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Homebuilding & Renovating Show
The National H&R Show 18-21 March 2010 at the NEC in Birmingham

Homebuilding & Renovating Show

Houseplan

Houseplan for a new 2 storey home in the style of a traditional long house with 3 bedrooms

Houseplan

Design advice

Design Masterclass: Extending a Cottage

Cottages are the quintessential English house style, but their size often means they’re prime candidates for extension. Michael Holmes reveals how to get it right while preserving and even enhancing the cottage’s unique charm.

Extending a Cottage

Extending a Cottage - Design Solutions

An important part of the appeal of the cottage is its proportions, and any new extension should seek to preserve this. The design of any new addition, therefore, should be subservient to the existing cottage.

Cottage

A Modern Makeover

A bland, characterless 1970s house is transformed inside and out, for modern, more energy-efficient living.

A modern makeover

Design Masterclass: Barn Conversions

Converting a barn is a chance to create a unique home in a rural location — so why do so many people get it wrong? Michael Holmes explains the key design issues, how to please the planners, and how to avoid the common mistakes.

Design Masterclass: Barn Conversions

Barn Conversions: Design Solutions

Converting a barn is a chance to create a unique home in a rural location — so why do so many people get it wrong? Michael Holmes explains the key internal layout design issues and how to go about extending a conversion, plus advice from architect Damien Blower, and five essential design tips.

Barn Conversions: Design Solutions

A Cottage Re-Crafted

Careful restoration work breathes new life into a pair of damp, derelict foresters’ cottages in the Forest of Dean, despite problems with subsidence, flooding and a lack of services on site.

A Cottage Re-Crafted

Contemporary Kitchens: Your Questions Answered

Contemporary kitchens have caught up with traditional in the popularity stakes, but just how do you create a sleek, chic room that serves such a practical purpose too? Natasha Brinsmead answers the most common contemporary kitchen questions.

What all contemporary units do have in common is that they are free of any fuss

An American Makeover

Weatherboarding, slate roofing and a new extension transform a 1980s industrial unit in Cheshire into an American-style home with a sizeable garage and a games room.

An American Makeover

What Makes an Award-Winning Home?

If you’re wondering just what makes a good home truly great – like the winners of this year’s Awards – then read on. Michael Holmes reveals what you can learn from the class of 2009, and some of the emerging design trends to follow.

What Makes an Award-Winning Home?

Award-Winning Homes: Design Trends

As part of the 2009 Homebuilding & Renovating Awards, Michael Holmes reveals what you can learn from this year's winners and some of the emerging design trends for the coming year, including cladding, basements, upside-down living and inside/outside living.

Timber cladding is just one of the emerging house design trends for 2010

Transforming a Victorian Terrace

This Victorian terrace lost its charm during a 1970s ‘makeover’. Designer Steven James Taylor explains how it was restored to its former glory using new doors and windows, cast-iron downpipes and a fresh coat of paint.

Transforming a Victorian Terrace

Extending Interiors to the Outdoors

By creating an almost invisible link between inside and out using large glazed doors, french doors or folding sliding doors you can almost add an extra room and give your home an increased sense of space as well as increasing natural light, says Melanie Griffiths.

The sliding glass doors on the rear extension to this remodelled 1930s home really bring more light and space.

Cladding: New Façades for Ugly Homes

All too often the potential of ‘boring’ houses goes by unnoticed, when in actual fact, all that is really needed is a change of cladding. Natasha Brinsmead explains how you can transform a house, and add valuable 'kerb appeal' by adding a new exterior.

Transform a boring house with cladding

Before & After: A Contemporary Barn

An architect transforms a dilapidated barn into a modern ancillary space for living and working, complete with a new stylish façade including new render, boarding, rainwater goods and garage doors.

Transforming a dilapidated barn with a new stylish façade

Building a Balcony

A balcony can be a delightful feature to add to your home — but ensuring it complements the rest of the house is crucial, says Clive Fewins.

Building a balcony

Conservatories: How to Get Them Right

It’s no wonder conservatories are so much derided when over 90 per cent of them are simply picked out of a catalogue. However, designed correctly, they can be a tremendous addition to any house, says Clive Fewins.

Conservatories: How to Get Them Right

Dormer Windows: How to Get Them Right

Delicate design nuances are critical in ensuring dormers on homes both new and old look right. But why are so many gotten so wrong? Clive Fewins explains.

A Guide to Dormer Windows

Loft Conversions

Unused attic space can become valuable living accommodation quite easily — and at surprisingly low cost. James Hatter explains all you need to know.

Loft conversions

Loft Conversions: Case Studies

Unused attic space can become valuable living accommodation quite easily. H&R looks at two examples of this in action.

Loft Conversions: Case Studies

From Bland to Grand: Post-War Renovations

We reveal how uninspiring post-war houses can become amazing homes.

From Bland to Grand

From Bland to Grand: Assessing Potential

Uninspiring post war houses can become amazing homes, but the era in which the house was built will influence the project.

Bland to Grand: Assessing Potential

From Bland to Grand: Case Studies

Six examples of drab post-war homes that have been transformed. It may be plain or even ugly, but post-war housing can offer renovators enormous potential and great value for money.

Bland to Grand Case Studies

Contemporary Living in an Old Home: Part One

We reveal the design and planning implications of transforming your period home for modern life, and how to achieve harmony between old and new

Contemporary Living in an Old Home

Contemporary Living in an Old Home: Part Two

We reveal the design and planning implications of transforming your period home for modern life, and how to achieve harmony between old and new

Contemporary Interiors

Contemporary Living in an Old Home: Case Studies

We reveal the design and planning implications of transforming your period home for modern life, and how to achieve harmony between old and new

Contemporary Extensions

Extending Your Home: Part Two

A comprehensive guide to planning an extension that will maximise both your living space and the resale value of your home

Phillips - Extension

Extension Types

H&R looks at the various types of extension available

A Modular Extension

Landscaping: Water Works

Introducing a water feature into your garden can add a touch of sparkle and create a relaxing ambience, says Sarah Davies

Landscaping: Water Features

Lighting: Your Room-by-Room Guide

A good lighting design is not only essential in practical terms making a house an easy place to live it is also key to creating the right atmosphere: one that can be tweaked to suit the occasion. Natasha Brinsmead explains how to create the perfect lighting scheme for each room of the home.

Lighting: Your Room-by-Room Guide

Renovation Notebook - Additions to brickwork

When extending or renovating a period property, any new brickwork should be carefully matched to create a seamless join with the old. Clive Fewins reports.

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