Kevin McCloud's How to Make Your House a Home (Collins Shorts, Book 3)

Kevin McCloud's How to Make Your House a Home (Collins Shorts, Book 3)

Language: English

Pages: 20

ISBN: B008ZUFL7O

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Collins Shorts – insight in an instant.

Kevin McCloud’s advice for setting up or doing up your home. Kevin will show you the things worth spending your money on, and the things you might cut back on. Helpful and incisive advice on design, construction and style from the foremost voice in modern architectural design.

Collins Shorts are a fresh look at the ebook short, with the emphasis on vibrant design, animated content and expert authors who can provide accessible insight. They satisfy your thirst for knowledge without the need for time commitment.

This ebook will work on all e-readers but delivers its full punch on devices that support colour and animation. Please note the extent is between 20 to 40 pages, depending on your settings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

high-quality materials in the modern world is the restaurant, where you’ll come into contact with linen, horsehair fabric, bone-handled silver, porcelain, crystal glass and hopefully some of the same high quality food. Any good restaurateur knows the value of these materials in enriching the experience of eating well and this is a good lesson to take home. This is going to sound heretical, but why not choose a car on the basis of what it looks and feels like on the inside? Given that is

on standby at any point. In total, appliances left on standby in the UK consume about two power stations’ worth of fuel. Crazy. With the rise of brand, the fashion for technology and the lust for walk-in fridges the last 40 years have also witnessed an unpalatable change in the way we view our homes, not as personal statements, where thrift, character and autobiography matter, but as statements of luxury. To help you avoid an addiction to luxury for its own sake and to help you save

invest in kitchen units and doors that are ecological, recyclable and for that matter probably recycled in the first place, from a company like Chamois Kitchens. I have spent the last twelve years of my life making programmes about people building houses that are, in the main, too big. We don’t need big houses, we just like them. So let me redefine the luxury of space. Having spent a third of my time over the last few years living with my family in a 750-square-foot apartment I can

tell you that the most luxurious space/volume you can own is a cupboard. Proper, clever storage, built into a building, is a miracle space-saving measure, allowing the habitable areas to be clutter free and feel, well, spacious. So before you start to plan that ambitious self-build, buy a catalogue of ‘storage solution’ shelving. Human beings have an odd fascination for the new. It’s not just that as individuals we succumb to the odd new iPod or car; companies, city councils and national

tell you that the most luxurious space/volume you can own is a cupboard. Proper, clever storage, built into a building, is a miracle space-saving measure, allowing the habitable areas to be clutter free and feel, well, spacious. So before you start to plan that ambitious self-build, buy a catalogue of ‘storage solution’ shelving. Human beings have an odd fascination for the new. It’s not just that as individuals we succumb to the odd new iPod or car; companies, city councils and national

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