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My youngest would totally go for this as a solution!

I haven’t yet - my husband works for a housing company, he’s a bit like Chandler to me. Used to be an engineer but now project manages large housing developments, so he has architect friends. Thinking of hosting a BBQ with the entertainment being a ‘who can make the best suggestions’ game - not sure how much fun they’d find that though ? In all seriousness I was trying to get my head around what I’d like first, what’s most plausible, but it seems part of an architects job is to talk that through with me.

Bedroom 2 is quite large already (I don’t have measurements but I’d guess 4mx3.5m ish) my drawing makes it look small in comparison to the other side of the house. I had thought about extending the garage up originally (I assume it would have to be knocked down and re-built to make sure the foundations are ok). Making that area upstairs an en-suite and walk in dressing area off bedroom 2. That would also be extending the gable end of the roof which is easier by the sounds of things. Having a roof light downstairs is appealing too and we could come out further than the existing garage.

I have thought about this - we could come out and make the 2nd living room a bedroom with en-suite, and re-arrange upstairs to add an en-suite but we’d be losing a bedroom upstairs so I wasn’t keen. Really I’d be happy with a single story upstairs ? but that’s a bit gravity defying. I also considered going into the loft as we have a large hall. But our eaves are too low.

Hey - thank you. I understand that, but the space between the extension and garage would feel a bit wasted - maybe we could make it into a feature patio or something. Though the way the hall is set out we’d struggle with the upstairs layout I think if we extended that way. We have 4 nice sized bedrooms upstairs but only one small bathroom. Three teen girls! For the size of the house we just don’t have enough showers. So would like 2 en-suites and I’d love a walk in dressing area. Downstairs we’d like a large family kitchen/seat area. I’ve added some hand drawn sketches - I have done a sketch up but can’t access the account at the moment. The extension idea is 5.4m wide x 6m long. Bedroom 3 - 4x3.2m Bedroom 4 - 3.5x3.2m Bathroom - 2.5x2m (best guess based on standard bath length and width) LR - living room D - dining room S - snug (second living room) K - kitchen in the middle is the hall - stairs to the right and downstairs loo. we have access to the waste both at the rear and by the front door centrally - it runs under the house. The idea is to make the extension into the master bedroom with en-suite and walk in dressing room - husband would like a balcony, neighbours have one and we don’t over look anyone so I think that’s possible planning- wise.

Like this? It’s not very clear - I’ve also added another wonderful sketch from me - rear is the bottom of the pic.

Thank you this is really helpful and really why I feel it’s better to build a rectangle out like the red bit. I think even if we just come out though the roof might need a lot of work - I’ve added a wonderful sketch of the way the roof is and a pic I found on my phone.

Thanks for this! I hadn’t considered the light coming into the current kitchen window being over shadowed. Which is why an architect is needed ?! Our garden is north/north east facing and really big - around 55 meters long. We have a garage to the left of where the red extension would be already but that’s obviously single story. rear is the bottom of the pic I’ve attached - realised I’ve switched the perspective

Thanks - that is generally my thinking. Additionally I think we’d need a new roof but I think we may need adjustments to the roof anyway because of the way it is at the moment. I’ve added two more amazing sketches for you to appreciate ? back view and aerial ? If we had a column in place of the corner maybe that would reduce the cost?

My husband says you’re right - I probably shouldn’t even be allowed to be asking this question without his permission ?

Morning all, posted my amazingly home drawn sketch up drawings a while back of my double storey extension design (rectangle). The husband wants to ‘wrap it around’ I think from my research so far this will be very costly. I was wondering if anyone had experience of doing this? It would be a rear extension (not side and back) but our home is T shaped - pic added. Red area is what I think we should do, green is what the husband would like - he’s got his eye on bifolds the whole way along the back. So we’d be taking off a corner of the house - I realise I’ll need experts but just was after any opinions to help make our initial decision. Would a rectangle be a Lot cheaper than wrap around? Any other comments more than welcome.

Hey ? I’m just in the process of finding an architect now to discuss the space. Yes we need 4 bedrooms.

Afternoon, I posted late last year to start but can’t seem to find my original post. I’ve used sketch up to show the house as it is now and overlaid the extension plan. Main issue is that there is one small family bathroom which is really out of sync with the size of the house. Red dots indicate the manholes they link under the house - so we’ll have to move the one in the back garden out further. We toyed with the idea of a wrap around extension so coming out and across the front of the existing kitchen - but that would involve taking down a corner of the house which I imagine will add a lot of cost and expertise needed for the build. I was wondering if anyone had any layout ideas that might differ to mine? Particularly where I’ve suggested bedroom 3&4 are merged and a small en-suite added to bedroom 1 - there’s no outside wall access to drainage. There is a chimney breast between bedrooms 3&4 which will have to be removed.

Thanks for the tips - lots of the houses have been extended or had loft conversions so a great shout. It has a lot of land that we wanted - big garden and not overlooked at all etc and needed a lot of work inside so we wouldn’t get better by spending the money on another house.

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I will try and get my sketch up designs loaded on here in the week - it’s a lot easier to see what I’m going on about with them! I’ll also upload some photos. We’re hoping to get an architect in the new year - my husband is a project manager at a large housing development company so we might use someone from there. Just started looking at some local people as well, from the stories on here and other places it seems most important to get the drawings right and then the specification so you know what the builders have priced to include etc. We’ll be using someone to build to water proof (I think that’s the right term). Then do the insides with other contractors/DIY. We’ve budgeted £150,000 - though I really am not sure how much it will cost. Other than using a calculator I found on one site. So am prepared to have to amend the plan/compromise etc. Because we’re coming out passed the back of the house I think the roof may be problematic.

thank you - that’s a perfect solution. I wasn’t sure if there was any reason why you couldn’t leave it there.

Afternoon everyone I’m enjoying reading everyone’s posts on here. We’re just starting to plan our extension haven’t received advice from anyone at all yet but wanted to do an intro and ask a general question. I’ve added my drawings which are not to scale - I’ve also drawn what I want things to look like on sketch up but couldn’t work out how to add them here. Green lines are internal doors, blue external doors and pink lines are windows. The red area is the planned extension which actually comes out further than the kitchen line which I’ve not depicted in the pics! The pic with letters is the downstairs and numbers upstairs with the bathroom marked in black - and my idea in blue to extend it. I don’t think this will be possible though because to save costs I’m thinking it’s best we keep the external wall that’s already there. Which leads to my first question. Can an external wall be stripped of the external bricks and made into an internal wall? My second complete beginner question I think I know the answer to also - the downstairs already has a conservatory over half the area for the extension that leads to the garage. So the garage wall is where the extension wall would need to be up against - I’m assuming that means we’ll have to knock down the garage wall. Hopefully not the whole garage though and then the extension wall could replace the garage wall. We have a waste manhole in the area too so will need to move it further into the garden and the toilet is on the window wall of the bathroom so would have to be moved to the outside wall. We’ve had the water pipe plans and spoken to the correct utility company so know this is possible. And the downstairs loo will have to be moved into the extension to stay accessible to the waste. extension will be 5.5x5.5m with the aim of giving us another bedroom and en-suite. I wanted a bigger main bathroom but unless I take some of bedroom 3 I don’t think that will be possible. Thanks for reading all of this :-) I’m in the excited research stage - I’m sure that will morph into stress once we start! I also have some roof questions but still looking myself at how we might do this first - the current roof is in a T shape