Featuring more than a thousand illustrations and over two hundred self-contained jobs in step-by-step form, this DIY reference book is divided into five major sections, dealing with home decorating, home maintenance, home contents, choosing materials, and the home tool kit. Each chapter is identified by its individual coloured thumb-tag and symbol, and is further sub-divided into specific subject areas, such as painting, tiling, renewing, and upholstery. These sections are cross-referenced to other, numbered jobs, to special basic technique panels, and to the appropriate choosing materials chapter. Each task begins with a detailed section on planning, estimating and preparation. Readers are told what they will need, what tools to use and what to do, and the instructions are straightforward and arranged in a sequence which reflects the order of the work.