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                                                                   Exhibit 10.11



                          D.I.Y. HOME WAREHOUSE, INC.
                                5811 Canal Road
                            Valley View, Ohio 44125







                                  July 1, 1998


Mr. Eric I. Glassman
Vice-President and Chief Financial
  Officer
5811 Canal Road, Suite 180
Valley View, OH 44125

Dear Mr. Glassman:

        This letter will confirm with you the terms and conditions upon which
the Compensation Committee (the "Committee") of the Board of Directors of D.I.Y.
Home Warehouse, Inc., an Ohio corporation (the "Company") in its Action Without
Meeting taken as of July 1, 1998, granted to you the right to receive a bonus
under certain circumstances.

        If you participate in bringing about a transaction resulting in a change
of control of the Company (as defined below) (a "Transaction") and (i) you are
still employed by the Company immediately prior to the closing of the
Transaction, or (ii) your employment has been terminated by the Company without
cause after the execution of the definitive agreement governing the Transaction,
you will be entitled to receive a bonus (the "Transaction Bonus") equal to
$50,000.

        You shall be entitled to received a Transaction Bonus hereunder with
respect to a Transaction which is closed by December 31, 1999.

        The Company confirms that any Transaction Bonus is in addition to any
payment which you may be entitled to receive pursuant to the terms of any
employment agreement you may have with the Company as a result of termination of
your employment due to a change of control of the Company.

        As used herein, the term "change of control" shall mean any of the
following:

                  (i) an event or series of events by which any person or other
                  entity or group (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and
                  14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
                  "Securities Exchange Act") of persons or other entities acting
                  in concert as a partnership or other group (a "Group of
                  Persons") shall, as a result of a tender or exchange offer or
                  offers, an open market purchase or purchases, a privately
                  negotiated purchase or purchases or otherwise, become the
                  beneficial owner (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the
                  Securities Exchange Act), 

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                  directly or indirectly, of 50% or more of the then outstanding
                  voting stock of the Company; or

                  (ii) the Company consolidates with. or merges with or into,
                  another person or entity or sells. assigns. conveys,
                  transfers. leases or otherwise disposes of all or
                  substantially all of its assets to any person or entity, or
                  any person or entity consolidates with, or merges with or into
                  the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in
                  which 50% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the
                  Company is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or
                  other property.


                                             Very truly yours,

                                             D.I.Y. HOME WAREHOUSE, INC.


                                             By: /s/ Fred A. Erb   
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                                                   Fred A. Erb,
                                                   Chairman of the Board


ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED
TO N JULY 30, 1998

/s/ Eric I. Glassman
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Eric I. Glassman