Your home holds more potential than you think

From cutting bills to cutting carbon, every home has room to improve. With the right plan, you can see how a house like yours could be made warmer, cosier, and better for the planet. Step by step, at a pace and budget that works for you.

The real challenge isn’t knowing that homes can improve – it’s knowing where to start without wasting money or making changes that don’t work together.

That’s where A House Like Mine comes in. It’s a collaborative project designed to help you picture the potential of your own home, through real examples of what could be achieved with careful planning.

Each story is based on a Whole House Plan: an expert assessment that looks at the home as a whole, showing which improvements make the biggest difference, what they might cost, and how to phase them sensibly.

From Victorian terraces to 1970s semis and more modern homes, these stories show that ordinary Oxfordshire houses – homes like yours – have extraordinary potential.

“The Whole House Plan really clarified the various measures and their costs for us, something we only had a vague idea about before. It laid out some interesting options, which have been incredibly helpful in planning our next steps.”
Felicity and Jan, St Clements, Oxford