Grand Designs Handbook: The Blueprint for Building Your Dream Home by Kevin McCloud |
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Buying a house is often cited as one of the most traumatic experiences life can offer. But buying, as viewers of the TV series Grand Designs know, is a piece of cake compared with actually building the thing yourself. In the book accompanying the series, Kevin McCloud is a sure-footed guide to the whole process, providing a mass of detailed instruction to help the would-be builder from idea to reality, and following the fortunes of eight sets of self-builders as they attempt to build their dream homes. A barn- style house in Oxfordshire, an eco-house in Suffolk ("complete with composting toilets"), a concrete and glass structure in suburban Doncaster, construction of straw bales and sand- bags in Islington and a converted water-tower are among the very different projects featured. Their builders need great reserves of determination and ingenuity, for the tribulations are immense. From finding a plot to build on, through the bureaucracy of planning restrictions and legal considerations--even determining the ownership of land can be far from simple--to design, logistics and project management, the obstacles are hair- raising, but the satisfactions to be gained on completion are profound. All the builders share a sense of commitment and a belief that that they are embarking on a new phase in their lives, tantamount in some cases to a kind of religious conversion. --Robin Davidson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Grand Designs" provides inspiration and information to anyone thinking of taking on the challge of building their own house. During the 1990s architects and designers have increasingly called for us to change our houses to reflect the way we live, exchanging poky kitchens for larger living spaces, having more room than one bathroom and taking the surrounding environment into our plans. What better way of accomadating such demands than by designing and building your own home, creating a living space suited to your changing lifestyle? This aspirational book not only provides a guide to the series, it illustrates the increasingly fashionable desire to design and build a home of one's own.
Buying a house is often cited as one of the most traumatic experiences life can offer. But buying, as viewers of the TV series Grand Designs know, is a piece of cake compared with actually building the thing yourself. In the book accompanying the series, Kevin McCloud is a sure-footed guide to the whole process, providing a mass of detailed instruction to help the would-be builder from idea to reality, and following the fortunes of eight sets of self-builders as they attempt to build their dream homes. A barn- style house in Oxfordshire, an eco-house in Suffolk ("complete with composting toilets"), a concrete and glass structure in suburban Doncaster, construction of straw bales and sand- bags in Islington and a converted water-tower are among the very different projects featured. Their builders need great reserves of determination and ingenuity, for the tribulations are immense. From finding a plot to build on, through the bureaucracy of planning restrictions and legal considerations--even determining the ownership of land can be far from simple--to design, logistics and project management, the obstacles are hair- raising, but the satisfactions to be gained on completion are profound. All the builders share a sense of commitment and a belief that that they are embarking on a new phase in their lives, tantamount in some cases to a kind of religious conversion. --Robin Davidson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Grand Designs" provides inspiration and information to anyone thinking of taking on the challge of building their own house. During the 1990s architects and designers have increasingly called for us to change our houses to reflect the way we live, exchanging poky kitchens for larger living spaces, having more room than one bathroom and taking the surrounding environment into our plans. What better way of accomadating such demands than by designing and building your own home, creating a living space suited to your changing lifestyle? This aspirational book not only provides a guide to the series, it illustrates the increasingly fashionable desire to design and build a home of one's own.
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