HRV Features on
The Drawing Board
A wealth of information all in one
place
This website is the first port of call
for those who want to renovate but don't quite know where to start.
It offers advice and resources to help homeowners through the
often-taxing renovation process and they can keep coming back to it
time and time again as they progress through their
project.
The Drawing
Board caters for all experience levels, from
young couples doing up their first home to seasoned renovators
doing their tenth. Visitors can get product information, design
tips - as well as sharing their own tips and reading about other
people's experiences.
Where renovators used to spend hours
trawling the net, looking for info from many different sources, now
it's all on one website: www.thedrawingboard.co.nz - the one-stop shop
for renovating.
The website comes at a perfect time for
homeowners - there is renewed confidence in the building industry
but most are still proceeding cautiously. The Drawing
Board gives them a free resource to help them get underway
and covers everything from dealing with architects to getting
building consents and code of compliance.
Users will be able to sign up to an
e-newsletter keeping them abreast of new content and products. They
will also be able to fire questions at the experts and submit their
own renovation projects to be featured on The Drawing
Board.
The first video following the featured
couple, Matthew and Rowena, who are renovating their bathroom first
up. The Drawing Board will follow them while they
overcome obstacles and deal with the unexpected - with lots of tips
for renovators along the way. Following shortly afterwards, there
will be a kitchen renovation and a room extension for renovators to
sink their teeth into.
This is a James Hardie initiative but
they're not going it alone and have enlisted the help of several
other industry players. These include Dulux, NRG, HRV, Home Plus,
Smith and Sons and many more.