DIY may refer to:

• Do it yourself, a term used by various communities that focus on people creating things for themselves without the aid of paid professionals
  • DIY birth, the process of intentionally giving birth without the assistance of a medical or professional birth attendant
  • DIY culture, a broad term used to refer to a wide range of grassroots political activism
  • DIY ethic, the ethic of being self-reliant as opposed to relying on professionals
  • DIY moving, do-it-yourself packing and moving
  • DIY audio, do-it-yourself audio equipment
• DiY-Fest, a festival of ultra-independent movies, books, zines, music, poetry, and performance art that ran from 1999 until 2002
• DIY Network, a television channel focusing on home do-it-yourself projects
• WarioWare D.I.Y., a video game for the Nintendo DS
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Do-It-Yourself Book, an activity book by author and game designer Jeff Kinney
• DiY Sound System, a musical collective originating in the House Music movement in late 1980's Britain, based in Nottingham, England.

In music:

• Do It Yourself (Ian Dury & the Blockheads album)
• Do It Yourself (The Seahorses album)
• DIY, a song from Peter Gabriel (1978 album)
• DIY, a song from Adios (KMFDM album)

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Mark Montano
Interior designer, artist, columnist, and television host Mark Montano: author of the best-selling "The Big-Ass Book of Crafts" and "The Big-Ass Book of Home Decor", both published by SimonSpotlight.
Website
http://www.markmontano.com

Mark Montano is an American interior designer, artist, writer, and TV personality.

Television[link]

Mark Montano is perhaps best known for three series on the Style Network and The Learning Channel: 10 Years Younger, which he hosted, While You Were Out, on which he frequently appears as a designer,^[1] and My Celebrity Home on which he is both host and designer. Montano can currently be seen on WE TV's new show, "She's Moving In".^[2] Montano has a flamboyant design sense that homeowners on While You Were Out are sometimes less than enthused about at first, but he usually wins them over with his boisterous personality.

On My Celebrity Home, Mark tours a celebrity's home and gives their style to a fan. Mark is currently filming MY HOME 2.0 which will air on FOX and Fios channels nationwide starting in April 2010.

[edit] The Big-Ass Book of Crafts (2008) and other works

Mark Montano is the author of several successful books. "The Big-Ass Book of Crafts", published through SimonSpotlight, subsidiary of Simon & Schuster, owned by parent company CBS,^[3] was released on February 18, 2008 and is now the number 1 selling craft book in America. The Big-Ass Book of Crafts is currently in its 7th printing as of January 2009. The Big-Ass Book of Home Decor is on shelves starting April, 2010.^[4] For further tips from The Big-Ass Book of Home Decor, there is the companion website^[5] and his Typepad blog.^[6] In January 2011, Pulp Fiction: Perfect Paper Projects, was published and on October 11, The Big-Ass Book of Crafts 2 was officially on bookstore shelves everywhere.^[7]

Bibliography[link]

• "The Big Ass Book of Crafts 2" (2011) ISBN 1451627807
• Pulp Fiction: Perfect Paper Projects (2011) ISBN 157421697X
• The Big-Ass Book of Home Decor (2010) ISBN 1584798254
• The Big-Ass Book of Crafts (2008) ISBN 1416937852
• Super Suite: The Ultimate Bedroom Makeover Guide for Girls (2002) ISBN 0789308118
• Window Treatments and Slipcovers for Dummies (2005) ISBN 0764584480
• Dollar Store Decor: 100 Projects for Lush Living That Won't Break the Bank (2005) ISBN 0789313030^[8]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mark Montano on Twitter
• Blogspot.com
• Mark Montano designer profile at Fashion Model Directory
• Mark Montano on Etsy.com
• Mark Montano Facebook page
• Nest.com article
• Mark Montano Crescendoh blog