Self-Build: How to Design and Build Your Own Home, Book from RIBA Publishing, Self-Build, 2nd Edition, Architecture
Self-Build: How to Design and Build Your Own Home
3 Oct 2021
Self-Build Book, 2nd Edition
Demystify building your dream home with Self-Build, 2nd Edition, the new jargon-free guide from RIBA Books

To help budding self-builders fully realise their dreams of a bespoke home, Self-Build, 2nd Edition, following to the hugely successful Self-Build: How to Design and Build Your Own Home, published in 2004, has now been released from RIBA Books.
The latest in a line of similarly practical and inspiring books from author-architect Julian Owen, this latest update reflects the evolution the self-build market has undergone and offers thoughtful insight in the form of a friendly, easy-to-understand guide that encourages potential self-builders to realise their dreams. While self-building a home is becoming increasingly popular of late, it was identified in the recently published Review of Custom and Self-Build by Richard Bacon MP, as still being very much a ?missing market?. With potential to deliver between 30,000 and 40,000 self-built homes a year, this market could help provide the extra homes that government needs to help it reach its target of building 300,000 homes a year.
Julian commented: ?This book is the essential companion for aspiring self-builders and anyone about to begin their project. It distils all the practical information needed to build a dream home ...