Home, Garden & Lifestyle Books

If you're running out of hand sanitizer and sick of high priced sanitation products, then this is the book for you.

Full House No Vacancies is a "location play" set in a run down St Kilda boarding house that was once a splendid Victorian mansion . On arrival at the front door to the audience are divided into three groups who rotate through bedrooms belonging to three of its residents where scenes are performed simultaneously (so that each audience group witnesses all the events of the play but in different viewing orders). These are the living spaces of Sheila (a semi-retired actress and chantreuse), Freddie

Home Staging A Seller's Guide To Staging Their Home is easy to read step-by-step instructions on how to get your home ready to sell. Written from an Interior Design point of view this workbook offers great information on how to stage your home's interior and exterior spaces. It also includes valuable information on how to paint, choose correct lighting, and work with a contractor if there are needed repairs. In addition, it has bonus tips on how to set your home up so it photographs well. At th

In three steps and with just two rules to follow, this simple guide book will teach you HOW to declutter and WHEN to declutter.

Create the garden of your dreams with ideas and advice from a leading light in the gardening world, Melanie Walker. Whether you have a tiny urban courtyard or a roomy rural plot, Garden Style will inspire gardeners from every corner of South Africa to make the most of their garden and entertainment area.

A useful guide for anyone who has moved into a new house and needs to create a garden that will meet their needs for decades to come. Garden Design and Planning shows you how to convert a bare patch or an existing layout into the garden of your dreams.

This handy pocket guide introduces local gardening enthusiasts to some of southern Africa’s most beautiful, beneficial and easy- to-care-for indigenous plants, giving guidance on how best to use them and how to ensure that they flourish.

A companion volume to Attracting Birds to Your Garden, the focus of this guide extends to other ‘wildlife’, such as butterfl ies, dragonfl ies, bugs of all sorts, frogs, lizards and geckoes, and small mammals such as mongooses, genets and hedgehogs.

The Renovation Guide covers all aspects of alterations and additions, outlining the difference between the two, the regulations that dictate what can and can’t be done, as well as sound advice on the legalities of homeownership.

Eco-friendly gardening is fast catching on. Butterflies are visible signs of a healthy garden, and, with their whimsical flight patterns and glorious colours, they are among the most alluring of our aerial visitors.

The grass family, known as Poaceae, is probably the most important plant family on earth. Grasses were the first food plants to be cultivated by man. Grass crops, such as maize, wheat, rice and sugarcane are still our most important food source to farm animals and the large herds of grazing animals in the wild.