Self-Build
Building your own home is the only way that you can truly get the house you want. Imagine living in a house that has been designed around your unique needs as a family, your own personalities, tastes, and desires for extra space, the number of bedrooms, bathrooms and even taps. Even the positioning of the windows, colour of the bricks or render, the size and shape of the roof and the shape of the garden can be designed around your needs.More and more people are building their own homes each year — between 18-20,000 new homes were built in 2005, making the army of self-builders the single largest housebuilder in the country: bigger than any of the big names such as Westbury, Redrow or Barratts. Every one of these houses looks different in some way; some are traditional in style, being authentic replicas of Georgian, Tudor and Victorian homes, with warm, cosy interiors and plenty of cottage appeal; some are radically contemporary in design, with white rendered exteriors, flat roofs, vast areas of glazing and large, open plan interiors. What unites them is the singular determination of their owners to refuse to follow the mainstream and accept what commercial developers decide what they should have in a house.
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