Modernising your home is something that we see every day on television with ’60 Minute Makeover’ or ‘Changing Rooms’. Both give you the impression that it is easy to modernise your home and you can do it ‘on a budget’. Unfortunately, modernising your home is rarely as easy as the tv programmes suggest! It takes research, planning, careful execution and often means you will need to deal with some crisis along the way.
Over 25% of detached homes are built by individuals each year and many build to get exactly the home they wanted or to save money. In this article I look at how you can get support from the government for your self-build project.
Self build is a task many people think, often wrongly, is above their skill level. The only thing you really need to know is what type of home you want to build, in reality you don't do much of the actual building yourself, that's what you hire the professionals for. In this article I look at the various things you need to consider when your contemplating a self-build project.
