Jun 14 2010
So, What Could You Use Your Additional Loft Conversion Area For?
Choosing what you want to do with all that space – quite possibly the greatest space in your home – is the enjoyable part.
To start with, do you want to maintain an area of the loft for storage, and if not, what are planning to do with all that junk which is currently up there? A bedroom with an en-suite toilet is often a common choice, as is a den for the kids.
If you’re contemplating about a attic conversion you clearly have a use in mind for the space. The actual distance from the loft to the bottom floor (where the kitchen area and lounge will probably be) will impact the practicalities. For instance, an attic dining room would be too far away from the kitchen – even if you use a waiter, potential buyers wouldn’t be pleased. However, this distance might work in your favor if you need a home office, because it will be quite quiet. How about a games room? There is plenty of room for the snooker table or table football and you also will not be able to notice the rowdiness elsewhere inside your home.
For those who have lots of items to keep, you might want to preserve some of the loft for purely storage requirements. A lot of conversion plans include nifty cupboards in the ‘dead’ area right under the eaves.
Extra bedrooms and bathrooms – preferably en suite – are usually the most popular and rational options, given their ordinary location at the top of the property. Nevertheless, it is obviously worthwhile including the extras that should add to the room’s wow factor. High quality walk-in wardrobes are a appealing lifestyle extra that potential buyers appreciate, therefore factor one in if you’re able to. A teenager’s space can incorporate space for additional seating to create a proper den.
You will also require escape access in case there is fire – this could take the form of a exclusively fashioned Velux window. The conversion should take about eight weeks, excluding decor, and should set you back anything from £10,000 to £50,000, determined by whether or not you really go to town and create a collection of rooms instead of just one.
How you would like the end conversion to appear is mostly only limited by your thoughts. A conversion that blends into the existing building is a superb solution for most, employing modern systems such as uPVC windows. Clearly, solid-wood variants are going to be more desirable, but they require a lot more maintenance compared to plastic. It’s under your control and the amount of upkeep you might be happy to accept but you are able to develop a genuinely unconventional feature in your home – a double-height master bedroom with mezzanine or even an exterior seating space. Most of these are usually not the most space-efficient options however they definitely bring the wow factor.
If you’d like the inside of the conversion to feel part of the primary structure, make sure the aspects match – skirtings, architrave around the door, ceiling levels and wall colours. Whether the doors themselves coordinate depends upon what you have elsewhere, as all the doorways in the conversion will need to be fire resistant. Also think about blinds for roof windows – not for privacy but necessary if the window allows in the entire glare of the morning sunshine.
Brand new hi-tech gadgets are continually being created to simplify attic living. If you wish to use high, inaccessible glass windows, you could fit them with a remote-control opening system to allow venting. Roofing domes range in design from basic polycarbonate slabs to wooden-framed, glazed skylights with an ever-changing vista. Windows which blend a fire escape are very compact – Velux markets these. Space-saving permanent stairway choices consist of alternate tread stairways and spiral stairs.
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