DIY

From sprucing up the home front and changing rooms, to building grand designs: DIY is the book home owners can't afford to be without.

Catering for the absolute beginner and the experienced home-improver, DIY's unique visual approach and simple, clear instructions make even the hard jobs seem easy. More about the DIY book

Home health check

Is your house falling apart? Would you know the signs?

Make sure you know what to look out for with our home assessment list taken from DIY.

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Making the book

It took 5 years, 500 litres of paint, 50,000 screws, and virtually building a whole house to create our new DIY manual!

“DK is known for its design and ‘showing you what others only tell you’. So, when we decided to do a DIY manual we knew that we could show people much more clearly what to do if we used fully photographic how-to sequences rather than drawings. We also wanted to show the full picture. Not just the detail of the task but how that fits into the room and the project as a whole” says DK Reference Publisher, Jonathan Metcalf.

“The only way we could do that was to ‘build’ a house room-by-room inside our studio. It was a massive undertaking, and I understand now why no other publisher has done it before!”

"I've owned a few DIY books over the years, and even jobs I’ve done many times before like tiling, are easier to understand with the step by step photographs in DIY.”
GARRY, TOOTING

"Makes even the difficult jobs look easy"
MELANIE, LONDON

"Shows you how to do all the jobs around the house, big or small"
CHRISTINE, SURREY