Home, Improved : Transform Your Rooms with Easy DIY

Fariha Nasir, designer and creator of the Instagram sensation @pennies_for_a_fortune, helps you transform your everyday home into a cozy, beautifully decorated retreat with her easy renovation ideas and DIY room makeovers for every budgetIf you love looking at inspiring interiors but often think, That is amazing, but there’s no way I have what it takes (time, money, expertise) to pull it off, Fariha Nasir is here to change all that.Her new book is for everyone who loves good design but thinks they would need an army of experts to actually achieve the style they crave. Home, Improved takes readers through the process of easy home improvement and teaches DIY novices how to choose materials and successfully create simple accessory, furnishing, and room makeovers. There are plenty of books that claim to make renovating achievable, but here’s the thing: because she has done this all herself, Nasir’s smart approach reallydoes teach you how to create simple projects with success. Her story is compelling: She arrived in the U.S. as a young immigrant with nothing more than a suitcase full of clothes and a handful of art supplies, but she was determined to add a decorative spark to the drab rental apartment she shared with her new husband.Fast-forward six years, one home, two children, and one TV show later, and Nasir has become a design influencer bravely leading her fans through projects they never thought they could accomplish—to create the homes they had always dreamed of.