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Victorian terrace side return extension floor plans.
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Side return extension floor plans.
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A typical terraced house built in the victorian or edwardian era features a side return a largely useless sliver of space at the back of the house that tends to serve only as a dumping ground and carves the garden into an l shape.
Side return extension ideas.
Then a rear patio area was used to integrate the home with the garden.
A small project with a huge impact.
In this example the kitchen is kept separate from the other reception rooms in the house.
Side return extensions offer a great solution to dark and uninviting back rooms.
Side return extensions are particularly popular with owners of victorian terraced houses as they can transform a narrow kitchen into a generous open plan kitchen living space just by using that often dark and under used strip of your garden.
Side return extension floor plan 1.
Whether you have a terrace or a semi detached home there are many different room configurations to choose from if you opt for a side return extension.
Here are some examples.
The side return extension is one of the most common domestic building projects in the uk and in the spring of 2015 we did just that to transform our 1899 victorian terrace in surrey.
The bottom floor went from being enclosed to becoming a vast 700 square foot living space with the help of an extension.
These days though this underused but valuable slice of land is being exploited.