On Thursday (February 13) Newark and Sherwood District Council’s planning committee discussed the latest amended plans which ...

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If you want to boost your home’s usable square meterage, using the space underneath the roof is a great way to do so – and dormer windows could make a conversion feasible. And it’s these projecting ...

Not long ago I was skim coating hundreds of square feet of new drywall in my son’s basement. I added water to the thick ...

A casement window is hinged at the side (either left or right) and typically opens outward, like a door. 'They’re ...

In Vidrà, a small village in the Catalan foothills of the Pyrenees, Taller Sau have designed two semi-detached houses with a regional connection and a high level of structural efficiency.

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He noted that many families were left exposed when their roofs were damaged or totally destroyed. The prime minister also noted that houses that were constructed to the requirements of the ...

Program: Sited on the crest of a vegetated dune adjacent to the Cape Cod National Sea Shore, CopperDrifts was initially conceived as a summer house for a couple and their grown children. As the ...

“We moved to the back of the house then but at around half five or six the back part of the roof came off too, so now half of the roof, front and back, is gone,” Tracey said. At around half ...

The main distinguishing feature is how many sloped roof sections the house has and how the ends are constructed ... The design also reduces flat surfaces and larger overhangs where wind can get caught ...

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