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Wilson, Charlie 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8164-3566, Crane, Lucy and Chrysochoidis, Georgios
(2013)
Why homeowners decide to renovate: the influence of six conditions of domestic life.
In:
ECEEE Proceedings 2013.
ECEEE.
Abstract
This paper argues for renovation decisions to be framed as a decision process that originates in everyday life at home. Based on interviews with homeowners prior to and following major home renovations, renovation decisions are conceptualised as emerging from six background conditions of domestic life. The conditions range from balancing competing commitments to the physicality of living. The paper then sets out how each condition can be empirically substantiated in large samples using standardised measurement items. A nationally representative UK homeowner survey (n=1028) is used to test this “scaling up and out” approach for explaining why some homeowners decide to renovate whereas others do not. Self-selection and sampling biases are addressed by comparing homeowners not considering renovations with homeowners deciding about renovations. Homeowners in the renovation decision process are more likely to (i) find differences between their and others’ homes unsettling, (ii) face competing commitments with the use of space at home, (iii) find ideas and inspiration for the home from external sources. These differences are broadly consistent between energy efficiency and other types of renovator. Energy efficient renovations are an adaptive response to imbalances and tensions with the use of space at home.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2014 13:32 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2022 17:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47108 |
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