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The bedroom dome is capped with a beautiful grass roof and the bathroom, like an atrium. When you picture an eco home, its only natural to imagine something along the lines of a timberclad dwelling with a green roof but a house s green credentials arent always obvious at a glance. Building your own home has now been fully updated and expanded by david snell, acknowledged expert and guru in the field of selfbuild, and it remains the best book on the subject. I knocked down an existing house and started from scratch. If youre looking to build your own property from scratch, or work on your existing home, this is the one and the only book that you really need. In 1989 he founded the design museum, the first of its kind in the world, and he is the provost of the royal college of art.
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