The Handbook of Home Design: An Architect’s Blueprint for Shaping your Home

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Oh yes, the dehumidifier. Well for someone who converted a public loo to live in, you can see why a dehumidifier would feel like a good bit of kit. About that? converted underground public toilet by laura jane clark before image by Fiona Murray

Laura Jane Clark is a leading architect, widely known for her work as a TV architect on Your Home Made Perfect for the BBC. After studying at the Liverpool School of Architecture, Laura has enjoyed a successful career as an architect and is now a popular booking to appear at a range of corporate and public events. When booked for corporate events, Laura shares her passions for architecture and promotes women pursuing careers as architects. Laura Jane Clark wants to democratize the whole concept of residential architectural design and empower you to redesign your spaces by giving you the language and ability to confidently communicate your vision, get the most out of your design and ultimately love your finished home. Whether you are a long-term homeowner, first-time buyer or simply visualising your dream space, no matter what your budget is, this unique insight into Laura’s process allows you to achieve both the design you want and the home you need. You don't always need planning permission to transform your home, for more guidance take a look at a guide for what you can build without planning permission. 2. Natural light I think it will push everyone to say ‘yes I am in control of this house and I am going to use an architect, a builder or an interior designer to help me and work with me to give me what I want, because this is what I deserve’. We are just so conditioned to having badly designed and built houses and extensions and it breaks my heart. I like resolving people’s houses because it’s the most important part of our lives. Laura Jane Clark brings you inspiring architectural ideas and design solutions for updating your home without breaking the bank.But Laura, who’s no slouch when it comes to DIY as well as architecture (she’s a welder too which is all a bit Footloose) wasn’t deterred and created a rather beautiful underground flat which she lived in for a while before moving to Scotland to do up an old Glasgow tenement. Knight, Rebecca (June 10, 2021). "An architect reveals three ways to tell if a house has renovation potential". Ideal Home. Clark writes for magazines such as Ideal Home, [13] Home Building and Renovation, [14] and Real Homes, and has a monthly column in Reclaim Magazine. [15] She presents at trade shows and exhibitions, and talks at schools and universities. She is currently writing a book The Handbook of Home Design: An Architect’s Blueprint for Shaping Your Home, [16] due for publication in September 2022. Laura Jane Clark is a British architect, TV presenter and author. Her work includes presenting Your Home Made Perfect with Angela Scanlon on BBC2 and Netflix, Channel 4’s Ugly House to Lovely House, [1] George Clarke's Amazing Spaces and Shed of the Year. [2] She also converted a former underground public lavatory in Crystal Palace into a one-bedroom apartment. [3] Television [ edit ]

I'm about half way through this book, because I'm taking every once of it in and really enjoying it! I'm moving onto interior design now and can't wait!

Laura Jane Clark career

In 2018, Clark joined the BBC to be one of two architects in the television series Your Home Made Perfect with Angela Scanlon, [10] which ran for four seasons with Clark being the only original architect to be kept on the show. [11] [12] Writing [ edit ] Over the last ten years, I have carried out well over four hundred initial design meetings where I have worked out a concept design for the homeowners or renters. Throughout this time, I have developed a design method that, by sharing with you in these webinars, will help you devise the best way to approach all your design dilemmas and will allow you to look at your own plans with fresh eyes.

A lot of contemporary houses have a lot shorter ceilings so just over 2 metres, and there was a change in planning regulations to stop that,' she warns. Laura also builds and designs her own furniture and interiors, doing so in association with Universal Cloud Cover, and has worked as an Architectural Assistant for Guy Greenfield Architects. On Your Home Made Perfect, Laura is known for creating impressive architectural designs that revolutionise people’s unloved spaces and homes into something that they are proud to call their own. Laura’s projects encompass creating real houses for real people- creating homes that people can truly live in rather than the colossal glass skyscrapers that architects often design. Laura Jane Clark wants to democratize the whole concept of residential architectural design and empower you to redesign your spaces by giving you the language and ability to confidently communicate your vision, get the most out of your design and ultimately love your finished home. Whether you are a long-term homeowner, first-time buyer or simply visualizing your dream space, no matter what your budget is, this unique insight into Laura's process allows you to achieve both the design you want and the home you need.Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous. THE HANDBOOK OF HOME DESIGN distils Laura’s wealth of experience and enthusiasm giving you an accessible yet detailed guide to design, empowering you with the tools and knowledge to shape your home how you want. Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect , has spent over 15 years designing, remodeling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous. THE HANDBOOK OF HOME DESIGN distils Laura's wealth of experience and enthusiasm giving you an accessible yet detailed guide to design, empowering you with the tools and knowledge to shape your home how you want. This might sound controversial, but I don't like it when the whole room is painted one colour,' Laura tells House Beautiful UK. 'There's a trend for wrapping the whole room — including woodwork — in the same colour but I find it a little bit bland.' Darvill, Josh (May 20, 2021). "Your Home Made Perfect new series arrives on BBC Two bigger than before". TellyMix. And that is a key point about Laura; she really understands that homes are for living in. With our kids and our stuff. And their stuff. Her plans will always include a hidden cupboard for toys, or a wall of storage for everyone, a sliding door to a music room or a skylight in a hall to allow more light. Because she knows that storage might not be sexy but we all need it.

Amazing Spaces Shed of the Year ran for four series, from 2014 to 2017. Clark then presented designs on two episodes of Ugly House to Lovely House [7] [8] in the first two series of the show before deciding to leave Channel 4. [9] Architects do, after all, have a reputation for coming in and telling you what they want to do rather than listening to what you want to have, I suggest. Those are the things that I wouldn't touch normally,' says Laura. 'I don't think I have ever applied to get electric mains moved because it is so expensive. Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous. THE HANDBOOK OF HOME DESIGN distils Laura's wealth of experience and enthusiasm giving you an accessible yet detailed guide to design, empowering you with the tools and knowledge to shape your home how you want. Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect , has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous. THE HANDBOOK OF HOME DESIGN distils Laura's wealth of experience and enthusiasm giving you an accessible yet detailed guide to design, empowering you with the tools and knowledge to shape your home how you want.In this era of 'don't move, improve' and 'buy old not new', many people's homes have adapted to changing circumstances and tightening budgets. But to Laura Jane Clark, this doesn't mean you have to compromise. Whether you're longing for an extension to bring in light or trying to find a better use for neglected nooks and crannies, The Handbook of Home Design offers room plans, case studies and practical tips to regenerate and revitalise the place you call home, all without breaking the bank. Sprinkled in are anecdotes from Laura's career, covering common and unusual interior design cases, including a house that needed an economical kitchen for a multi-generational family and a single-storey home that required stairless access. Laura has dedicated her career to home design, working on over 400 projects large and small in the UK, Europe and worldwide. This is the only book on interior design a novice like me can understand. I have an eye for design but hadn't a clue about interior design - due to buy a house soon and needed guidance. I was looking for something with great depth but easy explanations and this is it. I’m awful at tidying up and you can create an incredible space to be in but it has to be practical. There is so much wasted space in a house, and you need to look at how you use it without being compromised by it. It’s about altering the space for how you use it rather than the other way round,” she says. design by architect laura jane clark She is one of two architects on the programme which, for the first time ever, uses virtual reality to help people see how their house could look after a renovation rather than trying to understand a 2D drawing or a render and having to use your imagination. Donning the goggles means the clients (and we, via our televisions) can actually walk through the newly designed spaces and understand them in scale and size. It’s a fascinating show with Laura competing against another architect Robert Jamison for the best solution to a couple’s design dilemma. One of the designs is then chosen and realised.