Conversion of the first floor and loft of a house in Mill Hill
Our clients had been living in this 1950s detached house for several years and had carried out some works to the house, including a single storey rear extension. The social area of the house worked quite well, but the bedrooms on the first floor, comprising of a double and a single bedroom with shared family bathroom, as well as the master bedroom with en-suite bathroom, was the area that the clients wanted to have an improved layout.
The main problem was that the master bedroom, with its fitted wardrobes, took up too much space. They asked us to design a first floor extension over the existing single storey extension, to create a larger master bedroom with a new en-suite bathroom and a further double bedroom to be used by one of their children, while converting the existing single bedroom into a study. While discussing the design with the planning authorities, we were asked to extend the existing pitched tiled roof over the new extension. This gave a good potential space to use the loft as living space, where we managed to get permission to insert 5 dormer windows which gave birth to a music/chill out room, another small bedroom and a potential shower room which was left plumbed ready for future use, whilst in the interim being used as storage.