Jane and Darren took the plunge and built their own place (Picture: Daniel Lynch) Many of us dream of building our own home, creating something for our exact needs. Yet, when faced with the option of ...

The London-based practice has designed a 125m² two-storey XCK House on a corner site in the town’s suburb of Tilehurst. The three-bedroom house will replace a bungalow known as ‘the blue house’, which ...

Product specification guide: advances in treatment and preservation are increasing timber’s sustainability Increasingly timber is being specified as a rainscreen cladding system for external walls. It ...

A NEW two-bedroom bungalow with timber cladding and zinc-and-slate roof is on the cards for the hamlet of Clawthorpe. Mr and Mrs Duckett have applied for planning consent to build on the sheep grazing ...

The beauty of a vaulted ceiling, a common feature in many single storey timber frame homes is of course that it gives you ...

The 3,283-square-foot south-facing home stretches east to west on a plot of land in the undulating Austrian countryside Althöflein. Large triple-glazed windows line the south facade and overlook a ...