Why settle for less than perfect? Graham Norwood finds out how to transform your home and increase its value in one fell swoop
'The Telegraph.'
Imagine you find the perfect location to live: it is ideal for the children to play in and be schooled, close to where the grown-ups work, with easy parking, and is well-placed for relatives to visit. There is just one problem: the only home for sale there is a complete stinker.
Until now you had to put up with that dowdy house if all other boxes were ticked. But thanks to a growing trend in what architects call “house transformations”, you can have it all.
Karren Probyn can testify to that. The businesswoman found a house in exactly the right spot in Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire, but it was “untouched for 50 years, with a roof that extended over the windows making the rooms too dark, and with too little space”.
So she imagined what the house would be like with a two-storey extension, giving two extra bedrooms and a split-level kitchen, and cladding the entire property with cedar panels to transform its humdrum Fifties look into a highly contemporary, stylish 21st-century home.
Full Article via 'The Telegraph.'
Visitors to the street in which Karren Probyn transformed her perfectly located but dreary property assume a new house has been put in its place, thanks to a new roof, facade and two-storey extension Photo: MARTIN POPE
