Advice on how to extend this small narrow house
Hi All,
I am in the process of buying this house (Yay!) and hope to complete before the end of March.
The house is small, particularly the kitchen and the dining room is narrow. I cannot extend any further back as the patio garden is tiny and I want to keep some outside space .... but I can extend (2.69m L by 2m W) to the side of the kitchen - see floor plans below - and knock this through to the dining room.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this to maximise the light into the house as it is northern facing at the back? Get some sky lights put in?
Any ideas on how much such a small extension and knock through plus kitchen would cost? I can see lots of drain pipes also along the back of the kitchen - are these fairly easy for a builder to move?
New kitchen size will be c. 4.7m x 4.4m - I have included a proposed new floorplan I drew myself..
Any ideas and tips welcome!
Have no idea what I am doing regarding building works but want to plan and budget
Back of house
small kitchen
back of house with narrow french doors and not much light
current floor plan
New proposed floorplan
Comments (10)
PROKingfisher Designs
3 years agoThat's a tricky one, skylights might help bring in some light to the dinning room but they have their limits and it depend what you're going to do about the old French windows. If you're taking them out and opening up the wall you could have the kitchen have a large window high up across the length of the end wall. Alternatively you could accept light for the dinning room will always be an issue and attack it from the other angle. You could make a false window next to the fireplace with frosted glass and led daylighting or try a solar tunnel.
One issue you will have is the soil pipe coming down from the bathroom above, depending on where it goes underground it might be possible to relocate it or take the pipe out and drop slowly down inside the new roof until it reaches the outer wall.
PROAPT Renovation Limited
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3 years agoThank you all for your advice - such good ideas. Love the lantern idea and lots of glass.
I saw this article with a similar shaped house at the back and like what they did to it in terms of the big window and skylights ... (although mine wouldn't have a door on the left as would just be a solid wall.. not sure if they can put in doors easily?
keiblem