"Home Front" Guide to Doing Up Your Period Home

Linked to the BBC2 television series, "Home Front", this book for people restoring houses contains advice on period style on a small budget, and is intended particularly for owners of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian houses. Its topics range from choosing a surveyor and architect to dealing with damp, rot and rust, restoring old floors, staircases, plaster-work, doors, windows and fireplaces.