Best of Ask This Old House: 44 Common Household

Manufacturer: Taunton Press

Watching Paul Levine will convince you that creating a beautiful kitchen is as easy as building one simple cabinet several times over. Levine's system saves time, anticipates mistakes and allows for corrections. All you need is access to a small workshop with a table saw a router and some common hand tools. What's more, your cabinets will be as handsome as they are strong, featuring sleek lines, hidden hinges, colorful laminated surfaces and warm wood trim. By watching Levine you'll learn how to: laminate plastic to plywood for easy-to-clean surfaces, cut tongue-and-groove joints to assemble the cases, rout dovetails for sturdy, solid-wood drawers, and install trouble-free drawer slides and adjustable hinges.

Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing

A tour of Michael Phillips orchard through the seasons. Every farm and homestead can enjoy the timeless pleasure of an organic fruit orchard. Yet this can also be challenging, because few people today have the depth of knowledge and experience needed to produce healthy trees and nutritious, great-tasting fruit without the use of harmful and expensive chemicals. The answer is to create a more holistic orchard: one that emphasizes biological health and diversity from the microscopic fungi in the soil to the beneficial insects, companion plants, and the birds and wildlife that together form a complete and living orchard ecosystem. In other words, an orchard that works with nature rather than fighting against it. Michael Phillips is a pioneering author and orchardist whose books include The Holistic Orchard and The Apple Grower. In this video, he leads viewers through a year in his own orchard, demonstrating basic horticultural skills like grafting and pruning, but also revealing groundbreaking and field-tested strategies for growing apples and other tree fruits not just organically, but holistically.

Manufacturer: Taunton Press Brand: Tauton Press

Teach Yourself to Sew, Season 2 DVD. Learn more basics and fundamental techniques, from the editors of Threads. Expand your sewing skills. With Teach Yourself to Sew, Season 2, the second DVD in this breakthrough series from Threads, you'll learn a lot more basics along with must-know techniques. With these fundamentals under your belt, you can start sewing clothes you never dreamed you could make. Sew smarter in minutes. Follow along as Threads Senior Technical Editor, Judith Neukam, walks you through engaging one-on-one demos. She shows you why turning perfectly finished seams doesn't have to be daunting. Takes the mystery out of inserting invisible zippers. And shares her tips for making what every sewer wants - your own custom dress form - the easy way to get a perfect fit. Learn at your own pace. The beauty of this DVD is that it gives you a helpful overview. Yet it's easy to go back to review details when you are actually working on projects that involve inserting facings, making gathers, or adding patch pockets. Show off your personal style. With Teach Yourself to Sew, Season 2, your dreams can come true. You can start sewing beautiful clothes you'll absolutely love right away.

Manufacturer: Taunton Press Brand: Tauton Press

In Framing Floors and Stairs, Larry Haun and his brother Joe frame the floor of a basic 1,600 square foot house. They take you step-by-step through the entire process, showing you practical ways to organize tasks, streamline procedures, and handle all the right tools and materials efficiently.

Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Magazine Brand: Popular Woodworking

Roy Underhill returns in Season Twenty?wo with 13 more episodes of woodworking techniques, advice, tutorials, and more.

Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Magazine Brand: Popular Woodworking

Roy Underhill returns in Season Twenty One with 13 more episodes of woodworking techniques, advice, tutorials, and more.

Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Magazine Brand: Woodwright's Shop

Classic Episodes, The Woodwright's Shop (Season 16) by Roy Underhill

Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Magazine Brand: Popular Woodworking

Charismatic and innovative, woodworker Roy Underhill has been educating and entertaining people with his unrivaled knowledge of traditional hand tools and woodworking techniques for more than 30 years. Now you can enjoy all the classic episodes from the fourth season of his hit PBS show any time you want

Manufacturer: Bfs Entertainment

Contractor Mike Holmes has a mission: Do home renovations right… the first time. Holmes’ television hit, Holmes on Homes™, has helped over 50 million viewers around the world protect themselves against sloppy, dangerous and illegal renovations, as well as shoddy rip-off contractors who take the money and run. Since 2003, Holmes on Homes™ has aired all over the world, including on the Discovery Home channel and as of June 28, 2008, on TLC Saturdays at 2:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and Sundays at 12:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Holmes has also made several appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and his book, Make It Right, became a HarperCollins #1 bestseller within weeks of its release.Holmes’ goal is to build homeowners’ visions. In Holmes on Homes™, people’s homes are transformed right before their very eyes… and yours. Now you can own the complete fourth season of this hugely popular TV series on DVD. Mike Holmes does not just renovate homes… he renovates lives.