Are you planning a loft extension? Before you call in a company, employ an architect or rip out the roof, read on - George Clarke, resident expert of The Home Show and a highly respected architect, tells us exactly how to make your big spend a successful one.
The big one is to plan and design it properly. People find it difficult to visualise a three dimensional space in a loft. If you look at it on a plan it can seem bigger than it is. Get up there and you’ll bang your head.
What I always tell clients to do is to get up in the loft, no matter how miserable and dingy and dark it might be, take a measuring tape and a piece of paper to make sense of space and to start thinking about how the space is going to work, because you’ll realise there’s only so much usable space – in other words, where you’re going to get head clearance.
Where there isn’t headroom use it for storage. Use the eaves space for low-level shelving, low-level bookcases or cupboards. Get as much storage as you can. Even if I put shelving into the eaves, I’ll put hatch cupboards behind them, because you can get suitcases in there.
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