As a general guide,  if you can measure 2.3 metres from the floor to the roof at the highest part, you have sufficient headroom for a loft conversion. To create a comfortable living room or bedroom, at least fifty percent of the loft area should be this high. Houses built pre-war with steeply pitched roofs tend to be the easiest to convert, but there will always be structural considerations when converting this space and most lofts need...

Generating your own energy is not an unapproachable dream anymore. Today, generating alternative energy is synonymous with the increasing environmental concerns and concerns pretty much everyone who wants to cut on spending on energy bills, but also those who want to go green. The standard for the home of the future, according to the renowned engineer Hannes Guddat, is a “passive house” as it is called, whose needs for heating,...