50+1 Tips When Remodeling Your Home (50 Plus One)

Bill Resch is the experience behind this book of remodeling tips. His twenty-five years of remodeling experience will help any owner looking to do some home remodeling reach their goal. This book gives excellent tips on how to gage if a project is a good investment for the type of home and location. It also gives tips on hiring a contractor, writing a contract, creating a budget, finding time for the project even with kids, pets, and a career, and figuring out if part of the project can be done by the owner or not. This book will be sure to educate even the most home remodeling illiterate enough to get a home remodeling project underway. At Amazon.com this book is available for $14.95, a very affordable price.

Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies

This book, part of the Dummies series, is the perfect book for someone looking to make their home remodel a little be greener. Home remodels can become very wasteful when all of the old parts of the house are switched out for new. This book will show the best ways to use existing materials and the best way to find new green materials to make the home remodel as environmentally friendly as possible. Tips on the lifecycle of materials, working within a budget, using green building methods, reducing energy costs, building quickly, and refinishing old materials and fixtures are all included in this book. It is only $14.95 at Amazon.com, so if going green is part of the plan for the next home remodel, this is the book that will help.

Tips & Traps for Remodeling Your Attic, Basement, and Garage

Included in this book are thirty years of experience in adding square footage to a home without an addition. This book teaches owners how to remodel attics, basements, and garages, to add space to a home without actually adding on. The book is written in an easy-to-understand language, and it includes many illustrations to make understanding remodeling concepts even easier. Tips on deciding which space in the home is the best to remodel based on the owner's needs, working with contractors and subcontractors, working with stairways, plumbing, electrical work, and selecting the right fixtures. By adding livable square footage to a house will increase its overall value and make it a roomier place to live. This book is just $13.56 at Amazon.com.

No matter what type of remodel an owner is looking to accomplish, these books include tips that will help with the project.