I want my book to be finished with a hard cover to show a professional finish and ensure quality throughout it.  I believe that an standard sized landscape photo-book will be the most appropriate size as the photographs will be large enough to be seen in detail and there will be enough space to mess around with the formatting of the photographs.   For the paper I will choose the option of premium lustre paper to offer a hint of gloss as well as greater tonal range and contrast. Throughout the book I will be using a mixture of landscape and portrait orientated photographs including a mixture of family environmental portraits and documentary-style photographs of my house as well as archival photographs as this will create a sense of documentary as well as including a personal touch.  I will be using a mixture of design layouts throughout the photo-book such as full-bleeds, off-centre photographs and centered photographs to create a variety of styles and to keep the viewer interested in the narrative.  I am planning on creating a narrative that shows the development of the house from beginning to the current state whilst including personal portrait photographs throughout as well as a couple photographs which do not seem to fit the narrative – the result of this will be a couple of narratives running throughout the book creating a more interesting and experimental book.  I think that I will be using primarily images in the book with minimal text as I would prefer the photographs to show development rather than explaining through added context.  I will be using a mix of black and white and colour photographs – the documentary photographs of the development of my house will be in black and white whereas photographs depicting family memories will be in colour in order to bring some life into the photographs.  I will be taking inspiration for the layout of my book from some of the layouts in “Retracing Our Steps” by Bression and Ayesta.