This handbook provides home owners, who like the country theme in their home furnishings, with a complete, practical guide to restoring and styling. The book demonstrates a host of inventive ideas, is illustrated with diagrams and photographs in step-by-step form on tinted stock, and has a 24-page section on DIY techniques for surfaces, furniture and soft furnishings. The illustrations show houses that people actually "live" in - not just room sets, in many eclectic styles, from oak-beamed English Tudor to austere American Amish. By the author of "The Book of Candles".