A decent compendium of various home-related issues, with chapters on home decorating, entertaining, cleaning and organization, and home repairs. I found the sections on cleaning and organizing to be particularly instructive, especially the part where it suggests various cleaning tasks to perform daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annually, and yearly, in order to make it easier to keep the place tidy (something I'm not that good at doing).

One thing that did bother me about this book was the spelling errors and misused words that popped up on occasion: for example, typos where "your" was just "you", or the constant misuse of the word "insure" (it was used where "ensure" would have been the correct choice). Still, there's bound to be some useful information in this book for most people, and it's very nicely illustrated. ( )