Home Renovation is part of the Barnes & Noble Basics series. The book provides concise, easy to follow advice for busy homeowners who want to renovate. Each topic is covered in a page spread, in which the left and right pages are designed to work together, and topics are further broken into feature boxes, sidebars, Q. and A.'s and First Person Disaster stories. Each chapter concludes with a resource box containing books, magazines and Web sites relevant to the subject.