Kategoria BISAC: House & Home >> Remodeling & Renovation - General

This volume contains ideas for the builder to improve his bottom line with cosmetic ideas for large and small jobs, such as changing appliances faceplates, adding windows to brighten rooms, refinishing (instead of replacing) vanities and bathtubs, refacing cabinets, and building in shelves. When structural remodelling is too expensive, remodellers can avoid losing a sale with cosmetic remodelling projects.

* Provides everything builders, designers, and remodelers need to know about using stock kitchen cabinetry to create functional built-ins throughout the home
* Includes 750 detailed drawings, photos, etc.

If you're a building professional with the technical skills and desire to work on your own business, the Third Edition of R. Dodge Woodson's - Be a Successful Building Contractor will give you the business savvy you need to set up and manage a profit-making enterprise Packed with dozens of handy business forms, the book will help you define your business requirements-find desirable building lots-build on speculation-computerize your operations-track financial transactions-hire top-notch employees-and much more. You get everything you need to: choose the best business structure for your...

Organized according to the actual stages of construction, these titles detail everything needed to successfully plan, manage, and complete a job. All are heavily illustrated and contain valuable tip-boxes throughout.

AVOID COSTLY MISTAKES WHILE ADDING VALUE AND LIVING SPACE TO YOUR HOME

Increase the livable square footage and market value of your home--without succumbing to the budget-busting pitfalls that typically plague home improvement projects. With Tips & Traps for Remodeling Your Attic, Basement, and Garage, you'll find everything you need to see your project through--from planning and design to assembling the right team of pros. You'll also do it without the expense and hassle of an addition, by using the existing elements of your home to maximum potential.

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Do you long to listen to your favorite CD from anywhere in your house? To set up a wireless network so you can access the Internet in any room? To install an iron-clad security system? To fire up the coffee pot while you're still asleep and wake up with automated lighting? Smart home technology can help you do just that

Smart Homes For Dummies, Third Edition, shows you how easy it can be to create and live in a cutting-edge, fully connected home--without breaking your bank account. With this user-friendly guide, you'll discover all the latest trends and gadgets in home networking,...

Before you drive that first nail, this is the guide you need--thousands of hints, tips, and professional tricks of the trade

Authoritative, detailed, and fully illustrated, Rules of Thumb for Home Building, Improvement, and Repair gives you all the inside information you need to make your home improvement project go faster and easier. For this all-in-one volume, do-it-yourself experts Gene and Katie Hamilton, founders of the online service HouseNet, have distilled the best professional home repair and remodeling information.

Rules of Thumb will help you avoid the...

"This is My House" is the inspirational street guide for anyone preparing for a home renovation, written by a Professional Engineer who has lived it. With over twenty years of Structural & Forensic Engineering experience, Eric W. Cowley has guided home owners through the choppy waters of construction projects. In "This is My House," he shares his collection of professional and personal insights, which will equip you, inspire you and keep you motivated during a very trying time. You will learn: How to stay in control of your project. How to maximize situations for your benefit. What to spend...

Using laymen's terms, and with sketches and diagrams only in the appendix, this informative primer gets to the nitty gritty and explains why some buildings have more exterior challenges than others, what can be done about them, and why it should matter to your. "Now I Understand" will serve to educate you about the exterior maintenance challenges and responsibilities that you have as a property owner in the metropolitan area. Mr. Cowley draws upon his extensive professional experience investigating, diagnosing, and repairing buildings and parking structures. He provides savvy advice that...

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HOME RENOVATION IN ON HANDY VOLUME
Renovating your home has never been so easy -- thanks to Sharon Hanby-Robie's helpful advice. The author of the hugely popular My Name Isn't Martha, But I Can Decorate My Home assists you in renovating your house to perfection in this professional, no-nonsense book that will help you achieve Martha Stewart's results without spending a fortune. From simply adding new accessories to your kitchen or bath to gutting the entire first floor, interior designer Hanby-Robie will show you how to create a living...

'Altering Houses and Small-scale Residential Development' is a practical guide for home owners and those undertaking residential building projects. It is also useful for students and emerging professionals concerned with the built environment, especially small-scale development procedures. Undertaking house alterations can be daunting, not least because considerations of cost, design and method can simultaneously demand urgent and careful attention. In addition, there are regulations and the law to be satisfied, contracts to be entered into and a host of potential problems concerned with the...

This estimating guide for repair and remodeling work focuses on the unique problems of estimating renovations of existing structures. Helps you determine the true costs of remodeling through careful evaluation of architectural details and site visits. With detailed coverage on:

• Best practices for using RSMeans cost data along with full estimating examples
• Step-by-step estimating guidance, coupled with a CSI division-by-division discussion of potential pitfalls and two sample estimates
• Estimating by CSI Division, unit price and assemblies sample estimates
• A...

This is every incompetent contractor's worst nightmare. A book that gives YOU, the consumer, the knowledge and understanding of the home building or renovation process. With help from this book, you will be able to hold contractors to higher standards to produce a more efficient and reliable home. No more excuses from the contractor as to why the home didn't turn out the way you planned it. This book has all the information that home owners need. Each chapter goes over the do's and don'ts of every process from planning to moving day. It even provides sample contract forms to help you create...

Sustainable design has made great strides in recent years; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model of sustainability.
In Building For Life, Kellert examines the fundamental interconnectedness of people and nature, and how the loss of this connection results in a diminished quality of life.
This thoughtful new work illustrates how architects and designers can use simple methods to...

A step by step guide to making an old kitchen into a new one by refacing your cabinets. Advice is given on how to choose the right materials, with illustrations showing how to remove old cabinet doors, repair and reface cabinet boxes with wood, or plastic laminate, and then replace the doors with new ones.

The kitchen is the social center of the home -- a place for eating, a place for working, and a place to organize everything from spices to household finances. Because kitchens serve so many different needs, creating a new kitchen that not only serves these many needs but works well is a major challenge.

Featuring over 200 color photos, illustrations, and charts, Kitchens That Work uses a lifestyle design model to guide the reader through the complex process of designing and creating a great kitchen -- one that works for everyone living in the house. The...

Although energy costs are near an all-time low, modern energy efficiency offers more than just savings: It offers comfort. With the help of this book, homeowners and builders can build lasting comfort into their homes -- and save money.

This new addition to the best-selling Best of Fine Homebuilding series brings together 29 of the best articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine that cover topics from choosing ductwork and housewrap to building more efficient fireplaces and storm windows. The articles detail specific projects home-owners or builders can do to improve the energy efficiency of...