For those bookworms out there, book suggestions are a wonderful thing. Not only is a good read or even a great reference book nice to have around, but it also makes the prefect cozy home decor on a nightstand, bookshelf, or coffee table. For all our homeowners, we have put together a short list of the best books on everything home related that are great additions to your bookshelf.
How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home
This book is the perfect hands-on guide to showing visual representation of your home and how everything in it actually works. How does your plumbing get to the second floor? How are your ceiling fans are wired? Each chapter takes you through a different area or functionality. This book is great to have on your shelf, especially if you aren’t in the engineering or construction field. Click here to purchase.
The First-Time Homeowner's Survival Guide
Along with the pride and joy of first-time homeownership, come the surprises, overwhelming responsibilities, routine maintenance needed to keep your home healthy. Not only does this book answer questions on routine maintenance, but it also helps with repairs, renovations and how to avoid potential home disasters. Sid Davis’s guide will help subside all household worries. Click here to purchase.
Mad About the House: 101 Interior Design Answers
Written by Kate Watson-Smyth, a journalist whom also helps forecast future interior design trends for top companies such as: ELLE Decoration, Anthropologie, and MADE.com, this book will answer all of your questions regarding interior design. The chapters in this book relate to different areas throughout the home along with check lists, step-by-step guides to decorating, and much more.
This book is perfect for not only first-time home buyers, but all homeowners. The main purpose is to give the homeowner a place to log all information on the home in one place for future reference; from service companies to inspection repairs and utilities to remodeling plans. It is a compact logbook prefect for retaining your home’s most essential information. Click here to purchase.
“Discover the complete book of how to declutter and manage your spaces with little secrets simplifying your life.” Organization for an easy-flowing and clutter-free home is key, and sometimes we just don’t know where to start. This book by author Cassandra DeMorrow helps keep your home in order. Click here to purchase.
Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
With any homeownership and family responsibilities brings the comfort of home cooking. And while this book may not be directly related to homeownership, it sure does help make a house more like home. For first time home buyers, their very own kitchen to whip up wonderful creations is exhilarating. This cookbook by the talented Ina Garten includes recipes that will make the house smell delicious and “feed your deepest cravings”. Click here to purchase.
