If you’ve ever thought of designing your own home or making some renovations, you may wonder if you’ve got the talent, the vision and the design ability to make it work.

Jonathan Ive is one such man, only there’s no doubt about his ability to ‘design’. Jonathan Ive is the man credited with designing Apple’s iPod; and he’s about to turn his hand to renovating his home.

The home in question a Georgian manor house, and he intends to turn it into a eco mansion. He’s already splashed out £2.5 million on the house, a Grade II listed 10 bedroom manor situated on a 53-acre estate in Somerset.

The iPod designer is intending to rennovate the manner, making it eco friendly by adding features such as solar water heating, a reed-bed waster water filtration system and a biomass wood chip burning boiler.

At 41, Ive has already been labeled by Time magazine in their list of the top 100 most influential people on the planet. He currently lives in a two-bedroom house in California, not far from Apple’s headquarters.

As well as the iPod, Ive also designed the iMac and the iPhone, earning him an estimated £3 million per year.