Extensions
Here’s just a small selection of the types of extensions you could opt for, including a side return extension, wrap around extension, rear and side extension, kitchen extensions and many more.
Side Return Extension
What is a side return extension?
On Victorian or other types of historic buildings, a side return extension extends your property into the alleyway on the side of your house. Side return extensions are frequently a minor addition, but they can significantly change the way your home looks and feels. A wrap-around extension is what happens when customers combine a side return extension with a rear extension. A side return expansion is ideal for housing a larger kitchen and eating room in either case.
Side Return Extension
Side Return Extension
If you don’t have a large garden or if a back extension is not feasible, a side return extension can be a terrific solution to add some living space to your home. It can be both affordable and effective.
On most homes, the side alley is a largely unused waste of space.
Any property with a side alley can benefit from this kind of addition, including ground-floor apartments, new constructions, and investment properties.
We have employed some cutting-edge methods to build some incredible spaces over the years, including the utilization of skylights, lightwells, floor to ceiling windows, and bi-folding doors to let in natural light. For one client, we additionally built a private courtyard with access through the side return expansion.
Side Return Extension
How long does a side return extension take to build?
The building period for a side return extension may be three to four months, but we frequently complete them sooner. Construction can take longer than six months for massive side return expansions.
Due to its affordability and the modest scale of the work, side return expansions and side extensions are becoming increasingly popular among London families.
By utilizing the space in the alleyway area on the side of their property, they enable residents to maximize the size and worth of their homes.
Side Return Extension
Grow your home, keep your garden
The fact that their garden area is limited and they do not want to lose any of it is a common obstacle for many people planning to build a London home addition. However, a side return extension makes use of what is frequently unused side space by widening hallways, under-stairs space, or other supposedly “dead” portions of the house to form one open space. Although the side alley of your house might seem insignificant, it can significantly alter the size of your interior.
Get the kitchen of your dreams
Because of this, side return extensions are far more cost-effective than relocating homes in London for building modern open plan kitchen meals that are great for entertaining and adding space for a growing family. It also presents a chance to remodel your kitchen. If you want to cook while the kids play, you may choose a luxurious kitchen with a dining and living room. This will also increase the value of your house.
The length of the current room is extended on both sides, allowing skylights to flood the area with light. This implies that you’ll have a room that receives plenty of natural light, making it light and airy, especially if you pair it with sliding or bi-fold doors that open out into your patio or garden.
Save time and money – Side Return Extension Cost
While certainly allowing for variances in individual projects, a side return extension is smaller than other forms of home extensions, which means it’s also a much smaller task and has a lower side return extension cost. For London families who are pushed for time and don’t want building work to take a lengthy time, a side return addition is a fantastic solution.
A side return extension is far more affordable than other types of home additions due to its smaller scale, making it a far better financial choice than moving.
Side Return Extension Ideas
A few suggestions for side return extensions are listed below. These side return extension concepts were developed from our work-related case studies.
Side Return Extension Ideas
Side Return Extension Ideas
Side Return Extension Ideas
Side Return Extension Ideas
Wrap-around Extension
Wrap Around Extension
Wrap Around Extension
This combines a rear extension with a side return extension. The wraparound expansion can give you the most space while significantly changing the look and feel of your house. A wrap-around expansion is your best choice if you want your kitchen, dining room, and family room to be one open space. Open plan living, which was pioneered by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is steadily gaining popularity in the UK. Growing families do well in this kind of environment, especially when the kids are young.
Having a stronger link to the garden is one advantage of the wrap-around addition. The design of indoor-outdoor areas that bring the outside in has been chosen by many of our clients. A bi-folding floor-to-ceiling door, as well as skylights and lightwells that let in lots of natural light, are used to achieve this. Create a deck or patio that is on the same level as your home to create a flow between your house and garden.
If you want to make the most of the space in your London home without having to move or pay for a costly relocation, wrap-around extensions are the way to go. They build an L-shaped room that wraps around your house, adding extra space on two sides, by combining a side return extension and a rear expansion.
Wrap Around Extension
Perfect for large families
If your family is expanding and you need additional living space, a wraparound extension can provide it for you by utilizing the empty space in your property’s side alleyway and removing some room from your garden. This makes use of previously “wasted” area like hallways and under stairwells while also helping to build additional space. This can significantly improve your house by providing you with room for your growing family as well as for entertaining and socializing.
Open up your kitchen with a wrap around kitchen extension
If you envision a roomy open-concept kitchen with dining and living areas where the kids can play or do their homework while you work on dinner, a wrap-around kitchen extension is fantastic. You could be able to fit a high-end kitchen with an island or breakfast bar and built-in equipment in a wraparound kitchen addition. The kitchen would open out onto a dining area, which in turn would lead to a living area with views of your garden through your bi-fold doors.
You could even create additional rooms in your kitchen area, like a utility room, a downstairs bathroom, or walk-in storage, to really maximize your use of your home’s space because a wraparound kitchen extension creates a lot of new space.
Wrap Around Extension
Light and Bright
There are several glazing options available for your wrap-around expansion, from enormous bi-fold doors to skylights and sun tunnels. There are many methods to let natural light into your London house extension. Additionally, you can choose from a variety of modern and classic lighting designs for your extension’s lighting, including chic spotlights and ornamental light fixtures.
Wrap Around Extension Ideas
There are several glazing options available for your wrap-around expansion, from enormous bi-fold doors to skylights and sun tunnels. There are many methods to let natural light into your London house extension. Additionally, you can choose from a variety of modern and classic lighting designs for your extension’s lighting, including chic spotlights and ornamental light fixtures.
Wrap Around Extension Ideas
Wrap Around Extension Ideas
Wrap Around Extension Ideas
Wrap Around Extension Ideas
Wrap Around Extension Ideas
Rear Extensions
Rear extensions, as the name implies, are often built on detached homes or on properties without a side return option. They increase the size of your home and typically include a dining or living area as well.
Rear Extension
If you want to establish an open-concept living area and your ideal kitchen with an island, a rear extension is the ideal solution. Families enjoy open-concept living spaces, but entertaining enthusiasts also appreciate them. To allow your guests to mingle and choose which area of the room they want to spend time in when you are entertaining, open plan living spaces are typically divided into three zones: a kitchen, dining area, and seating area.
Open concept kitchens can have a certain wow factor, but with a rear addition, you can further wow your loved ones with jaw-dropping design elements like the intelligent use of light through skylights, floor to ceiling windows that frame your garden, and external cladding.
Double Storey Extensions
Due to the requirement to finish the building work on two levels and the additional space required, two story or double storey house additions in London are more expensive than other types. On the good side, though, a significant amount of space is freed up, which means you might possibly build a larger or additional living area as well as an additional bedroom.
Extensions with two stories are a terrific method to maximize space. You can create a stunning kitchen-diner, as well as an extra bedroom for you or the kids, a lavish family bathroom, or even use it as a studio or home office. A double storey addition will not only improve your property but also your home and family life, whatever you decide to do with the space.
Double Storey Extensions
Flat Roof Extensions
Extension of Flat Roof Extensions with flat roofs are an economical method to maximize your living space.
Flat Roof Extensions
Kitchen Extensions
Any of the aforementioned forms of extensions, such as a wraparound extension and side return extension, can be used to construct kitchen additions. Despite the fact that kitchen extensions are the most typical use for an addition, you can still construct an addition for any other purpose. You may create a man cave, games area, living room, and many other spaces.
Kitchen Extensions
Frequently Asked Questions
A wrap-around extension will cost approximately £65k (including VAT) upwards, to complete to a plastered finish. If you wish to have a kitchen or bathroom fitted, then this can add additional costs to your total extension cost. Your choice of glazing will also affect the overall price.
Typically, yes, a wrap-around extension will be more expensive than a rear or side return extension, due to the amount of materials required for construction. A wrap-around is a combination of a rear and side extension, connected at the corner, so will naturally cost more than either of these.
Yes, typically you will always need planning permission for a wrap-around extension, regardless of property type and size. Planning permission can take up to 8 weeks to receive from your local planning authority. There are no permitted development rights for wrap-around extensions.
A wrap-around extension extends from the rear of your house into your back garden, whilst also extending into the dead space down the side of your property. The rear and side extension sections are joined in the corner, making it a wrap-around extension.
Yes, but this will depend on the property type and location of your home. The easiest way to find out if an extension will add value is to speak to a local estate agent or look at the price of properties in your area which have extensions compared to your property.
If you own the space to the side of your property and to the rear of your property, including a garden, you can have a side and rear extension. This type of extension can utilise the dead space down the side of residential properties and use it to add width to the home.
A side return extension can cost from £45k (including VAT), but this cost will depend on the size of the extension, the types of materials used and glazing options. You can get an accurate quote from a surveyor or construction team of your choice.
A side return extension can add lots of space to your home, which is important in rooms like your kitchen if you are a growing family. A side return extension can add significant value to the cost of your home, although this is not guaranteed.
A side return extension is a great way of adding width to your home, especially in a kitchen area at the back of your property. It can add significant value to your home and give you more space inside your house. Also, it does not use any valuable garden space.
A side return extension, otherwise known as a side extension, extends the width of your home. It utilises the dead space down the side of your property and does not add any length to your home from the rear of the house.
There are three main types of extension; a side return extension, a rear extension and a wrap-around extension. A side return uses the dead space down the side of a property, whereas a rear extension extends into the rear garden space. A wrap-around extension does both.
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