How much value does a sun room add to your house?

Pythagorous

We were considering selling, but given current market we are thinking of just expanding the living space in our current house with the addition of a sun room. We got quoted £15K today for a 10x10 room which includes lighting heating and basically everything.

Generally what % of this cost would you expect to add actual value to the house if we were to sell?

chickmug

Pythagorous wrote: »

We were considering selling, but given current market we are thinking of just expanding the living space in our current house with the addition of a sun room. We got quoted £15K today for a 10x10 room which includes lighting heating and basically everything.

Generally what % of this cost would you expect to add actual value to the house if we were to sell?

There are so many factors that could affect the extra value. Type of house, price, under specified or over specified for street, etc. I would call into your local friendly EA (if you have one) and ask their opinion.

But I would say 10 x 10 is very small from my perspective and if you have a good sized place it needs to be bigger.

Pythagorous

Funny I thought 10x10 was quite big! Current house is a 4 bedroom 1500 sq ft. Mmm you have me thinking now!

shirlgirl2004

I too think 10sqft is too small to be really useful. What do you anticipate it would be used as; dining room, playroom, lounge? In a 4 bed house you will often have young children and a lounge area at the back would normally need some space for toys, often to leave the main lounge as a fairly toy free zone. Unless of course there is already a seperate playroom then it might not be the same issue.

chickmug

Pythagorous wrote: »

Funny I thought 10x10 was quite big! Current house is a 4 bedroom 1500 sq ft. Mmm you have me thinking now!

I can bring to mind your house as I used to live in one 1650 sq ft and we added a sun room 14 x 10 and even then wished we had made it bigger on the 10' dimension. We (the two of us) spent more time in there than our lounge which was 22 x 14 but it felt too big and not that cosy!

If you using as a study fine but I guess it depends excatly what you are looking to use it for and what furniture you are hoping to fit in? Have you a bedroom 10 x 10 so you can stand in it and visualise the new room?

Will it be a room with one window, then the rest palastered walls or what. Or will there be a lot of glazed areas? What will the roof be?

Pythagorous

Its meant as a playroom mainly, although given it does get a lot of sun during the day I could imagine wanting to use it as a cosy lounge eventually so yeah maybe I will try and stretch it :-)

its gonna be 1 solid wall at the fence where the house joins on to the other detached house then 2 walls with glass.

On another note I'm wondering if I should inform the neighbors out of courtesy? They might not be best pleased, but then again part of the reason for building it is to gain some better privacy after they built an elevated decking area at the back of their garden which means they are looking directly into our kitchen and dining area :-( I guess they will be informed anyway by the council although if they do object I understand there wouldnt be any grounds for them to stop the build.

chickmug

Good to hear you will rethink size and hopefully you will find the cost is not directly linked to the exact size. Well usually it is not? By stretching the size you should make it into a room that will have a much broader appeal especially when you come to sell!

I always believe in letting neighbours know, out of courtesy, even when they sometimes don't always recipricate.

googler

Pythagorous wrote: »

On another note I'm wondering if I should inform the neighbors out of courtesy? They might not be best pleased

You'll have to inform them as part of the planning process - you have to do it, not the council, so it's up to you whether you drop them a courtesy note beforehand or not.

If you spend £15k on it, my instinct is that you wouldn't get this back in the sale price. £10k, maybe.

geoffky

10x 10 it very very small it is just people are getting used to living in the postage box size slave boxes..... you know the ones with 3ft between you and your next door neighbor and a garden the size of a bathroom towel......how did we get to that.....

bob79

I'm not a big fan of extensions. They tend to mess up the layout and balance of the house. During my house hunting I've also seen some terribly built extensions, I would have offered LESS for those houses than if there wasn't an extension at all....

mandragora_2

My instinct says 'No' Why not ask a local estate agent? They know the area, the price that is likely to attract buyers, and will tell you where, if you have £15k to spend, is the best place to spend it, in your house. Make sure it really does offer the promise of a return - if not, don't spend it!