How Hard Can It Be?: Toolgirl's Favorite Repairs And Projects - Softcover

Ruffman, Mag

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582701350 ISBN 13: 9781582701356

Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2005

Synopsis

You can pay big money for a self-esteem seminar, or you can buy yourself a cordless drill. I recommend the drill. With sass and savvy, Mag Ruffman enables readers to confront their fear of DIY projects and accomplish those nagging home repairs and improvements. Accompanied by lots of tips and photos, Ruffman covers a wide range of maintenance, repair, renovation, and upgrading projects. Full of quirky humor? who doesn't enjoy using tools like a butt gauge or stud finder? and unconventional solutions (five-gallon buckets become makeshift stilts for a ceiling project), the book offers a common sense approach to common household woes. With refreshing candor, Ruffman shares her own mistakes, showing what can go wrong and that it's okay when it does. Her encouraging tone empowers readers to "unleash the do-it-yourself giant within" and tackle seemingly intimidating projects that would otherwise result in expensive repair bills.

About this title

About the Author

Mag Ruffman is an author, television producer, writer, actress, and building contractor. She spent seven years as Olivia Dale on Disney’s beloved Avonlea and five seasons in a tool belt as host, creator, and producer of the fix-it classic A Repair to Remember and the workshop series Anything I Can Do, which now airs worldwide. She also created and hosted the groundbreaking relationship show Men On Women for W Network in Canada. In addition to How Hard Can It Be?, Mag also wrote the Canadian bestseller We're All in This Together, a conversation about life with Steve Smith, creator of the character Red Green.

Mag’s weblog and quirky home repair videos can be found online at www.toolgirl.com, and a searchable database of her syndicated newspaper articles is available at www.homeenvy.com. Her weekly newspaper column appears across Canada in Sun Media newspapers.

Mag is also national spokesperson for Habitat for Humanity Canada and in her spare time she welds, snowshoes, attempts to write music, and geeks out on her macs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582701350
• ISBN 13: 9781582701356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224