The Handbook of Home Design: An Architect’s Blueprint for Shaping your Home

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Learning her craft at the likes of Mackintosh School of Architecture, Laura has developed an immaculate eye for detail. We’ve created several different accessible bathroom in various styles, from industrial to more traditional, and the idea is to move away from clinical and cold to stylish and welcoming. THE HANDBOOK OF HOME DESIGN distils Laura’s wealth of experience and enthusiasm giving you an accessible yet detailed guide to design, empowering you with the tools and knowledge to shape your home how you want.

Wall panels are great for bathrooms; they’re water-resistant and offer a range of looks, including concrete. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches).

With over 15 years experience as a prominent architect, renovating and revamping properties on a budget, we caught up with Laura Jane Clark for some advice and inspiration on bathrooms. Rather than have it under the stairs, which is the usual place people put it, I would highly recommend placing it somewhere that is potentially accessible from the outside, and maybe even attached to some kind of utility space. Having founded her own studio, Lamp Architects, Laura found fame when her renovation of an underground toilet in Crystal Palace featured on Amazing Spaces with George Clarke in 2012. Laura’s projects encompass creating real houses for real people- creating homes that people can truly live in rather than the colossal glass skyscrapers that architects often design.

I’m afraid I can’t give too much away before it launches, but it’s been fabulous working on a diverse range of projects, rather than just your standard extensions or remodelling. Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous.Biography: Laura Jane Clark is an architect and designer specialising in innovative home design, renovation and new-build houses. Without getting ridiculous with the design, I always want to push things just that little bit further. She is the architect presenter on BBC2’s “Your Home Made Perfect” and has appeared regularly on Channel Four’s “George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces”. Whether that’s a face-height mirror cabinet or some kind of vanity unit, I’d get that in right from the start.

Ahead of its launch, we caught up with one its stars, TV architect Laura Jane Clark to find out what we might expect and, of course, chat all things bathrooms. Cutting her teeth as a labourer on construction sites when she was an architect student, Laura's passion and understanding for building and making shines through in her work.

A secondary entrance and an easily accessible downstairs toilet is always something I’ll try and squeeze into the plan. Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back. Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix series 'Your Home Made Perfect' has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous. We do not accept requests for autographs, signed merchandise, fan mail, birthday messages or any other non-commercial contact with the speakers or acts.