The Self-Build Book: How to Enjoy Designing and Building Your Own Home

by Jon Broome

A guide to all aspects of building for oneself. It relates personal experience of putting theory into practice, gives a range of built examples and includes a practical guide to organizing a project covering land, finance, permissions and professional help. It also contains a detailed manual on the Walter Segal method of timber-frame construction, because of its particular advantage to self-builders. The authors argue for a housing policy that would extend self-build opportunities.

Paperback

Published August 1, 1995

Reviews

[Lesley Arrowsmith · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've been lucky enough to visit the house that Brian and his wife Maureen built up above the Wye Valley. It's a beautiful spot, and a beautiful house, and the book is full of useful and interesting tips to help the reader go and do likewise.