Millions of us want to improve our home and surroundings, and there's tons of advice out there to help us; a never-ending avalanche of books, magazines, websites and TV programmes. But who's got the time to wade through this lot to sift the stuff that works from the rubbish? What we need are failsafe short cuts to turning our run-of-the-mill house into our dream home, complete with the perfect garden."Create Your Dream House and Garden" is the indispensable guide to turning your property into your dream residence, inside and out. Packed with down-to-earth, simple and effective advice, "Create Your Dream House and Garden" will help readers make the most of their house and garden so they can feel truly at home. We have selected the very best ideas from our database of expert ideas and stripped them down to the absolute essentials to create the fantastic new "52 Brilliant Little Ideas" series and ensure that create your dream house and garden is compact, inspiring to read and fantastic value. It is simply brilliant.

Author Biography

Lizzie O'Prey writes on entertaining, home style and interior design. Lizzie wrote Create your dream home and Perfect parties (978 1 904902 28 7), both available in the 52 Brilliant Ideas series. Jem Cook and Anna Marsden have experienced first hand every conceivable aspect of gardening from initial design and construction to planting and development. They co-wrote Create your dream garden (978 1 904902 24 9), available in the 52 Brilliant Ideas series, with Mark Hillsdon. Mark writes on environmental issues for Regeneration & Renewal and on gardening for The Times.