Midnight_wolfboy

We bought a [relatively] inexpensive house with the plan of either: 1) Demolishing the existing property and building a new house 2) Keeping some of the house and doing a two storey extension Ofcourse since moving in costs have gone up 4000% post pandemic. We've asked an architect to help us design the house plan - given the large scale of the project. We had an initial conversation stating we wanted a: 1) kitchen diner, 2) utility and 3) four bedrooms upstairs They are pushing for demolishing half the house and doing a two storey extension - they've recently emailed a design although with no commentary I don't think it's particularly cost efficient or imaginative Am I being unfair on them? Does anyone have any better recomendations - I'm thinking of doing an extension around the existing structure and avoiding much demolition? Our budget is circa £150k