Renovation Design

Every year, thousands of homeowners apply for planning permission and come away battered and bruised. As a council case officer, Martin Gaine was part of the problem, continuously rejecting applications from poorly prepared applicants. Seeing that they were getting a raw deal, he founded Just Planning, a consultancy dedicated to helping homeowners to beat the planners. How to Get Planning Permission is a lively and accessible guide for homeowners.

Unlock the secrets to crafting your dream home with the Housebuilding Cheats, Hacks, Hints, Tips, and Tricks for Building a New Home book. From foundation to finishing touches, this comprehensive guide takes you through every step of the housebuilding journey. Discover expert insights on design, materials, energy efficiency, and more, ensuring your project is both practical and breathtaking. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned builder, this book equips you with the knowledge to create a space that reflects your vision and enhances your lifestyle.

Traveling the world from the comfort of your home is something that many people dream about but seldom do. Converting a vehicle into your home allows you to do this and so much more. Creating a vehicle into a tiny home allows you to live more minimally, freely, and inexpensively. This audiobook teaches you step by step on how to convert any vehicle into a tiny home and the best tips to know along the way. Converting a vehicle into a tiny home can be timely and difficult.

You can obtain energy via solar power almost anywhere you live. Of course, you must have the proper equipment, but from there, the rest happens automatically each and every day with the rising sun. Instead of paying the energy companies for power, you can learn how solar energy is becoming more and more viable. Reductions in costs make it less money to install then one thinks. There are many benefits to going off grid with solar power. Want to know them all? We will show you how.

Every 24 minutes, someone somewhere in Britain starts an extension on their house. Regrettably, a shocking number of these building projects ends in total disaster.

Master your home’s plumbing with confidence! From leaky faucets and clogged drains to frozen pipes and low water pressure, plumbing problems can strike at the most inconvenient times. But with the right knowledge and a few essential tools, you can take control of your home’s plumbing and save yourself time, money, and stress. "The Complete Home Plumbing Handbook" is your ultimate guide to tackling common plumbing issues with confidence and skill.

Let’s face it: Our lives change. We transition from single to couple, to young family, to growing family, to empty nester, to retirement. Would you love to live in a home that adapts to different phases of your life, so you’d need to move less often? Is it possible to build such a home? This book teaches you about building concepts and prepares you to thoughtfully design your future home, a home that adapts to different phases of your life, reducing your need to move.

Welcome to "The Mindful Home", where we are passionate about the art of creating harmonious living spaces that nurture well-being and happiness. We offer a wide range of topics and techniques for cultivating serenity in your living space.

Possession, they say, is nine-tenths of the law, but it is also what too many houses and towns lack. We are not possessed by our home places. This lost quality of dwelling—the soul of buildings—haunts most of our houses and our landscape. Dwelling in Possibility is a search for the ordinary qualities that make some houses a home, and some public places welcoming.

Does the idea of never having to pay utility, rent or mortgage bills ever again sound like a dream come true? Welcome to the world of tiny houses, an innovative living solution for those who don’t want to live their lives in debt to own a home! What started as a way to shelter people after natural disasters became a world popular housing trend, with millions praising the benefits of living in a small but highly functional house. If you want to join this ever-expanding club of debt-free house owners, this book will guide you on the path to your own, tiny piece of heaven on Earth!

What if you could still work at home, but have a personal area that’s professional, well-appointed, and not easily accessible to your curious kids? With your own shipping container workspace, separating work and home life is possible even if you work from home.

In Little Home, Big Dreams: The Tiny Home Lifestyle for Beginners, Kristine Hudson shares the steps to create the tiny house space and lifestyle that fits your needs the best. Based on her own transition into tiny house living, Kristine takes listeners through a journey that she intimately understands.

If you think the tiny-house lifestyle may be for you, this audiobook will guide you through the process from start to finish - from deciding whether to pursue your own tiny-house adventure, all the way through the building or buying process, finishing up with space hacks and furniture ideas to getting the very most out of your very own tiny home!

The Ultimate Home Improvement Blueprint is your all-in-one guide to transforming your home with expert DIY renovation, remodeling, and smart home upgrades. Packed with step-by-step instructions, pro tips, and budget-friendly strategies, this book helps homeowners enhance functionality, style, and property value. Whether you're remodeling a kitchen, upgrading a bathroom, or integrating smart technology, this blueprint ensures you achieve professional-quality results.

Simple, practical advice on how to design your home for health and happiness. Create a healthy, happy home with 100 design ideas to support your physical and mental wellbeing. Using the latest evidence and research in wellbeing and Biophilic Design, learn how to transform every space in your home to create a restorative and nurturing environment. Discover the many benefits of connecting to nature, maximising natural light, improving air quality and the right way to add colour, texture and pattern to create spaces that improve relaxation, recuperation, social connections and sleep.

Escape the noise of modern life and step into the world of self-sufficient living with Off-Grid Living Made Simple: A Stress-Free Guide to Buy, Design, and Optimize Your Land, House, Energy, Food, and Water for a Self-Sufficient Homestead. This audiobook takes you on a transformative journey, whether you're a seasoned DIY enthusiast or someone with zero experience. Picture a life where you grow your own food, generate your own energy, and embrace the peace of nature.

"The Homestead Book" is more than just a manual; it's a roadmap to a fulfilling lifestyle that respects the rhythms of nature and the value of hard work. Illustrated with real-world examples, handy tips, and insightful anecdotes, it's a treasure trove of wisdom awaiting your discovery.

Every time a pile of clutter catches your attention or gets in your way (or trips you or embarrasses you or angers you), you think to yourself, "I have to go through this...but not now, because I'm too fill-in-the-blank (tired, busy, etc.)." That intention is as far as the organizing actually gets, and the cycle just begins again. Frustrating, isn't it? What if I told you that busting through the never-ending sequence of procrastination and perpetual heaps of clutter was not only possible, but with the strategies in this audiobook, almost painless?

Building a swimming pool may seem like an enormous task. But with this book that large task is logically broken down into an organized procession of much smaller ones. Each step is explained in clear and precise language and is never vague. At the beginning of each chapter you are given a complete list of tools and supplies needed for that step in the process.

Learn how to turbocharge your home's value and your monthly cash flow using government funded solar energy on your roof. This boxed set homeowners roofing guide from Jon Nelsen includes Solar Powered Energy Theft: Legal No Money Down Solar Panels for Homeowners and What I Wish My Roofer Had Told Me: The Ultimate Guide to the Roof of Your Dreams on a Budget.