Authors Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen

share ideas for remodeling older homes to create modern, open floor plans while sharing lessons learned along the way. Topics include tricks of seeing through cluttered, dark rooms to imagine an open floor plan and space filled with light; how to manage a renovation budget (ideas on where to shop, items to splurge on, where to save); and designing homes for simple family living.

Fans of HGTV and DIY Network home renovation shows

will love this sweeping behind-the-scenes perspective on home transformations, written in a personal, intimate style, with humor and honesty.