User wants to restore only the homepage of their site - need to do this without restoring subwebs?

This is hopefully a simple question, but here's the situation:

I'm a relatively junior SharePoint administrator, working as the sole admin on a smallish farm. We have regular issues with users deleting content that needs to be restored. Mostly, these restores are done from backups of our content databases.

This latest restore is giving me a headache. A content administrator in one of our subsites has royally screwed up only the homepage of his site. The site is not a publishing site, so the homepage is not (and was never) in the Site Pages library. The site itself is not used much, but it has something like a dozen subsites which are used by several teams on a regular basis.

So far, the only method I've thought of to restore the homepage is to:

1. backup all subwebs for the site
2. Restore the site
3. Restore each subweb one at a time.

But that seems excessive to me. Is there a simpler way to do this? Is there a way I can restore just the site without restoring its subwebs, or some other obvious solution I'm missing?

Thanks for your time,
Brandon