Sustaining our environment

Your Home Renovator's Guide

A guide to help you get the most out of the renovation process as well as your budget, and develop renovation plans that meet all your needs. It guides you through a 3 step process: thinking through your needs, designing your home and making it happen.

Topics also covered in the guide include:

  • getting started
  • assessing your home
  • finding information
  • working with designers and builders
  • working room-by-room
  • designing garden and outdoor spaces
  • choosing products (including appliances and lighting, heating, cooling and photovoltaics, rainwater and wastewater, plumbing)
  • enjoying your new home.

Download the full guide

Your Home Renovator's guide
2008_YourHomeRenovatorsGuide.pdf (June 2008, PDF 2.38mb)

Download additional files

The guide also features useful templates to assist you to work with and brief the people renovating your home:

Visit the Your Home Renovator's Guide website.

Page last updated: 21 September 2012