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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Build It September 2017.
Welcome
It’s awards season at Build It HQ, which means the team has spent the last few weeks sparring over which of the homes we’ve featured in the past year most deserve to be shortlisted for this ye...
Modern village home
Keen to self-build but eager to stay in the community, Dennis and Maureen Stephens came up with a clever contemporary design for a farmland plot that won over the planners WORDS & PHOTOS KATY DONA...
A MAN WITH A PLAN
Finding the perfect home in the UK capital is no mean feat, but Andrew Overin saw the potential to transform a dilapidated terraced house into a modern dwelling WORDS IFEOLUWA ADEDEJI PHOTOS BRUCE HEM...
Out of the ordinary
Kevin and Emma Kniveton’s vernacular cottage is anything but traditional, as their self-build has brought passive house design to the Isle of Man, and could help to kickstart many more projects like i...
Labour of love
Sue and Richard Cansdale had a very special reason for using new government legislation to convert their cattle barn into a compact, characterful rural retreat WORDS HEATHER DIXON PHOTOS DAVID BURTON ...
Best of both worlds
Jayne and Alistair Lewis’s self-build project has resulted in a two-in-one home that complements its rural setting WORDS CAROLINE EDNIE PHOTOS DOUGLAS GIBB
Creating their own home had always a ...