A kitchen island could be the finishing touch your self-build needs. Not only does it offer an extra surface for food preparation, it can also provide storage if you’re a bit tight on space, somewhere stylish to eat and can be used to divide an open-plan room into distinct areas.

Here Marc Curtis, of UK-based Living Unplugged, a team passionate about helping people develop healthier relationships with digital technology and reconnecting them with the world through mindfulness, talks i-build through how he built a panel shed on a budget.

A deck is the perfect way to extend your living area to the outdoors – creating what is essentially an open-air extension.

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