The Second Home Book: The Can-Do, How-to, Get-Through Guide

The Ultimate Guide to Organize and Inspire You So You Can—Really!—Sit Back and Enjoy Your Second Home

The Second Home Book is the first of its kind – a conversational, comprehensive and convenient guide to setting up, operating and, most of all, enjoying a second home. It is cheerful and useful—funny, fact-filled, anecdotal – appealing to both those already ensconced in or encumbered with a 2nd residence as well as those imagining a future, fantastic home.

In The Second Home Book, you’ll learn:

--how to furnish your second home on a shoestring (without relying on castoffs from your primary residence)

--how to run your second home efficiently from afar

--how to assemble a dream team of helpers (from handymen to cleaning help) and keep them motivated

--how to entertain (even other people’s children) without exhausting yourself

--why you should avoid renovating your second home’s kitchen

--how to handle bills, routine maintenance, and emergencies

--how to turn any house into your dream house

The Second Home Book is not about how to finance a second home—it’s about absolutely everything else you need to know in one cheerful, easy-to-navigate volume.

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Title of ebook: The Second Home Book: The Can-Do, How-to, Get-Through Guide
ISBN: 9781429930154
parent-ISBN: 9780312374747
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Internet download file size: 1051 kb
Pages: 272
Published: 02-2008
Released online for download: 02-19-2008
Author of eBook: Oates, Marylouise

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The Can-Do, How-to, Get-Through Guide

Introduction

For almost twenty years, through no fault of my own, I have frequently owned a second home.

A commuting marriage, a false belief that it would be enjoyable to have a vacation home in the same small town where I spent childhood summers, the moves that accompany happy changes in marital status and career—all these factors stoked my unbridled desire to construct, decorate, entertain, renovate, and generally get my personal life as complicated as possible.

I am not an organizational genius. I am a messy person with a messy life—living in several places with thousands of books, hundreds of piles of papers, dozens of friends who want to brave it all to visit. Out of a deep fear that things are going to tumble down like a beach shack, I have developed plans to bring some order out of chaos. Or at least enough order so that the world thinks I am on top of things—and, sometimes, I am.

My biggest organizing breakthrough was facing the reality of owning a second home. Think of one of those dream seque ... read full excerpt from The Second Home Book: The Can-Do, How-to, Get-Through Guide ebook

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