Leaflet features a seaside-themed birdhouse village with eight painted birdhouses projects by Wendy Leger of the Kooler Design Studios: lighthouse, fruit barn, antique shop, schoolhouse, hotel/resort, fire station, marina mart, and seaside chapel.

While driving through New England one spring, Peri Wolfman and Charles Gold passed a field filled with birdhouses for sale. Charmed, they stopped to buy one and ended up taking the lot. Birdhouses, old and new, craft and architectural, became their favorite thing to search for. In Birdhousing, Peri and Charley share their delight in this new American collectible. Their interest is partly the desire to have birds singing in the garden and partly the enchantment of seeing a little weathered church rise from a thicket of roses. They have also discovered the pleasures of using collections of birdhouses to bring touches of rustic simplicity indoors. In their travels, they have found birdhouses inside and out in New Mexico, in Oregon, in California and Connecticut. Along the way they met the folk artists who make today's birdhouses, some of whom we meet in these pages. Peri and Charley have included recipes for bird feeds and a resource section listing retail and mail-order sources for birdhousing as well seed, feeders, and garden ornaments.. And they've made a beautifully photographed book that's certain to appeal to bird lovers and antiquers alike, as well to anyone willing to indulge in the dream of owning lots of houses -- in miniature.

This book is based on the research work by the author regarding e-villages at a global scale that are eco friendly with built-in incentives to attract neighboring villages to copy this model. The target population is all humanity especially residents of regions that are prone to disasters by human intervention. The second objective is to reverse the migration trend of general population from countryside to metropolitan cities in search of better services. This goal can be achieved by rejuvenating village population, which is the core source of our food supply chain. At the same time to ease the pressure from overcrowded cities that cannot handle more population beyond their capacity; The third objective is to empower rural population with simple tools of “non- evasive Eco friendly technologies” to access almost the same level of services at home as they would get, should they migrate to a metropolitan.; Forth objective is to tie up their economic interests of diverse population by making them interdependent on each other’s skills and services for their survival, prosperity & sustainability; Unlike a communistic or socialistic models, where one is not allowed to have personal holdings, thereby restricting their chances to achieve their personal goals by exercising neither their potential, nor it is pure capitalistic in nature to give unlimited unchecked power over other fellow beings. It is a hybrid lifestyle to get the best out of all models, make use of their potential to gain savings in their living expenses up to 75%. Additionally to have long-term social security in the form of joint investment with immediate return higher than they could otherwise get from open market and a great return for their retirement. Another purpose of this book is to educate those minds thinking to embrace eco sustainability To establish a blueprint for those who may follow.

24 inexpensive, easy-to-do projects for creating a quaint birdhouse village, including a bank, hotel, church, fire station, schoolhouse, and depot.

View a stunning collection of beautiful birdhouses, plus design specifications and tips to buy your own and what your future feathered tenants will need. Birds love houses as much as humans do. Well, not all birds—mainly the cavity nesters, which are just as comfortable inside a “house” hanging from a branch or mounted on a pole in someone’s backyard as they are inside the trunk of a tree. In Birdhouses of the World, author Anne Schmauss offers readers a collection of beautiful, whimsical, fantastical, stop-you-in-your-tracks-amazing birdhouses created by designers and bird lovers around the world. Schmauss starts off with a brief history of human-made birdhouses, then moved right into descriptions and photos of more than forty birdhouses found in the United States, Canada, England, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, and Japan. Most important in her selection is the wow factor. These birdhouses are spectacular in their creativity, ingenuity, and sheer originality. With styles ranging from sleek and modern to elaborate Victorian to hobbit style, they’re as varied as human houses and illustrate the variety of designs found throughout the world. Also included are specifications for each birdhouse, a nesting chart listing the most common cavity nesters in North America and their birdhouse needs, and a guide to what to look for when buying a good birdhouse. Birdhouses of the World offers a captivating look at the creativity that can result when a functional structure is infused with a love birds. Praise for Birdhouses of the World “[Author Anne] Schmauss searched the world to showcase the “coolest” birdhouses and tell their stories. And what birdhouses she has found.” —Los Angeles Times “A fascinating, “stop-you-in-your-tracks” tour of birdhouses crafted by designers and bird enthusiasts all around the world.” —Mother Nature Network “To judge from the imaginative birdhouses in Birdhouses of the World, some birds are inhabiting stylish architecture of the sort most of us can only dream about.” —The Santa Fe New Mexican