Extension ideas and considerations

Zola.

Myself and the good lady bought our first house a little over a year ago. Its a 3 bed semi-detached.

We converted two smallish reception rooms into one large living room area, which has worked out great.

However, our kitchen is pretty tiny, and I would like to extend the house a bit at the back, to make that room a bit more spacious, as well as have an open plan area to the back garden.

I have attached some pictures. Whilst we are a little while away from thinking of doing this (wedding next year), I would love some opinions from you guys, before I consider speaking to an architect or anything.

What do you think is possible, given the space? I realise it may be a little trikcy with the garage being close.




reasonable space to extend out to


small kitchen


Kitchen wall to garage front


End of house (kitchen), to garage


White door is our little storage area, other side is shared by joined on neighbours. Living room is the room on left side, kitchen on right

Doozergirl

Floorplans?

Rain_Shadow

Budget? .

Zola.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Floorplans?

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Rain_Shadow wrote: »

Budget? .

Not considered yet, after possibilities

Rain_Shadow

I think Doozer wants to see what your existing building looks like in plan in case that affects how you can extend.


If you don't have a budget it's going to be hard to offer much advice. Just a ballpark figure would do. £25k?, £50k?

beaker141

Thats almost identical to what I had, maybe the kitchen outrigger looking a bit shorter on yours than mine?

I went out to the side, only by 1.6m so I kept an alleyway of 800mm, I later demolished the garage as well and put a summerhouse at the bottom of the garden, with part of it being a shed to replace the garage storage lost. The kitchen is now a great size at about 6m long by 3.6m wide. In the 1.6m wide extension for the length of the rest of the house I squeezed in a small utility room and then at the front a "study" with a tiny desk but importantly an ikea pax wardrobe to store the shoes from the family.

Zola.

Part of the thought the garage would have to go, which would be a shame, but maybe the only way. Did yours cost a fortune Beaker?

I was thinkng £25k tops

beaker141

Zola. wrote: »

Part of the thought the garage would have to go, which would be a shame, but maybe the only way. Did yours cost a fortune Beaker?

I was thinkng £25k tops

It was a wraparound, so extended where your backroom is, and went up 2 story to create another double bedroom, move the bathroom to create a corridor and extend the box room to a "tetris" type z shape to give it more room.

Cost was about 50-60k

I've taken the garage away in both houses I've owned now, unless you'll ever put a gar in it, its not a garage, its a shed with a massive door - so for me it needed to be at the bottom out of the way so I can have a nice patio out of the back. That would be my other suggestion, where your kitchen window is now, make that french doors, or bi fold doors and have your kitchen exit straight into the garden.

saverbuyer

Zola. wrote: »

Part of the thought the garage would have to go, which would be a shame, but maybe the only way. Did yours cost a fortune Beaker?

I was thinkng £25k tops

You wouldn't need to take away the whole thing. Just part of it.


If you're wanting to go out the side too, then obviously it'll have to go. You maybe could get it done for 25k but I doubt that would include a new kitchen.