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The Handbook of Home Design: An Architect’s Blueprint for Shaping your Home

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In this era of 'don't move, improve' and 'buy old not new', many people's homes have adapted to changing circumstances and tightening budgets. But to Laura Jane Clark, this doesn't mean you have to compromise. Whether you're longing for an extension to bring in light or trying to find a better use for neglected nooks and crannies, The Handbook of Home Design offers room plans, case studies and practical tips to regenerate and revitalise the place you call home, all without breaking the bank. Sprinkled in are anecdotes from Laura's career, covering common and unusual interior design cases, including a house that needed an economical kitchen for a multi-generational family and a single-storey home that required stairless access. However, like Laura says any property can be renovated into a lovely home. You might not even need to go on a house hunt, your current home could be turned into a Forever Home. She is one of two architects on the programme which, for the first time ever, uses virtual reality to help people see how their house could look after a renovation rather than trying to understand a 2D drawing or a render and having to use your imagination. Donning the goggles means the clients (and we, via our televisions) can actually walk through the newly designed spaces and understand them in scale and size. It’s a fascinating show with Laura competing against another architect Robert Jamison for the best solution to a couple’s design dilemma. One of the designs is then chosen and realised. Knight, Rebecca (June 10, 2021). "An architect reveals three ways to tell if a house has renovation potential". Ideal Home. Laura also builds and designs her own furniture and interiors, doing so in association with Universal Cloud Cover, and has worked as an Architectural Assistant for Guy Greenfield Architects. On Your Home Made Perfect, Laura is known for creating impressive architectural designs that revolutionise people’s unloved spaces and homes into something that they are proud to call their own. Laura’s projects encompass creating real houses for real people- creating homes that people can truly live in rather than the colossal glass skyscrapers that architects often design.

Ugly House to Lovely House with George Clarke: Series 1 Episode 3 - Hertfordshire - All 4". www.channel4.com. Look at their past work and it doesn’t have to be super high end. Go to smaller practices and look for passion [in what they do]. But also you need to come in with your own ideas of what you want. Get it clear in your head so you can brief on that. Often you meet and chat and everything goes out of your head so write it down,” she advises. design by architect laura jane clark As well as making those more permanent decorating changes (and not being afraid to dabble in something new), there are some simple swaps you can make at home to improve your space. Laura Jane Clark wants to democratize the whole concept of residential architectural design and empower you to redesign your spaces by giving you the language and ability to confidently communicate your vision, get the most out of your design and ultimately love your finished home. Whether you are a long-term homeowner, first-time buyer or simply visualising your dream space, no matter what your budget is, this unique insight into Laura's process allows you to achieve both the design you want and the home you need. Those are the things that I wouldn't touch normally,' says Laura. 'I don't think I have ever applied to get electric mains moved because it is so expensive.I was walking past it in South London and there was a broken skylight and and I could peer in and see that it looked big. I managed to get hold of the council and visit and I discovered that the ceilings were really high – 3m – and that there was a space I could make into a courtyard and I just thought I could make something amazing out of it.” converted underground public toilet by laura jane clark before image by Fiona Murray This then is the genius of the show. Their modelling allows you to see how the sun fills a room at 7am and how it has travelled by 7pm. The VR means you can see where the sun hits a wall and what would happen if you removed that wall and put it somewhere else. a b "Former toilets provide convenient living for Londoners". January 25, 2013 – via www.bbc.co.uk. Laura Jane Clark wants to democratize the whole concept of residential architectural design and empower you to redesign your spaces by giving you the language and ability to confidently communicate your vision, get the most out of your design and ultimately love your finished home. Whether you are a long-term homeowner, first-time buyer or simply visualizing your dream space, no matter what your budget is, this unique insight into Laura's process allows you to achieve both the design you want and the home you need.

And now who doesn’t want a Narnia wardrobe in their garden? Despite this zany plan, Laura is, as I mentioned, fantastically down to earth, a quality which is not often levelled at architects, often men, who seem to want to build glass skyscrapers rather than wardrobes – which may or may not lead to Narnia. Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous. THE HANDBOOK OF HOME DESIGN distils Laura’s wealth of experience and enthusiasm giving you an accessible yet detailed guide to design, empowering you with the tools and knowledge to shape your home how you want.I love learning about the author's rules for home design - I had some kind of idea about them but didn't fully understand it or know how to use them correctly. I also enjoy the imagery because it really helps me visualise the points being made, for example, ways to utilise space and structural properties. It’s looking at the space and how you use it and not being compromised by it. You can alter your space to work for you and not the other way around.” Over the last ten years, I have carried out well over four hundred initial design meetings where I have worked out a concept design for the homeowners or renters. Throughout this time, I have developed a design method that, by sharing with you in these webinars, will help you devise the best way to approach all your design dilemmas and will allow you to look at your own plans with fresh eyes.

Clark writes for magazines such as Ideal Home, [13] Home Building and Renovation, [14] and Real Homes, and has a monthly column in Reclaim Magazine. [15] She presents at trade shows and exhibitions, and talks at schools and universities. She is currently writing a book The Handbook of Home Design: An Architect’s Blueprint for Shaping Your Home, [16] due for publication in September 2022. This is the only book on interior design a novice like me can understand. I have an eye for design but hadn't a clue about interior design - due to buy a house soon and needed guidance. I was looking for something with great depth but easy explanations and this is it. I always look for high ceilings, not necessarily huge high ceilings, but you can do a lot with them,' says Laura. She explains that you don't necessarily need big windows, but high ceilings are a must as they are often missing from contemporary homes. But what we can’t see [from a set of 2D drawings] is how that box might make the rest of the house darker. Or how the spaces will flow into each other. That it might actually be better if we extended less. It’s about changing people’s perceptions.” design by architect laura jane clark A lot of contemporary houses have a lot shorter ceilings so just over 2 metres, and there was a change in planning regulations to stop that,' she warns.

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This might sound controversial, but I don't like it when the whole room is painted one colour,' Laura tells House Beautiful UK. 'There's a trend for wrapping the whole room — including woodwork — in the same colour but I find it a little bit bland.'

Laura Jane Clarke is an architect who specialises in residential properties. In her case that means, and I cannot stress this enough, in real houses for real people. She’s not interested in glass skyscrapers and million pound budgets. For her it’s about – as the tagline on the podcast goes – making your home really work for you. I was thrilled to be able to interview her for the show this week where she told us about her first major project; the conversion of a public loo that she lived in for several months – and which is now rented out to a tenant – creating a Narnia wardrobe in her garden, and, of course, working on the BBC2 TV show Your Home Made Perfect. laura jane clark of your home made perfect tv show I would always look to where those are. and if they're on the outside of the house brilliant - if they are in a kind of weird place inside the house, that's something to bear in mind that you won't be able to move them. I always kind of look for the fixed points that you have to workaround.' Darvill, Josh (May 20, 2021). "Your Home Made Perfect new series arrives on BBC Two bigger than before". TellyMix.Design trends come and go, but which popular interior fad do es TV architect Lau ra Jane Clark wish homeowners would leave in the past?

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