Creative Ideas for House Extensions to Add Value to Your Home

Providing a few changes in your home’s appearance can enhance your quality of life. But if you’re intending to sell your property, you want to find ways to add value to it. House extension is a great way to make your home look better and more attractive to potential buyers. It can be a costly investment, that’s why before your family settles on doing it, you should first conduct research. You need to check your property’s market price and then figure out how much value structural changes can add, if any. If there is not a big difference between the two prices, it’s really not worth beginning a project at all. Only after having done this you can start thinking about what extensions you can provide where.

To help you figure out what structural changes you can make to your property, we’ve shown a few options below. Make sure you take a look at them.

Side Return Extensions

Side return extensions can be applied to a room and they best work with kitchens. Such extensions not only make your property look spacious, they really provide some extra space.

Extensions are usually provided on the side of passages or patios where there is lots of wasted space. They can also be done between terraced houses. You may think it’s not really worth using this method, but you’ll be surprised to see how much it changes your house’s appearance. Even though a small extension, it will open up the space. It’s about some extra feet width but it can make all the difference.

Consult an architect or another specialist who’ll know better whether side return extensions are suitable for your property. The idea of this method is to make your home look bigger, not to look like a box. It can also add some value to it.

The Cube” Extensions

This is quite a creative and functional contemporary design extension. It has the following advantages: it is cost-effective, sustainable and very good-looking. Cube extensions can be used to create extra living space and can also be used as stand alone areas for an office, bedroom, private space or a studio.

Conservatory Extensions

Conservatory extensions provide room where necessary. They are nice additions to properties and can be used in many ways. This investment is worthwhile if you want to add some value to your home. Potential buyers are likely to appreciate it.

Transform Outdoor Space

Another wise move is to make use of wasted outdoor space by building another room. It can be used as a studio, office or even a small greenhouse. It can also be a storage room. If you have outdoor space that serves no purpose, why not take advantage of it? It can add more space to your property and even more value to it.

Additional work

Note that all this work should be done by specialists. If you know nothing about construction or architecture, let experts take care of it.

What to do in the first place:

  1. Ask a specialist to provide a plan or sketch it out yourself, then have a discussion with an architect

  2. Obtain planning permission: you are not allowed to make structural changes to your property without a planning permission

  3. Agree contract with a building company

  4. Discuss prices: ideally, you don’t want it to cost more than it would to buy a new home. Since you’re willing to add value to your home so you can obtain a higher price, you shouldn’t go too far with your improvement costs.

Don’t forget that if you want to attract buyers you need to clean your property in the first place. Without having a clean home, you can’t do much about enhancing its appearance and your chances to sell it. Hygiene is always put first. So be sure to hire a cleaning agency to get the job done.

Contributed by N1 TenancyCleaners

Alex Evans

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