What is Home Improvement 1-2-3?

If you think calling Apple Tech Support is expensive, just wait until you have to bring in a plumber on December 25 to replace the fruitcake-choked trap beneath your kitchen

After paying quadruple overtime for this service, you may kick yourself for not having ponied up a mere $30 for Multimedia 2000’s Home Improvement 1-2-3. Despite being splattered with gratuitous references to cosponsor Home Depot, Home Improvement 1-2-3 is the best electronic home-repair reference you can buy. Unlike other home-repair CD-ROMs, Home Improvement 1-2-3 doesn’t presume you’re a trained handyperson. As a result, its instructions for plumbing, woodworking, electrical, and painting projects are straightforward. The projects range from relatively simple jobs such as installing a light switch to more-demanding tasks such as replacing a toilet.

Each project is presented as a series of steps, and if you like, you can have the instructions read to you — which will be particularly helpful when your head is stuck through that large hole in your ceiling. Each project also includes a list of required materials and tools as well as a Skill Level guide that indicates how long it will take people with different aptitudes to complete a job. Home Improvement 1-2-3 is a very handy CD- ROM indeed.

Breen, Christopher. (December 1998). 10 Delightful Discs. Macworld. (pg. 79).

Download Home Improvement 1-2-3 for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver