Remodeling On the Money: 15 Innovative Projects Designed to Add Value to Your Home

Offers fifteen home improvement projects that are cost effective and add value to property, with detailed breakdowns for materials, parts, and extras, and step-by-step instructions.

Alan J. Heavens has been writing about real estate and home improvement for the last 17 years. Heavens is the real estate and home improvement writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, for which his column “On the House” appears Sundays in Real Estate, and his features “Cheat Sheet” and “Your Place” appear on alternate Fridays in Home and Design.

Heavens is the author of What No One Ever Tells You About Renovating Your Home (Kaplan Publishing, 2005); president of the National Association of Real Estate Editors; an instructor at the Temple Real Estate Institute; and a speaker at professional meetings on public relations and multimedia. His writing appears in various magazines and other publications, including Popular Science, Consumers Digest, Urban Land, and National Real Estate Investor.

A veteran of 40 years as a reporter, he holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in history. He has restored two older houses and is working on his third.