
- Everything you need to know to run a home.
This is the reference book essential to every home. It tales a completely fresh look at what is needed for homemaking and looking after a family in today's hectic world. Whatever your problem, covering an old sofa, choosing a dishwasher, unblocking the sink or dealing with a wasp sting, this manual will help you to solve it—with step-by-step illustrations where appropriate. Refreshing in its approach to time-consuming chores, it will guide you through the maze of labour-saving gadgets on the market and advise on what they can do—and what they cannot do. The information will help you make up your mind: and the advice it gives, unlike the advice that is so often dispensed, is impartial.
The chapter on kitchens and kitchen equipment includes ideas on planning the layout for easy working, and gives sound information on cookers, deep-freezers and a host of household gadgets. For the rest of the house, the book is... Tovább

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The Household Manual:
- Everything you need to know to run a home.
This is the reference book essential to every home. It tales a completely fresh look at what is needed for homemaking and looking after a family in today's hectic world. Whatever your problem, covering an old sofa, choosing a dishwasher, unblocking the sink or dealing with a wasp sting, this manual will help you to solve it—with step-by-step illustrations where appropriate. Refreshing in its approach to time-consuming chores, it will guide you through the maze of labour-saving gadgets on the market and advise on what they can do—and what they cannot do. The information will help you make up your mind: and the advice it gives, unlike the advice that is so often dispensed, is impartial.
The chapter on kitchens and kitchen equipment includes ideas on planning the layout for easy working, and gives sound information on cookers, deep-freezers and a host of household gadgets. For the rest of the house, the book is crammed with tips about interior decorating, and shows you how to transform a room with new lighting, textures and patterns. It also covers a host of do-it-yourself projects. You will find easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams on making curtains, blinds, loose covers, lampshades and other soft furnishing on making a new seat for a dining room chair on sewing and dressmaking . . . Vissza