Setting Up Home: An Essential Guide to Creating a Home from Scratch

by Lorrie Mack

The task of planning, designing, furnishing, and equipping a home for the first time is one of the most daunting any of us ever face. Setting up Home provides all the essential information you need to create a beautiful, comfortable, and efficient living space. Covering a wide range of subject areas, from room planning and repairs to interior design and storage solutions, it also includes invaluable advice on what to buy first, where to make do and improvise, and how to get the very best for your money at a time when so many demands are being made on it.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Lorrie Mack is a journalist and stylist specializing in home-interest subjects. She also writes for a number of consumer magazines, including Homes & Gardens, Period Living, Homes and Ideas, and Inspirations.