New Year, New Room – Add space to your home!
With the arrival of a new year, many people look to making a few improvements in their life. Be it a better body, improved diet, a new car, or some much needed home renovations, the start of the year is the perfect time to change your life for the better. Choosing to extend or convert your existing home is a great alternative to the expense and stress of moving house, and here at AKB Lofts, our specialists are just the people to help you plan out your extension.
We’ve looked at why you will be better off adding space to your existing home, and what kinds of extension or conversion you could have below.
The benefits
The decision to move house or to stay and add more space to your current home can be a difficult one to make. However, converting is often the cheaper option, with the added bonus of causing minimal disruption to you and your families lives. Moving house can be an extremely stressful time, and can inconvenience you by moving away from local amenities. Converting your current home removes a large portion of that stress, and allows you and your family to remain comfortable in your current home – just improved!
What’s more, converting your home can add to it’s value significantly, with an additional bedroom via a loft conversion or extension being the most coveted feature amongst buyers. Converting your home will allow you to decide exactly how you want that extra space to look, and what features are important to you – your level of design control is much more limited when looking to buy a new house.
You can add space to your home in a number of ways, and here at AKB Lofts our experts are trained in a range of extension types. We’ve listed your options here.
Loft conversions
A loft conversion is an innovative way of adding space to your home without the expense of moving or extending the entire house. Loft conversions are often one of the more budget friendly options for converting your home and often do not require planning permission to go ahead (always check with your local planning authority first). What’s more, loft conversions provide the option of deciding exactly what your new room will be; creating an additional bedroom in the loft conversion can add up to 10% to the value of your home, for example.
House extensions
Likewise, house extensions are an affordable and easy way to add more space to your current home, without the stress of uprooting to a larger house. House extensions are ideal for creating additional living space or even an extra bedroom for your home, although the more complex structural changes will mean that this can be a more expensive option. Extensions will also often require planning permission in order to be carried out.
Garage conversions
For those whose garage is more of a disused storage container than a functioning space, a garage conversion is the perfect way of utilizing your existing space to create a usable living space for all the family.
Here at AKB Lofts, our experts are specialists no matter what type of conversion you choose. We’re on hand throughout the process, offering you peace of mind during the work and after.
For more information, feel free to contact us today and we’ll be happy to help.