What Are The Benefits Of An Extension With A Lantern Roof?

Aliwood is looking at what home extensions with the addition of a roof lantern can offer you and your family.

We’ve all had days where we wish we had a bit more domestic space. Those days where you keep tripping over your kids, accidentally standing on the dog’s tail and where you really wish you could vent over your partner’s stupidity! Creating additional space within a home is beneficial for a whole host of reasons beyond just keeping your sanity, however, and we wanted to look at just some of them.

Added Value

You may think us calculating and cynical for starting with the financials, but this is realistically where many people will first look! By increasing the square footage your home offers, you also increase the chances of a higher resale value further down the line. Now, of course, it’s worth noting that a poorly constructed extension won’t do your wallet any favours when you’re looking at moving on, nor can we vouch for the overall health of the property market. However, as a rule, by adding an extension (especially an extension with a lantern roof, such as those we provide), you’ll usually be able to bump up that selling price at least a little bit.

Added Space

By creating another room, you create more space. An extension with a lantern roof frees up room in other areas of your home which can prove vital for growing families or children accumulating more and more stuff! Extra space can help create a less frenetic abode, and gives everyone within a family unit a little more breathing room should they need it. This added space also has the benefit of being completely flexible to what you want it to be. You can use it as a social space, a dining space or somewhere for the kids. Alternatively, you can use it as an office or a quiet reading/formal room. An extension works around you rather than the other way around because you’re the one having it constructed! This extra space can often prove the difference between moving and not. Many people do, in fact, find themselves moving home entirely for the sake of one or two additional rooms. With an extension, you don’t need to!

Added Feel

Our custom roof lanterns welcome a huge amount of additional light into a home. The importance of this cannot be overstated, as we’ve learnt from being cooped up for the past few months, maintaining access to natural light helps sustain your mood and keep a more positive outlook in life. An extension also adds a more social feel to your home, and transforms it into somewhere in which you want to entertain people, you actively want to host. Extensions are also great for kids, offering them a novel and exciting addition to the home in which they can play and lose themselves in their imaginations.

Extension Considerations

There are few things to consider when looking at getting an extension done. Primarily whether there are any requisite planning permissions necessary because whilst not all extensions require permissions, some still do. Something else which is particularly pertinent for those looking at getting an extension with a lantern roof is the consideration of your neighbours. Not so much from their perspective, but from yours! By installing a flat roof lantern, do you risk being overlooked by the nosy couple next door? The last thing you want is for your social space to turn into one for prying eyes, after all!

Extensions can add so much to a home, both tangible and intangible. If you add a roof lantern on top of that, then you’re onto a winner! So, if you’d like to find out more about how an extension with a lantern roof will brighten your home, then get in touch! Contact Aliwood today on 01245 967 107.