Heaven or horror? Penny Padroni left the city and bought a country house, ugly and decrepit though it was, so that she could budge her fiance, Arthur Westbrook, out of his mother's apartment. It worked for a while, but the more she saw Arthur, the more she saw of his mother too. Mrs. Westbrook tried to take over and redesign Penny's house to suit her own tastes. This, in turn, led to clashes between Penny and Arthur, and to Penny's eventually turning to her handsome neighbor, Cork Corbett, for help with her domestic as well as romantic problems. Would Cork take Arthur's place in Penny's life, or would her old love win out? Would Penny's house become a heaven or a horror for her?