Small Space/Big Bucks: Converting Home Space into Profits - Softcover

This book demonstrates how to convert unused rooms and basement space into money-making apartments, studios or home-based offices. The author's clear, step-by-step instructions, accompanied by many illustrations, should ease do-it-yourselfers through every phase of the conversion process, from design to finishing. To start, readers find out how to side-step the usual headaches of remodelling by acquiring the proper permits, drawing up workable plans, and accurately calculating material and labour hours. Then, the book details how to create separate entrances, install kitchens and bathrooms, lower ceilings, build stairways, add and remove interior walls, and apply wall and floor coverings.