Extending out or up
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Comments (3)A local estate agent told us that converting a loft is the fastest/most cost effective way to add sq footage and there fore provides the best return on you investment. Best of luck with your projects. Portcullis....See MoreTo Extend, or not to Extend?
Comments (5)You have lots of space. I'd put the utility room in like in the third picture. And then the kitchen in like the second picture (so it backs onto utility). Then you can figure out where you'd put the dining table and seating area with the space that is left. Having lots of circulation space is going to give it a luxurious feel - nothing worse than everything crammed in together and no room to breathe. But if you can get everything in from just that small corner extension, then it would certainly be a lot cheaper and easier! If you need 1m to make it work, I think I'd just do the full 2m that you've for permission for - then it'll be really more than you need but you will appreciate it....See MoreTo extend or not to extend…? Advice and inspiration please.
Comments (14)Thank you for your comments. @Jonathan your plans are quite close in layout to our grand design which involved a 5m extension across the back of the house with a pitched roof on either side of a middle entrance to the utility / dog room. QS was saying £300k plus optionals (like the kitchen apparently!). Do you think we could achieve something like your plan for £100k? @Emily Lukes that is a really interesting idea and has encouraged us to think more openly about the whole space. I should have said that the store/office are in the garage. My husband works from home all the time and I do sometimes (even without Covid-19) so we have to have some study space. Lots of food for thought. Thank you....See MorePlease help - to extend or not to extend?
Comments (17)Dear Volhal, You certainly need optimism, but tempered with experience. The job being finished off at the moment is in a terraced street ,sloping in all directions front to back and side to side. The kitchen / dining extension is at the back so all the excavated material has had to come through the house ,and the front is several steps up, so we parked the skip and ran a conveyor through the house to the skip. At the worst moment the family rented a place for a week and then back. For most people the ideal would be to go and leave the site till the end but not many can afford months of renting on top of the building costs . The family range from 4, 7 to 9 and when Mum said yipee we will be free of the builders there was a chorus of 'why mum we like the builders' ( with lockdown probably the only people the children have seen recently !) Your architect can check out the ground floor construction and that will help decide how and where to run drains and pipes and cables and how best to provide what you want. Yes you can have all manner of problems , as outlined above, Understand them, be aware of them, they can be solved, at a cost Chose your team wisely and not just on price....See More
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Apologies for the delay, heres a layout of our ground floor and first floor, we are intending to reconfigure the downstairs so it works better for us but before we do that we thought that (depending on the cost of it) it might be worth doing the 1st floor first otherwise in a few years time the rooms will be ruined again. Any advice most welcomed!
Edward Tucker : Chartered Architect