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Up side down houses, any good plan ideas?

7 years ago

We are building an extension onto an old 1930's cottage.. only living in the extension for a few years.. because of not much sun light we were thinking would an upstairs downstairs work, which would bring more light / heat in through sky lights etc but there isn't much info or plans out there. . Any ideas?

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