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Hi Peter, thanks for your input. In response to your points. 1. I'll give the bifolds some thought as you're right, they won't really be opened very often at all. We mainly just want lots of natural light entering the property. When I'm talking about alternative routes to the rear, I mean when walking between rooms. My wife could have her friends over to hang out in the open plan living space and I could be sat in the living room watching a movie. As much as I like her friends, I would prefer not to be disturbed by people walking through the living room to get to the toilet and back. 2. We asked for the ceilings to be as high as possible as we like high ceilings and want the extension to feel spacious. I think he has found a tile that works at that pitch as I remember him briefly mentioning it on a call. I will ask him as you suggest. 3. We were thinking that the office wall facing into the extension could be steel frame glazed (crittall style glass wall) which would let light in. 4. The original plan was to have a couple velux in the roof so I'm not sure why they're not there. Potentially it has to do with the pitch of the roof? I'll find out.

Hi everyone! We'd like to build a single storey extension on the rear of our 1970s detached 3 bed house and would be grateful for any input on our ground floor floorplan. The reason we're looking at extending is to create an open plan living space , downstairs office and toilet. My wife and I currently use two of the three bedrooms as offices so we'd like to atleast turn one of them into an actual bedroom for guests/a little one in the future. The architect we instructed to do the plans didn't really ask us many questions about how we'd use the space and the floorplan that he came up with means we would have to walk through the living room to gain access to the back of the property, which we don't really like. After messing around in paint for a couple of hours, I've come up with the attached floorplan that doesn't involve walking through the living room to get to the rear of the property and still has an office and downstairs toilet. What are people's thoughts on the architect's propsed floorplan and my sketch? Thanks Michael My floorplan sketch Floorplan from estate agent when we purchased the property House's current floorplan Architect's proposed floorplan