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Planning Your Perfect Home Renovation:
Save Time and Money with This Essential Guide to
Fuss-free Home Improvements
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 Renovationis 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 Heraldcalled Worth a Look. |
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The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement:
A True Story of Love and Renovation
The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement is a love story that chronicles Virginia's renovation of the house she shared with her husband, John, and the ways in which that process paralleled her own emotional 'renovation' in the year after his death. The house had a chronic rising damp problem and, over that first year, as the house had to dry out, so did our young widow.
The book follows the renovation of the house, from its structural foundations through to the most cosmetic finishing touches. Moving and emotional, this unforgettable memoir also details the humorous and unexpected moments in Virginia's journey. |
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Renovation Nation: Our Obsession with Home
Renovation Nation asks why we have become so wrapped up in our homes. It explores the ways we are distorting our lives in the pursuit of prestige and tax-free capital gains as we play the real estate game with mindless passion. Fixated on interest rates and surrounded by headlines about housing affordability, we remain determined to make our homes bigger and better.
The great Australian dream of owning a home seems to have become the great Australian nightmare. But what about the national home? Is our anxiety about safety and security, about keeping the wrong people out of Australia, or off our beaches, the flipside of this obsession? |
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