Planning an Apartment Renovation An apartment renovation can be costly. Unoccupied rental property is something no owner wants. Planning before the renovation begins will keep the time lost to a minimum. Planning your apartment renovation strategies beforehand will also help to alert you to potential problems and help you to consider all your options before [...]
Good design will enhance your quality of life – and your property’s value. If you need more space, it’s well worth investing time and money exploring all the possibilities. Many inspired extensions evolve in response to a site’s characteristics: its strengths and its limitations, and the planning system. The ideas on these pages have evolved [...]
In the article, “Can I build a swimming pool in my house?” I covered many points to consider in installing a swimming pool in your home including how to get planning permission for a swimming pool, pool safety & inspiration. The fitting of a swimming pool into a home is a the dream of many [...]
Loft Conversions have remained fairly popular since I first started designing property & is perhaps even more in demand now than ever before – especially in dense urban areas where the alternative choices for that fourth bedroom are somewhat limited. Note: (22 July 10) For inspiration for Loft Conversions and Planning, we have just added [...]
When looking at residential home designs, whether designing yourself or choosing one, two important parts of you home are the entrance and the living room. Both should be carefully planned.
Want to create a brand new space upstairs? We all want something snazzy in our home, maybe to show off to the family, prove to daddy that he was wrong about how incompetent you were as a child, or maybe just to enjoy the comfort of falling asleep in a place that feels really nice [...]
Conservatories: A guide through the corridors of local authority’s conservatory planning requirements. The fact is that home improvement is one of the largest growth areas in our economy today. Many people today are improving there home as opposed to moving because it’s cheaper. The most common home improvement are conservatories followed by extensions and loft [...]
‘Utilizing the space that a loft conversion can provide will give much needed living accommodation within your home and will probably add value to your property as well…’
What could possibly be more exciting for your children then for them to have their own loft playroom? Every journey up the stairs to the loft conversion would be an adventure – their own private kingdom to play, create and have fun. Safety is paramount of course and will be mostly addressed in your building [...]
Here is a short video about how a Loft Conversion is built. Despite the strong Yankee accent, us Brits find a lot of the videos provided by our overseas Colony very much appreciated.
Building a terrace house loft conversion is no more difficult than a conversion in any other type of property. Older terraced houses especially can be ideal for loft conversions as the angle of the roof is steep enough to allow for plenty of headroom and you don’t even have to build a dormer. By the [...]
Ever wonder how the stars you see on TV live? Though most are private about their homes, you can find some inspiring images of celebrity homes of the some of our favorite stars.
Home design and decorating has a vast many categories and “genres”. One which came to our attention was the use of graffiti when decorating. Graffiti can be associated with a decadent society or other things but in this day and age, the use of graffiti is become more and more prevalent in art, branding, marketing and interior design.
With modern technology advancing and new software being released every year, all with the goal in mind of providing better visual services for planning and inspiration, almost every industry has been effected by these software advances. Manual drawings and sketches are becoming a thing from the past, and these days anyone looking for a full [...]
Working with the elements You can add all sorts of interesting aspects to the designing, building, refurbishing and decorating aspects of your home by bringing outdoor elements inside your home. Window Light Consider an empty room with a window. One approach is to fill it with some functional furniture, decorate the window with curtains and [...]
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