Adding space is one of the best ways to improve your Chiswick home and increase its value. If you’ve outgrown your space, but can make it bigger by building an extension or converting the loft, doing the work is more economical than moving to a larger property.
1. Be careful not to extend in the wrong way. For example, if you’re converting the loft to create an extra bedroom and there isn’t enough living space downstairs for the total number of bedrooms, you’ll be making the house too top heavy. If you’re concerned about resale, ask a
local estate agent whether the work you’re considering is advisable.
2. Modernising a home stuck in a different decade is always going to add value, and make it more sellable and nicer to live in. Central heating is vital because most of us want it, but installing it is expensive and disruptive - it’s something to do at an early stage of renovating. The same applies to rewiring - old wiring isn’t always obvious, but can be dangerous. Having a property rewired is also expensive and disruptive and can create more work and expense because you often have to replaster afterwards.
3. It’s said the rooms that sell homes most are the kitchen and bathroom. Again, this is because updating is costly and disruptive while the work’s being done. Replacing a dated kitchen or bathroom with a modern one will make a big difference to your life, and you can fit a new one inexpensively, although it’s not hard to spend a lot. If you can create one, an open-plan kitchen-diner/family room is the most popular option, as it’s ideal for family life and entertaining.
4. En-suite bathrooms are another good way to add value and convenience, especially if you have a family. When everyone’s getting ready in the morning, there can be a lot of pressure. It is useful to have a bathroom on every floor where there are bedrooms, so, loft-conversion bedrooms with a bathroom are usually more valuable and useful than those without.
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