With most of us spending more time in our homes, it seems like the perfect moment to plan a house extension. Extending your home will let you enjoy more family space and can add value to your property down the line. Keep reading to learn some house extension design tips to keep in mind when starting the project.

1. Integrate Your Garage

If you rarely use your garage for parking, it may be worth converting it into a habitable room. These projects are not as expensive and will add much-needed space to your room. Depending on the structural configuration of your garage, you can extend it to become part of your living room or turn it into a home theater or playroom instead.

2. Try a Small Rear House Extension

A rear extension is a perfect way to add extra living space to your home. It’s ideal for anyone looking to have an open plan living where the living room, kitchen, and dining rooms are all within one area. These types of extensions don’t require much construction and can instantly extend the living space in one room.

3. Use a Side Extension for Kitchen Space

Side returns are frequently used to extend small kitchen spaces into an open-plan kitchen and dining rooms. These additions usually provide the perfect opportunity to create a patio-facing kitchen area. They’re ideal for small kitchen areas that could benefit from the extra width.

4. Create a Garden Room

Having a garden room is an excellent solution if you need more space, but you don’t have more room near the house. A room on the patio can solve all your storage problems, become a home office space or a small playroom for the children. It can also be a home gym or a hobby room.

5. Turn Your Hallway Into a Living Space

Look at your porch and see if you can extend it into a living space. The front of your house is often an unused area that could transform into a livable space. Closing the porch can give you room to have a less formal dining area, a sunroom, or an extra space for storage.

6. Create a Sun Room Extension

A more traditional house extension is opening a sunroom on one side of the house. These rooms are large enough to fit a dining room or sitting room. In many cases, these spaces become areas of entertainment or family reunions.

7. A Cozy Bungalow

Depending on the configuration of your house, a bungalow extension can make sense. Having a vintage bungalow or a glazed walkway can be an excellent way to join two buildings together or extend an area of your house. Glazed bungalows are perfect to create the idea of an outdoor room with indoor luxuries.

8. A Loft Extension for Bedrooms

Perhaps the most popular extension is converting a loft or semi-detached area into a bedroom. Many of these spaces can be transformed to become home offices, home gyms, or guest bedrooms. Depending on the size, you can generously fit everything needed to make the most of this space.

9. An Annex Extension

A step up from the garden room mentioned earlier. An annex is not necessarily connected to the main house. Its intended use can be anything. Many homeowners choose to have a guest house or a small office with a gym or playroom in their annex extension. Depending on the size of your lot, you can have a self-serving annex with a kitchen, bathrooms, and living room space. It can even have its own entrance.

10. A Glazed Extension

For a modern house extension, a glass extension can be your solution. This type of extension looks really impressive and can work with virtually all types of buildings. Depending on the configuration of your home, you can use them to create patio-facing extensions that double as sunrooms, or you can use them to integrate the different areas of the house better.

 

Author’s Bio:

Geraldine Orentas is a writer from Happy Writers, Co. in partnership with wrought iron door manufacturer