Yoggo
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Back in February, my wife and I kicked off the idea of extending our house. Main reason: my year-old son who requires more room than anyone else for his toys/books, etc!
Our house is a narrow 3-bed townhouse in SW London (between Wimbledon & Kingston), lots of bedroom space (over 2 floors), but a small open-plan downstairs kitchen/diner and lounge. We bought the house from new and have been in there 5 years, and like all new builds, the builders were obsessed with bathrooms so we have a downstairs loo, middle floor bathroom for our son and upstairs en-suite which is massive with a seperate shower and bath.
We considered moving but with the costs including stamp duty, plus the economic situation, decided to go for a single story extension to the back of the property, creating a new TV room and making the kitchen area larger and then making the exisiting lounge into a dining area and play area for our son. We opted to keep the extension to 3m to a) comply with the permitted development legislation, and b) not lose to much of our 12m garden.
First thing was we got a local company to design the extension and they gave us two options a pitched roof or a leaning roof. We chose the pitched roof option as we felt it would look better. We applied for and received a letter of Permitted Development in March/April and then started looking for builders.
After finding a local builder (we visited some of his work and talked to his existing customers getting really good feedback), back in June the building work began...
Our house is a narrow 3-bed townhouse in SW London (between Wimbledon & Kingston), lots of bedroom space (over 2 floors), but a small open-plan downstairs kitchen/diner and lounge. We bought the house from new and have been in there 5 years, and like all new builds, the builders were obsessed with bathrooms so we have a downstairs loo, middle floor bathroom for our son and upstairs en-suite which is massive with a seperate shower and bath.
We considered moving but with the costs including stamp duty, plus the economic situation, decided to go for a single story extension to the back of the property, creating a new TV room and making the kitchen area larger and then making the exisiting lounge into a dining area and play area for our son. We opted to keep the extension to 3m to a) comply with the permitted development legislation, and b) not lose to much of our 12m garden.
First thing was we got a local company to design the extension and they gave us two options a pitched roof or a leaning roof. We chose the pitched roof option as we felt it would look better. We applied for and received a letter of Permitted Development in March/April and then started looking for builders.
After finding a local builder (we visited some of his work and talked to his existing customers getting really good feedback), back in June the building work began...
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