Find out the potential of a house to extend before you commit to buy
I'm often approached to accompany clients on viewings before they make an offer on a house or property, to see if it is possible to extend it or reconfigure it. For example, in Hale I looked at a ground floor shop with flat above, with a view to converting it back into a family house. Once the client was comfortable with the opportunity,an offer was made. I was then commissioned to do a one day design workshop, before exchange. That way, the client can hit the ground running with building works when they are in possession of the property.
Conversely, following a concept design workshop, here's some testimonials from clients that have changed their mind about extending....
The design workshop was really useful and allowed us to work through a lot of ideas. Perversely though, I think it has put us off doing the extension! You are right in that the extension over half of the return would be lots of hassle and money for not much additional space. However, we don’t want to lose the amount of garden required to cover the whole of the return.
We therefore feel that we will simply spend some money on a new kitchen and a general refurbishment of the downstairs space.
Thank you for your time. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend your services.
Kind regards, Alice, ground floor extension, Hale
We both thought your work was excellent, and indeed it addressed many of the requirements we had. I still have your plans on file.
After some consideration, we actually decided against proceeding, due to the fact that we would still have struggled with the small and relatively dark garden. If we had built up on the side, it would have resulted in less light to the garden. To be honest, both Viki and I find this hugely frustrating, as we actually like the close we live in, but struggle with the property and its layout.
Your services however were very good, and we would be happy to recommend your services to anyone who asked. If you could work a miracle on our garden issue, I would be more than happy to listen!
There are now four of us!
Viki and Mark, ground floor extension
It's not all doom and gloom. for a small internal reconfiguration the one day design workshop is enough to get quotes and make the changes....
Hi Lisa!
Builders start tomorrow. It will be completed in 3 weeks. So all finished by the end of the month!
Really enjoyed the session. Very informative, insightful and helpful. Helped speed up the project.
Annie Edward, kitchen reconfiguration, Worsley
From my perspective, I thought that the service was excellent. Whilst what we have now is pretty much what Joy and I had already discussed between ourselves and with a few others, the session gave us the opportunity to explore and consider options we probably wouldn't have thought of without your support.
We found the session very useful and was exactly what we needed to give us some ideas on what could be done with house.
Joy and Jon ground floor reconfiguration Chorlton
Conversely, following a concept design workshop, here's some testimonials from clients that have changed their mind about extending....
The design workshop was really useful and allowed us to work through a lot of ideas. Perversely though, I think it has put us off doing the extension! You are right in that the extension over half of the return would be lots of hassle and money for not much additional space. However, we don’t want to lose the amount of garden required to cover the whole of the return.
We therefore feel that we will simply spend some money on a new kitchen and a general refurbishment of the downstairs space.
Thank you for your time. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend your services.
Kind regards, Alice, ground floor extension, Hale
We both thought your work was excellent, and indeed it addressed many of the requirements we had. I still have your plans on file.
After some consideration, we actually decided against proceeding, due to the fact that we would still have struggled with the small and relatively dark garden. If we had built up on the side, it would have resulted in less light to the garden. To be honest, both Viki and I find this hugely frustrating, as we actually like the close we live in, but struggle with the property and its layout.
Your services however were very good, and we would be happy to recommend your services to anyone who asked. If you could work a miracle on our garden issue, I would be more than happy to listen!
There are now four of us!
Viki and Mark, ground floor extension
It's not all doom and gloom. for a small internal reconfiguration the one day design workshop is enough to get quotes and make the changes....
Hi Lisa!
Builders start tomorrow. It will be completed in 3 weeks. So all finished by the end of the month!
Really enjoyed the session. Very informative, insightful and helpful. Helped speed up the project.
Annie Edward, kitchen reconfiguration, Worsley
From my perspective, I thought that the service was excellent. Whilst what we have now is pretty much what Joy and I had already discussed between ourselves and with a few others, the session gave us the opportunity to explore and consider options we probably wouldn't have thought of without your support.
We found the session very useful and was exactly what we needed to give us some ideas on what could be done with house.
Joy and Jon ground floor reconfiguration Chorlton
