Grand Designs handbook: the blueprint for building your dream home

TV's architecture and design guru Kevin McCloud shares his passion and expertise in this brilliant guide to designing and building your own home, illustrated with the most memorable houses from the award-winning Channel 4 series

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Main Author: McCloud, Kevin 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Collins 2006
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Summary:TV's architecture and design guru Kevin McCloud shares his passion and expertise in this brilliant guide to designing and building your own home, illustrated with the most memorable houses from the award-winning Channel 4 series
Item Description:Includes index
Introduction -- Part 1. Thinking -- People : you -- People : everybody else -- Place : a plot on the landscape -- Place : a place on the planet -- Place : a plan on the map -- Part 2. Dreaming -- Daring to dream -- New urban : city slick -- New suburban : the new cool -- New rural : urbs in rus -- New use : clever conversion -- New life : care, repair and restoration -- Part 3. Doing -- Plotting & scheming -- Planning policy & the planning police -- Getting your head around a building : drawings -- Building regulations -- Managing the project -- Managing the money -- Useful contacts -- Index
Physical Description:287 pages color illustrations 26 cm

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