Author/Writer Penny Swift and photographer/web designer Janek Szymanowski have a special interest in domestic architecture and the do-it-yourself approach to home improvement.
Based on their first-hand experience of renovating, decorating, building, and extending houses, they have created more than 30 successful titles, including Bathrooms for the South African Home, Complete Book of Outdoor DIY: Build your own: Patios, Fences, Paths, Steps, Walls, and Sheds, as well as Plascon Paint Techniques, Decorating on a Shoestring, Swimming Pools and Spas for South African Homes, The Complete South African House Book, Outdoor Style, Brickwork Made Easy: A Step-by-step Guide (and similar titles dealing with woodwork and metalwork), and several illustrated college textbooks dealing with construction topics and welding. Some of the covers are here below.
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Below are two coffee-table and informative, 200 pages plus hardcover books with dust jackets that sold very well over the years. All research for information and locations for photography as well as top-quality copy written by Penny. All professional lighting and photography done by Janek.
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We also renovated the gardens of the houses where we stayed and did landscaping improvements and built features for these titles, all documented and photographed. Penny also sourced locations for other quality content to fill our books pages.
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Woodwork The Easy Way, Fix-it-Quick and Brickwork Made Easy are three softcover books all about 96 pages with cover.
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Five more Softcover & Hardcover Books Below all about 96 pages that help professionals as well as DIYers
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There are a number of printed programs, guides and smaller publications that we have published for clients, two of them featured here below.
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Our daughter was a champion horsewoman and we were approached by a national bank to publish and brand a coffee-table South African book on equestrian sports.
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A comprehensive compendium of all equestrian activities, disciplines, and sports in southern Africa, this book combines historical information with contemporary accounts, both factual and anecdotal. More than 250 full-colour photographs and 50 black and white pictures bring each beautifully illustrated chapter alive.
- Succinct facts and features of the 17 most popular breeds in southern Africa.
- Absorbing stories recounting the origins of every horse sport imaginable
- Countless fascinating tidbits relating to the Olympic disciplines, including achievements by South African horses and riders.
- The southern African approach to the sport of kings, the king of games, and the game that is known as the king of the one-horse sports.
- Information about the development of equestrian sport in Southern Africa
- An insight into the sport where to finish is to win
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