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A good reference of that kinda thing here: https://yardarchitects.co.uk/timber-frame-two
I think it may be due to stigma around a wooden extension not being a real building, that’s why we swerved it! But tbh that may have been a mistake.
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Cheers. Something to look wistfully at.
Where we are most people would just slap on a 6m extension to our place, but I really like our garden and patio size. So a couple of meters to give the space to change the kitchen layout, maybe free up room for a WC under the stairs, would be enough for me.
But you'd be a mug to drop £s on groundworks, plumbing, #40kkitchen, etc. for so little extra space from a VFM and resale perspective.
I guess that's why that wood extension stayed with me.
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This is one of the things that puts me off extending ours. Our neighbours have a big extension that looks like the Before from that Love your Home VR program thing. It's a fucking awful load of boxes stuck onto the existing building. So I reckon to do ours well will be a big metal load. At the other end mate who's bought near us has the sort of shaped house and garden that a toddler could design an extension and revised layout for.
I have absolutely no idea of the reality, but in one of the episodes of that show the architect designed a side extension made of wood that didn't require any excavation works.
Edit: here Your Home Made Perfect, Series 3: 3. Natasha and Gael: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000wvy2 via @bbciplayer
To me that seemed like a brilliant idea, especially in a situation where you don't need loads of extra m². It was never really explained why but in the program they didn't go with the wood extension. My cynical guess is builders being typically conservative. Anyway thought I'd mention that as if it's viable it could be a way for you to have that small and cheap extension.