The Handbook of Home Design

Name: The Handbook of Home Design
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781914239267
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An Architect’s Blueprint for Shaping your Home

By Laura Jane Clark

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The Handbook of Home Design by Laura Jane Clark offers expert architectural solutions and creative designs that help you optimise your home spaces without breaking the bank.

Drawing on over 15 years of experience, Laura guides you step-by-step through understanding your home, reading plans, writing briefs, sketching designs, and confidently overseeing the building process.

Packed with practical tips, inspiration, and technical advice, this book empowers you to create functional, beautiful rooms with clever storage and thoughtful layout – whether you are a first-time buyer, a seasoned homeowner, or simply dreaming of your perfect home.
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This book is ideal for homeowners seeking to remodel or personalise their living spaces, DIY enthusiasts interested in home design, first-time buyers wanting insight into architectural planning, and anyone keen to understand how to communicate and realise their design vision effectively on any budget.

Laura Jane Clark brings you inspiring architectural ideas and design solutions for updating your home without breaking the bank.

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Architectural solutions & designs to optimise the spaces in your home without spending a fortune.

Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous. The Handbook of Home Design distils Laura's wealth of experience and enthusiasm, giving you an accessible yet detailed guide to design, empowering you with the tools and knowledge to shape your home how you want.

Throughout your home design journey, whether large or small, Laura takes you each step of the way from understanding your home, reading a plan and writing a brief, right through to sketching your own design and having the confidence to get what you want on the building site. Packed full of tips and tricks, inspiration and technical know-how, The Handbook of Home Design is like having Laura by your side, showing you how to design practical yet beautiful spaces, get more storage into your life and create the home of your dreams.

Laura Jane Clark wants to democratise the whole concept of residential architectural design and empower you to redesign your spaces by giving you the language and ability to confidently communicate your vision, get the most out of your design and ultimately love your finished home. Whether you are a long-term homeowner, first-time buyer or simply visualising your dream space, no matter what your budget is, this unique insight into Laura's process allows you to achieve both the design you want and the home you need.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781914239267

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Kyle Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 196.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 740g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Home & Garden Laura Jane Clark Non-Fiction

About the Author

Laura Jane Clark is an architect and designer specialising in innovative home design, renovation and new-build houses. Cutting her teeth as a labourer on construction sites when she was an architect student, Laura's passion and understanding for building and making shines through in her work. As one of the architect presenters on BBC's Your Home Made Perfect, Laura started her television career when she was featured on the first ever episode of Channel 4's George Clarke's Amazing Spaces with her Crystal Palace underground-toilet conversion and then regularly featured on the series, as well as on Shed of the Year and Ugly House to Lovely House. In 2020, Laura founded Siren Sister (@sirensister), uniting a diverse network of female architects, interior designers, artists and stylists to bring more representation to our screens and media.

Laura has dedicated her career to home design, working on over 400 projects large and small in the UK, Europe and worldwide.