For people who want to improve their home but don't know how to navigate the world of building, or understand how to get tradesmen to arrive on time and complete jobs on budget - a complete how-to of assessing renovation needs, allocating a budget and a timeframe.
Renovation can be awful. It's not like the television shows - it's dirtier, harder and more stressful than any close-up can capture. It doesn't matter if you live in an apartment and need to repaint the lounge room or if you live in a harbourside mansion and need to rebuild the entire house, you can just about guarantee that things you haven't anticipated will go wrong, the budget will blow out and you'll want to shout at someone. But help is at hand.
Planning Your Perfect Home Renovation is your blueprint to a stress-free, well-planned and well-budgeted renovation that improves the value of your home. It helps you to plan a renovation to suit your available time, experience and money. It will also:
* Introduce you to the three R's: repairs, refurbishment and rebuilding
* Provide examples of room-by-room mission statements for easy planning
* Show you how to work out cost estimates and schedules
* Help you to build good relationships with builders and tradespeople
* Show you what happened in three real renovations: in a unit, a brick-veneer house and a semi
* Give you lots of money-saving and design tips
* Include helpful and practical diagrams, floor plans and tables
Planning Your Perfect Home Renovation is a complete how-to of assessing all your renovation needs. If you're thinking about improving your home (and want to survive the experience), you need this book.
In the middle of her second renovation, Alex May is the perfect person to write this book. She is a freelance writer who specialises in property and design. She writes property and design stories for The Sydney Morning Herald's Domain section and also has a column in The Sun Herald called Worth a Look.
Author bio:
Alex May is a freelance writer and teacher who specialises in property and design. She writes property and design stories for The Sydney Morning Herald's Domain section and also has a column in The Sun Herald called Worth a Look. In addition, she is the freelance Homes editor for New Woman magazine where she styles and writes their Homes page each month.
Alex has already tortured herself renovating an inner-city terrace and is about to do it all again with a ramshackle heritage-listed cottage in Sydney's inner west.
Category:
Lifestyle
ISBN:
9781741146295
Table Of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction to renovating
Chapter 2 The buck starts here
Chapter 3 The real value of renovating
Chapter 4 Your heart's desire: working out what you want
Chapter 5 Plans, estimates and schedules
Chapter 6 Repairs and maintenance: make it a mantra
Chapter 7 Refurbishing
Chapter 8 Rebuilding
Chapter 9 Kitchens
Chapter 10 Bathrooms
Chapter 11 Living and sleeping areas
Chapter 12 Dealing with builders and trades
Chapter 13 Sarah and Tim renovate a unit
Chapter 14 Tom and Belinda renovate a brick-veneer house
Chapter 15 Roy and Camille renovate a semi
Chapter 16 The final word on planning
A glossary
Handy websites
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
August 2005
Page Extent:
208
Format:
Paperback
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Subject:
Home renovation & extension