Avoid DIY disasters with our handy hints for turning your house or flat into a home, plus guidance on making it a more energy-efficient place to live and saving you money!

• Antique radiators
• Filling in the cracks
• Lightening dark hallways
• Get a handle on it
• Straight talk for pictures
• If that wall's in your way
• More light on the subject
• Get more room from your roof
• Restore the woodwork
• Make brushes last longer
• Put in a patio
• Shape of things to do
• The knack with radiators
• Go on, take it all off!
• Tiling without effort
• Hiding ugly tiles
• Feel the difference with textures