subject: help for building [print this page] How a place extension Can Change your lifestyle
The kitchen is now the center of the modern family home. It's no longer merely a place for cooking but also a social, family and entertaining space.
Adding a kitchen extension can dramatically change the way that the ground floor of your place functions as probably there may be 2 social spaces, Lounge and Kitchen.
Our approaches to life have changed during the past 30 years. Nowadays once the sun comes out we all rush to buy food for the bar-b-q, having a kitchen extension that leads without delay onto the garden and patio / decking area could be a great feature and a selling point for your property.
A ground floor kitchen extension can create the wow factor to many properties and if designed correctly will be a great selling point in future years.
Rear or side house extension?
If you have enough space, a rear or side kitchen extension has gigantic potential to switch the very nature of your house. This kind of extension can be combined with internal adjustments to open your kitchen up to your back garden and create a light, airy, open-plan area that can be used as a mixed kitchen, dining, living and entertaining area. Turning your kitchen and back area into more of a focus can have enormous benefits.
Side return house extension
Side return extensions are frequently utilized to make additional space in existing rooms or to re-arrange your house to make additional bedrooms, lavatories or living areas.
Side return extensions may also be mixed with rear extensions to form a wrap-around extension. Although wrap-around extensions are usually quite time-consuming and result in a major amount of distraction, they offer you the maximum amount of flexibility to re-order the layout of your home to precisely suit your needs.
Use our extension tick list to determine what kind of extension you can build.
Find out what's possible with your home :
do you have land next to the house where you can build?
Will there still be more than half the garden left?
Could you build without taking light from a neighbour's windows?
Will this be the 1st extension to the house?
Are there no limitations on building specific to your area?
If the solution to all of those questions is yes, then you're on the way to starting your extension. Planning laws in Britain and Wales modified in October 2008 to outline a group of rules for 'permitted development ', which means you can build without signing up for planning authorization. These rules are detailed on the government's net planning portal.
If the answer is no to a few of them then the extension isn't dead in the water but you will probably need to draw up some plans and have an initial debate with the planning department. You may still be in a position to extend but will need to get architect services on the job to help come up with designs that may get planning authorization.
What sort of house extension do you really need?
This is not a yes / no section but more an inventory of questions to help you decide the layout and format of your extension.
Do you need more bedrooms?
If yes, would extra bogs help too?
do you have areas of the house that are finished but rarely used?
If yes, might you just need to reconfigure rooms rather than extend
Do some family members yearn for more privacy?
do you want to entertain and have guests more often?
Do folk home work?
Are there past-times that need more room?
Do folks spend some more time downstairs than up?
How precious is the garden to you?
As you drill down into these questions you may think about more to ask yourself, so carry on. The most important thing to remember is that you must try and question yourself about what you want without worrying, at about that point, about the way in which the house extension can be done. After you've a listing of wishes an architect or designer will help you come up with an house extension design that works
