Why not make best use of your loft? A loft is usually the size of the entire floor of your house, and it often stores Christmas decorations or the like, when you could use it as a study or an extra bedroom.

A loft conversion will be subject to building regulations but not always planning permission, but in any event we will liaise with the planning officers at the local building authority for you.

Garage Conversions

Before you add square footage for a family room, dining area, master bathroom, or home office – with the expense and complications that new construction always brings – take another look at your garage. Converting it may meet your space requirements without costing as much as an addition. The examples included here show inventive yet practical ways homeowners can transform garages (attached or free-standing) to solve the space-crunch. The beauty of re-modeling a garage is that the shell of the building – often with both electricity and plumbing – already exists. Structurally, all that's needed is to close off the garage door opening and perhaps open up the wall between the garage and the house.

Since an attached garage is usually close to the kitchen, it's a good candidate for conversion to a family room or a great room combining kitchen, dining, and low-key entertaining functions.

A free-standing garage offers the most flexibility. It might become a home office, a guest house, an entertaining room that opens on the rear garden, a living space for grown children, or an art studio or workshop. A hallway or covered pathway linking it to the house creates a sheltered compound. French doors on the garden-facing wall can give it a cottage look. Connect the house and garage by removing traces of the old driveway and the old door.

As with any remodel, garage conversions require planning permission and must meet building regulations and requirements. Again we will liaise with the planning officers at the local building authority for you, to take the hassle out of the process.