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The Book
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 want to repaint the lounge room or live in a waterside mansion and want to rebuild the entire house, this book can help you. Most renovations mean things go wrong, budgets blow out and you want to shout at someone. But help is at hand.
Planning Your Perfect Home Renovation is a 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 also:
- introduces you to the three Rs: repair, refurbish and rebuild
- provides room-by-room mission statements for easy planning
- shows you how to work out cost estimates and schedule trades
- helps build good relationships with builders and tradespeople
- shows what happened in three real renovations: in a unit, a house and a semi
- offers loads of money-saving and design tips
- includes practical and helpful diagrams, floor plans and tables.
Planning Your Perfect Home Renovation is a complete guide to assessing all your renovation needs. If you're thinking about improving a home or investment property - and want to survive the experience - you need this book.
Planning Your Perfect Renovation: What’s In It?
chapter by chapter...
Chapter One: Introduction to Renovation
- The three Rs of renovation
- Renovating rigmarole
- Getting started - the floorplan
Chapter Two: The Buck Starts Here
- Don't wreck your property value with renovation
- The real costs of renovation
- Working out what you can afford
- How to work out costs
- Guesstimating
- Step-by-step renovation budgeting
- Cutting renovation costs
Chapter Three: The Real Value Of Renovating
- Property values: what the experts say
- What determines property values
- So how do I work out the value of renovating?
- Overcapitalising
Chapter Four: Your Heart's Desire: Working Out What You Want
- What other people want
- Retaining property values
- Renovating to your desires - creating a room-by-room mission statement
- Does your budget match your desires
Chapter Five: Plans, Estimates and Schedules
- Estimating Costs
- The time scheduler
Chapter Six: Repairs and Maintenance: Make It A Mantra
- Scrub-up maintenance
- Regular maintenance
- Chapter Seven: Refurbishing
- The rules of refurb
- The most valuable rooms to refurbish
- Refining your refurbishment plan
Chapter Eight: Rebuilding
- Do the rebuild test
- Rebuilding as alterations
- Demolishing to rebuild
- Relationships with builders and professionals
- The pre-construction and design stages
- Approvals and building regulations
- Navigating the planning approval process
- Chapter Nine: Kitchens
- Kitchen components
- Kitchen design - the work triangle
- How to save money on kitchens
- The sequence of renovating a kitchen
- Kitchen planning template
Chapter Ten: Bathrooms
- What you want in your bathroom
- Pampering bathrooms
- Bathroom components
- The sequence of renovating a bathroom
- Bathroom planning template
- Chapter Eleven: Living and Sleeping Areas
- A living space checklist
- Sleeping space checklist
- Lighting Up
- Getting wired
- On the floor
- Window coverings
- Heating up and cooling down
- Painting - the finishing touch
Chapter Twelve: Dealing With Builders and Trades
- The subcontracting life
- Why changing your mind costs money
- The benefits of trust
- What's the difference between a builder and a tradesperson?
- Writing a specification or brief
- Getting quotes
- Working with a subcontractor
- Contracts
- When things go wrong
- Types of tradespeople and what they do
Chapter Thirteen: Sarah and Tim Renovate a Unit
- A real case study
Chapter Fourteen: Tom and Belinda Renovate a Brick Veneer House
- A real case study
Chapter Fifteen: Roy and Camille Renovate a Semi
- A real case study