improvements

8 simple and speedy home-improvement projects for time-poor homeowners

These quick fixes will take you a tenner and an afternoon, says Luke Rix-Standing.

Home improvements always look so simple on TV.

A few shots of an open toolbox, a montage of loud banging, and in just under 60 minutes (or 47 without ads), a perfectly fashioned walk-in closet has materialised where there used to be a wall.

Unfortunately in real life, for those of us...