Hi Samantha,

You've clearly considered lots of options. It is very hard to advise without any context or site info. Some ideas you suggest may be PD and others will likely need planning. Some sound much more expensive than others etc...

Is there an option to extend into the roof?

Always interested to explore ideas.

Whatever you decide eventually, this kind of project presents the perfect opportunity to incorporate improvements and upgrades to enhance overall health, comfort and energy efficiency too. These are much easier to integrate before you get too far down the road of committing to a design.

Good luck

Hi, thanks for your comment.

Unfortunately we are unable to extend into the roof as it’s very shallow.

We like the idea of a double extension to gain another bedroom or at least turn them into 3 double bedrooms. However, we are finding it hard to change the floor plan of the upstairs to allow for a hallway to enter the extension. If we extend to the side we would need to go through the bathroom or create a walkway in one of our double bedrooms which then turns this into a smaller room. But this would allow us to create a downstairs bathroom, utility and either have an office or make the kitchen bigger.

Alternatively, if we extended out the back we could move the internal wall between the small bedroom and double to make the small room bigger and we could potentially create a nook for a desk and have an ensuite. Downstairs we could move the lounge into the extension and open up the current lounge and kitchen to make a bigger kitchen and dining area.

Do you have any ideas/suggestions on this?

A couple of options

Thanks Jonathan for your floor plans, much appreciated!

It looks like from your drawings this would be a double on the side and rear?

Unfortunately we only have the money to do two single or one double extension. I love the idea of creating a walkway through the existing airing cupboard upstairs to access the new bedroom, we hadn’t thought of that. That would allow us to create another bedroom rather than merging existing rooms together.

Would you have any ideas on how we could utilise the space downstairs to potentially create a downstairs loo if we were to just do a double off the back? I was thinking we could do a part single part double which might be easier to obtain planning permission as we would not be impacting neighbours as much.