The ROOM BY ROOM series is a set of short essential guides to transform your house into your ideal home. Each one is full of top tips and golden rules from award-winning architect and TV home-improvement guru George Clarke. From designing layouts, budgeting and lighting advice, through to storage solutions, tricks of the trade, finishes, materials and a fully comprehensive resources guide, these guides will fully equip you with all the information you need to improve the space you live in. For novices and experts alike, this is the one-stop guide to creating the best extension for your home.

A guide to tackling the problems experienced in a project of this nature relevant to planning and building control procedures.

'Upgrade' breathes new life into forgotten architecture. Past structures are consciously preserved and revamped, expanded and altered, to create something exciting and enticing. 'Upgrade' explores architectural and design concepts that seek to enhance and repurpose our surroundings, from slight changes to complete renovations. Extensions upon a rooftop. Factories turned into relaxing retreats. Wood additions contrasting with antique brick exteriors. Through engaging anecdotes and inspiriting images, 'Upgrade' provides vibrant exemplars and enthusiasm for revamping existing spaces. Repurposing the unused: be it an empty chapel that becomes an inviting writer's nook or a rotten barn converted into a cozy living space for a small family. The projects illustrate the possibility of adding a touch of the new to the old: farmhouses adorned with modern glass additions or churches whose traditional lines now frame an office. What are ruins to some become another's architectural playground.

Whether your intentions are grand or modest, whether your home is detached or terraced, or Whether your design tastes are traditional or slightly more outré, then you’ll find something to appeal to you. Hopefully you’ll be able to take away some ideas from the stories inside and apply them to your own future projects

Homeowners search continuously for ways in which to rework existing residential space - for improved size, comfort, functionality and financial gain. As demonstrated in this timely publication, an architect must possess significant skill to create such

IF YOU’RE PLANNING TO EXTEND, UPDATE AND TRANSFORM YOUR KITCHEN, Dream Kitchen Extensions will provide you with all the inspiration you need to design your perfect space, whether you’re looking to create a stylish entertaining area, an open-plan kitchen-diner for relaxed family living or a wow-factor space leading out to your garden. Featuring 29 inspiring case studies of real homes, plus expert advice and shopping guides to the latest kitchen designs, hi-tech appliances and essential finishing touches, it’s guaranteed to give you plenty of ideas for your own dream kitchen project.

Extending your home? New kitchen or bathroom? Planning to decorate? With guidance on all your home improvement projects, this book tells you: the time the job will take; the costs of the materials; how difficult it's going to be; and what a professional is going to charge to do it for you; make sure you get value for money; and more.