The Good Housekeeping Book of the Home is a book for everyone – whether they are buying for the first time, renting or just moving onwards and upwards on the housing spiral. It’s full of helpful advice on choosing a place and raising the money for it, gives sound counsel on essentials like rewiring, plumbing, painting, papering and curtain making, and is rich with imaginative and original ideas for decorating. Whether your taste is for a pretty, cottagey effect or for uncluttered high tech, here is information on how to achieve it, backed up by over 200 photographs to give you inspiration.

          This is a realistic book. It faces the fact that some people prefer to pay professionals rather than do things themselves. It recognizes that people on tight budgets need greater ingenuity than those with a little extra cash. It guides you in making choices for youe kind of lifestyle. Do you need a dishwasher? Is an open-plan kitchen better suited to your family and entertaining needs more than a formal dining room?