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How would you extend a house next to this house?

JE C
3 years ago

We are in the process of designing an extension to our federation villa which was to be a linked extension in a style that was a contempory version of the front original part of the house. This was goingvto replace the existing extension which is ugly and doesn't function well. ( See rough idea in second pic below, we were probably going to drop the clerestory windows as they are East facing). Our nighbours have just built their own extension ( see first pic) and at 3.6 m high, it does feel like it will overpower our house and garden if we don't design both in a manner that is mindful of it. We have a few options -

  • Change the extension exterior style so that it is more similar - ie also more 'brutal' and boxy
  • Change our layout so that the house extends further alongside the neighbour's extension ( this just involves switching the alfresco and the living area and we were considering this anyway. Their extension would still extend out about 5m more than ours.
  • Use landscaping to soften the boundary - the existimg hedge has taken at least 3 years to get to this point though.
  • A combination of the above.
    Would appreciate any thoughts and particularly any photos of where people have made a large adjacent extension look good from their side of the fence. Thanks.

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