Home Improvement Projects for the Busy & Broke: How to Get Your $h!t Together and Live Like an Adult

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Home Improvement Projects for the Busy & Brokeaims to give you the knowhow and teach you to decorate your home while staying within your budget, all presented in an engaging and approachable way. Each project is accompanied by a list of tools and materials needed, along with step-by-step instructions. Salway uses her wit and playful personality to describe her journey of renovating and redecorating not only her two-bedroom Williamsburg apartment but also the New York farmhouse she and her husband bought as a major fixer-upper. Just like millenials today, she took on these projects while working a full-time job and sticking to a strict budgetthe advice is tried and true!

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Christina Salway graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2003 with a degree focused in architecture. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Country Living, the Design Bureau, Better Homes & Gardens, and numerous design blogs. She is one of Zillows in-house home improvement experts, was a contestant on NBCs American Dream Builders, made multiple appearances on The Nate Berkus Show, and was also included in Nate Berkuss latest book, The Things That Matter. Salway is the owner of ElevenTwoEleven Design, an interior design firm named for the zip code of her home and office in hip and happening Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband John, their son, and their rescue pit bull.