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Home extensions are extensive things that needed expert planning as the project's entirety calls for extended length of time. Ask yourself these questions: Are you happy living with the neighborhood? Do you get along fine with other homeowners near you? Are the kids attending the local school and how easy is it for them to get to school? What about your work? Is it a short or long drive away? You answers will dictate the need to consider any home extension plans.
Several things are needed for careful deliberation prior to the addition of the extension to your home. Start with the design stage, selection of the builder for the task, planning and building approval, choices of material (and costs). Also, weigh the worth of the extension plans; maybe instead of installing house extensions, a transfer to a new place with large spaces would be a better option.
Building a home extension is cheaper than moving to another property. The major expense in relocating is the fee of the estate agents ($10,000 in most cases). While many people are forced to reportage their homes during relocation and moving up the property ladder (which means higher monthly fees), other costs are for removal and buying new furniture and redecorating the new house property.
Home extensions mean you will need the services of a home extension architect. Emerging as one of the specialist in architecture, home extension architects are perfect for your home extension plans. This type of architects has strong backgrounds in general architecture before specialization. And through further training and extensive project involvement in respective areas, they hone the eyes and the skills to cater the home owner's desire.
Partnership process with the home extension architect:
* You visit the architect's office
* Discuss what you want (and don'ts)
* The home extension architect(s) will visit the site
* The architect makes a professional assessment of the project
* They work out the specifics of the project in their studio with the end result of the drawings developed
* The architects hand the drawing to the builders involved in the project
* The role of the home extension architect is now reduced to supervisory (ensuring the blueprints developed for the project are followed).
Most people going on home extension projects will be surprised when asked for the need to involve an architect; it 'news' to them. Ironically, home extensions call for more skill than what was involved in the first building of the property, and that's the need for a specialized architect.
Apart from the aesthetics of the task, what is worth mentioning of the home extension architect's inclusion in the project is the safety of the extension. As a matter of fact, in many legal jurisdictions, the involvement of these architects is a mandatory requirement. Owing to the many cases of what were initially very sound structures that ends up in compromised situation during the addition of extensions, and so they become unsafe.
Likewise to the architect's involvement in the initial design of the structure, the roles of the home extension architect is two-fold. For one thing, the professional who ensures the structures that make the extension possible are safe and that they won't come tumbling the very next day and cause havoc to the inhabitants. For another, this is also the professional that will ensure the structure's aesthetic appeal; there are several cases of beautiful buildings being messed up during extension projects, and so the home extension architect will prevent this from happening.
Home extensions are no doubt one of the nightmares for many homeowners. But with the right attitude and the right personnel, there's no such thing as impossible in fulfilling your space needs and fantasies.
