Welcome to our New Site

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We've been working on our own home improvement project — we're delighted to reveal a brand-new look for homebuilding.co.uk, the leading website for self builders, renovators and extenders.

Homebuilding & Renovating has been helping self builders, renovators and home improvers create their dream homes for the last 30 years. The brand has evolved over the three decades and, in addition to Homebuilding & Renovating magazine and the Homebuilding & Renovating Shows, homebuilding.co.uk has played a fundamental role in helping us to help you with your projects, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Claire Lloyd

Claire is Brand Development Editor and the former Editor in Chief of Homebuilding & Renovating website and magazine. She became Editor of Homebuilding & Renovating in 2016 and has been a member of the team for 16 years. An experienced homes journalist, her work has also appeared in titles such as Real Homes and Period Living.

She has a particular interest in green homes and sustainability, and interior design is a passion too; she has undertaken qualifications in this area.

After finishing a major renovation of a period cottage, she is now onto her next project: overhauling a 1930s property in the Shropshire countryside.

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