Nate1308

Hi Hugh, the current balcony is already accessible off my main landing area which would become the entrance into the bedroom and then new balcony area. The 3rd picture is from the landing area looking out onto the existing balcony. The current balcony isnt connected to an existing bedroom, they are both on the opposite side of the house.

Brilliant, thanks for that... it's given me a few other things to consider and be able to ask when getting the quotes and valuations done. I hadn't considered there may be restrictions on what can be done to keep the street looking similar to be honest. I don't think it would look crazy different to the house next door, however our houses already look vastly different to the other properties in the same street which are red brick style and built around 20 years prior. Ours were essentially 5 add-on houses to an existing street of 50, built on what used to be an unused carpark, and when I bought the house I assumed they would try to blend them into the existing area but they went for very different styles.

Thank you Bozza! I'd estimate my house to be around 190k and the 3 bedroom house next door to be worth around 25-40k more based off what other older houses in the street have sold for recently. It's hard to judge as our 5 houses are only 8 years old and have not been resold, but are a lot newer and a different style to the older houses in the same street, and generally have larger living spaces than the older ones so id expect them to be valued the same or slightly higher. I think if we could do the conversion and make it cost neutral of the value it would add to the house then it's worth considering, as there arent a lot of great options in the area in terms of location to move to, and we would really need to make the jump to a 4 bed to make it worth moving, which would cost quite a bit more, especially if we tried to stay in a better area. The balcony idea would be my preference just becasue we have really nice views, but if it would be very expensive to retrofit then I may have to park that idea and go with the simpler windowed option!

Hi, I'm looking for a rough guide on if a conversion of my balcony is feasible and what it may cost if any of you could help me please. Never done a building project so I'm pretty clueless! I live on a street of 5 houses which alternate's a 2 bedroom house with balcony followed by a 3 bedroom house, the layouts of the houses are exactly the same except for the balcony/3rd bedroom... and im looking at creating more living space by converting the balcony area on my house into a 3rd bedroom. It's only a small area, box room bedroom kind of size but perfect for what i need. I've attached some renderings of the house from when i purchased it, and quickly mocked up two ideas using paint to give an idea of what I'd like. In the pictures my house is on the right and what I'd like to change it to is on the left. The first idea is to simply turn it into a standard room with wide horizontal windows, and the second is to have a room with sliding doors that open out onto a small walk-out balcony. Hopefully the pictures make sense! In terms of size the floor area is 2.4m x 4m, and the height is 4m to the roof apex and 2.5m from the floor to the guttering level (where I think the ceiling level would have to be. I assume it would be a matter of extending the existing balcony walls up to match the house level and then extend the roof to cover the new room, though im sure its not that simple in practice. Cheers