Hello all,
This our current project house
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It's ugly I know, but it has potential. Our plan, once it existing insides are renovated, is to build a double storey extension but demolishing the existing garage and build in its location a double garage with kitchen behind it, with to bedrooms above that.
The footprint of the existing house is approx 9 x 5.5m (w x d) excluding the garage. I realise I'll likely need to set back the extension, so was thinking an 6 x 8m extension.
One of the challenges of the design will get getting a decent roof design as I don't want a flat roof, however the existing roof has a really low pitch.
The existing roof rafters are only spanning 5.5m so in order to keep below the existing roof heigh that would be the maximum size I could use in the extension (I was thinking that these rafters would be turned at 90 degrees to the existing roof and connected to it by a hip), as I can't go for a much shallower roof angle anyway.
My idea was that the roof at the front should meet with the existing roof line, ie have the roof ridge towards the front of the extension, but then at the rear of the extension I would have the roof extended downwards as the same angle to below the existing roof line. I appreciate that it'll mean that a bit off room height is lost in the rear bedroom but at least it allows me to keep a pitched roof.
Does that seem a sensible idea or is there a much better solution that I've overlooked?
Thanks
This our current project house
View media item 50058
It's ugly I know, but it has potential. Our plan, once it existing insides are renovated, is to build a double storey extension but demolishing the existing garage and build in its location a double garage with kitchen behind it, with to bedrooms above that.
The footprint of the existing house is approx 9 x 5.5m (w x d) excluding the garage. I realise I'll likely need to set back the extension, so was thinking an 6 x 8m extension.
One of the challenges of the design will get getting a decent roof design as I don't want a flat roof, however the existing roof has a really low pitch.
The existing roof rafters are only spanning 5.5m so in order to keep below the existing roof heigh that would be the maximum size I could use in the extension (I was thinking that these rafters would be turned at 90 degrees to the existing roof and connected to it by a hip), as I can't go for a much shallower roof angle anyway.
My idea was that the roof at the front should meet with the existing roof line, ie have the roof ridge towards the front of the extension, but then at the rear of the extension I would have the roof extended downwards as the same angle to below the existing roof line. I appreciate that it'll mean that a bit off room height is lost in the rear bedroom but at least it allows me to keep a pitched roof.
Does that seem a sensible idea or is there a much better solution that I've overlooked?
Thanks