Loft conversion & Kitchen extension Newbie!
Hello Houzz team,
This is my first post! Looking to convert a loft and have a kitchen extension done and am at the very beginning. The house is in Charlton south east London, and is split level. Other homes on the street have done a step-down sort of loft conversion (not sure of the term).
I’d love to know your ideas on rough ideas of cost for these two projects as we budget. Here’s a floor plan of what we would be starting with and what we’d hope to achieve (based on a similar house).
The kitchen rear extension would be high spec and about 3.4m by 3.1m with a large lantern roof light and full width bi-fold doors.
And the loft conversion would also be high spec with a 3.24 by 3.13 bedroom, and
5.23 by 4.75 bedroom and bathroom, with as large windows as possible! With the step down split level thing.
Does anyone have a rough idea how much this would cost?
Thank you!
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Comments (7)We completed a loft conversion and 2 storey rear extension last year. Originally we were going to do this in two phases due to budget. But soon realised it was best to be disrupted by builders once rather than twice. Just a few tips. My house is a typical 1920's semi, so the new staircase to the loft took up nearly all the box room. But we compensated for this by extending out by 4 m. All the bedroom ceilings needed to be lowered. Which was well worth doing to get a good ceiling height in the loft and get rid of all the artex bedroom ceilings. There are three RSJ's in the attic floor. As well as further ones on the ground floor. My rear foundations needed reinforcing too( they were in poor condition). We had a contingency budget of 10% but really needed 20%. We also moved into a rental house whilst the work was on. The time scale was six months but ended up being eight. We only got the keys back from the builders before Christmas. Still have to sort out the garden as we hadn't asked the builders to put in a patio to the rear of the house(due to lack of budget and foresight) . So now sit at my kitchen island looking out through my bi folds onto a muddy patchy lawn. To keep costs down all the walls and ceilings were tradesmen white. Carpet and vinyl for the floors. The bathrooms and kitchen were on sale as well as appliances. We also needed a new boiler as the old one couldn't handle the new radiators and extra bathroom ( a vented high pressure combi system was installed)....See Morehelp! double storey rear vs single storey rear+loft conversion?
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Comments (2)Fantastic job, it'a slightly too minimal for me personally but love what you've done. I particularly like the styling of the fireplace and love the kitchen....See More
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