Do-it-yourselfer

As a do-it-yourselfer, he made a doghouse.

Tom is a do-it-yourselfer.

During the past year or so, numerous new books have been published which can be helpful to do‐it‐yourselfers and home craftsmen, as well as to those readers on the lookout for new ideas and money‐saving suggestions on how to improve and maintain their homes and apartments.

Since the store's opening last November, do-it-yourselfers in the Washington area have been coming to Brookstone for tools and gadgets they have not been able to find anywhere else.

And it does seem that everything at the company is moving faster these days. Mr. Nardelli, who calls himself the "consummate do-it-yourselfer," has spent the last seven months installing management systems that Home Depot had never before imagined, and pressing the fast-forward button on ones it had just begun to consider.