Synopsis: Includes the various design tools you need to design your home - from colour schemes and furniture to storage solutions, aspect and furniture. Including case studies from a range of real-life projects, this book reveals success stories, along with examples of bad design and development failures and everything you should and shouldn't do.

"Property Ladder: Designed for Profit" coincides with a brand new series of "Property Ladder" on Channel 4. Amid a highly competitive market, home-owners and property developers are looking for new ways to make the most of their investment. Whether the need is to release your property's potential in a cooling market, or you are renovating in order to let out or sell-on your home; if you have a growing family and changing needs from your home, this book is a must-have. Perfect for anyone with an eye for design who is simply sprucing up or designing from scratch, this takes you through the essential design dos and don'ts. Sarah has a wealth of tricks up her sleeve, from maximising awkward spaces to identifying key themes to apply to decor. In "Property Ladder: Designed for Profit", she pulls out all the stops in D.I.Y. and design, to prove a little bit of creativity goes a long way. "Property Ladder" includes all the design tools you need to design your home - from colour schemes and furniture to storage solutions, aspect and furniture. Packed full of case studies from a wide range of real-life projects, it reveals success stories along with examples of bad design and development failures and everything you should and shouldn't do.

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Hot Brands Verdict
Sarah Beeny has a down-to-earth approach to property development, and in the current climate this book is about how you can maximise the potential of your home, not because you are going to necessarily sell it, but because there is the opportunity to get bargains at home retailers, and builders may be more available. Packed full with photographs she illustrates from the front of the house to the back ways to improve, covering Front of House, Eating, Bathing, Windows, Adding Space, Flooring, Colour& Paint, Vistas, Lighting and a Period Overview looking at houses from Tudor to 1970s onwards.

Also throughout the book she gives examples of what she believes are just ‘Designer Nonsense’ ‘It is a fallacy that every kitchen is worth extending. If it eats up your garden, disrupts the balance of your house, or looks like a badly-constructed carbuncle, you may knock thousands off the value of your home and make it harder to sell in the current market’ and ‘Designer Reminders’ full of sensible advice ‘ If you are take out a chimney breast, don’t forget to support or remove the chimney from the roof. Otherwise it’s like taking the legs off a table. The chimney will almost certainly fall through the roof’

If you missed the television series here is a great opportunity to re-evaluate your home.