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Affordable Straw Bale Eco Home
For most self-builders, it’s pretty natural – if not inevitable – to become absorbed in the process. After all, you’ll be investing money, time and emotion into creating your dream home. Yet few people find their lives so profoundly changed as Kim Siu. Her project, a modestly-proportioned straw bale house completed on a shoestring budget, […]
Choosing the Right Timber Frame System
Right across the western world, more people choose timber frame than any other building system. Since 2000, timber frame manufacturing in the UK has doubled, with industry turnover grown 10 per cent from 2007. Experts predict that the method will continue to grow in popularity in England and Wales, catching up on the 75 per […]
Open Plan Living Ideas & Advice for Kitchen, Living & Dining Rooms
Open-plan living is a popular trend, giving homeowners the chance to create a modern, flexible and light-filled living environment. Whether your project involves an extension, renovation or you’re self building a new house, well-considered open-plan living could create a relaxed, communal and harmonious feel in your home. The most well-known example of open-plan living is […]
Choosing Windows – The Ultimate Guide
Whether you’re self building or renovating, the windows you choose will form a huge part of your home’s finished character. Aesthetics and budget are bound to give you a big steer towards the best window options, and there will be a lot of to-ing and fro-ing involved to get the balance right. But fenestration is […]
Should You Demolish and Rebuild?
It might seem a little counter-intuitive to take a perfectly good house and knock it down to build a new one in its place. Why not renovate, extend or bolt another storey onto the existing building? Surely that would make better sense financially? In some circumstances this is the case and, of course, a lot […]
It’s Time to Release More Plots
In early January it was impossible to escape images of waterlogged homes and the devastation inflicted on numerous communities in Scotland and North West England. In some areas this has happened for centuries, but in others questions are being asked about why houses were built on flood plains at all. The clue is in the […]
Cladding a Timber Frame Home
If you’re wondering which claddings will work best for your timber frame build, here’s the short answer: they can all be a good fit. But that’s not the whole story. The fact is, some finishes complement the qualities of a timber construction better than others. A big attraction of this structural system is that, once […]
16 Amazing Upside Down Houses
If you’re lucky enough to have a dramatic landscape on the doorstep of your property or building plot, chances are you’ll want to make the most of it. An upside down floor plan may therefore be the best architectural choice when it comes to framing your site’s scenic surroundings. The basis of an upside down […]
What Do The Coalition’s Planning Changes Mean for Self-Builders?
The coalition government’s manifesto promised wide-ranging reform of the planning system. A few high-profile changes have already been made with almost indecent haste, and more are in the pipeline. So, what are the implications for self-builders? Garden grabbing The most publicised policy change concerned ‘garden grabbing’. However, government rhetoric and media headlines of sweeping reform […]
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