Home, Improved: Transform Your Rooms with Easy DIY

Fariha Nasir, designer and creator of the Instagram sensation @pennies_for_a_fortune, helps you transform your everyday home into a cozy, beautifully decorated retreat with her easy renovation ideas and DIY room makeovers for every budget

If you love looking at inspiring interiors but often think, That is amazing, but there's no way I have what it takes (time, money, expertise) to pull it off, Fariha Nasir is here to change all that. Her new book is for everyone who loves good design but thinks they would need an army of experts to actually achieve the style they crave.

Home, Improved takes readers through the process of easy home improvement and teaches DIY novices how to choose materials and successfully create simple accessory, furnishing, and room makeovers.

There are plenty of books that claim to make renovating achievable, but here's the thing: because she has done this all herself, Nasir's smart approach really does teach you how to create simple projects with success.

Her story is compelling: She arrived in the U.S. as a young immigrant with nothing more than a suitcase full of clothes and a handful of art supplies, but she was determined to add a decorative spark to the drab rental apartment she shared with her new husband.

Fast-forward six years, one home, two children, and one TV show later, and Nasir has become a design influencer bravely leading her fans through projects they never thought they could accomplish--to create the homes they had always dreamed of.

Fariha Nasir is a self-taught designer and DIY expert with a passion for making ordinary spaces extraordinary. Armed with a fine arts degree and a can-do creative spirit, Nasir launched Pennies for a Fortune in 2019 to document the DIY journey of transforming her Houston, Texas, builder-grade house into her custom dream home. Since then, she has helped her followers transform all sorts of homes and tricky spaces. She has collaborated with Chasing Paper, West Elm, and Home Depot, and starred in the Magnolia Network's Problem Spaces. Her 163,000 Instagram followers appreciate good design and the unique opportunities of DIY. Arlyn Hernandez is an LA-based writer, editor, and stylist. She served as executive editor at Luxe Interiors + Design, was design editor at Apartment Therapy, and worked as chief content officer for Emily Henderson. Hernandez is a frequent contributor to Domino.com, Lonny, 1stdibs, and Real Simple.