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Home Extensions - How Designs Have Changed Over the Years

If you were to visit a typical moderately prosperous suburban estate, built perhaps within the 1930's 50 years ago the probability is it would have changed little when it was first constructed. Maybe there'd be a few garages, where they weren't part of the original, ordinarily a ramshackle collection of buildings often produced from concrete panels or corrugated sheet materials. There would however be relatively few extensions once we think of them today. Move forward fifty years and most will have been altered significantly. Doors and windows will often have been changed (in many cases several times as various materials and styles come and go). Moreover the majority will have some kind of extension and many of the earlier more basic garages could have been replaced by more elaborate matching structures. Admittedly fifty years having passed you are likely to expect a certain amount of change but even looking at estates of twenty or many years old today there would still be a lot of alterations. Why are we increasingly keener to improve our homes?

The generation who initially bought those new properties within the 1930's had often result from crowded inner city accommodation so your own bathroom, kitchen and maybe even a bedroom each seemed some sort of away form what you had previously known. By concerning the 1960's quite a few could have changed hands and even for people who had not, people were gradually acquiring more goods. With the food prep a fridge and automatic washer were becoming common so it was beginning to feel just a little cramped. The box room no longer seemed quite so roomy with childrens' seemingly endless method of getting toys. It was even the time when increasing numbers purchased their first car, but they had not reached the construction when given the choice you could actually leave it outside, if you don't wanted to watch it rust before the eyes and not be able to start a winter morning.

The 1960's therefore marked the start to any significant extent of extending homes. Extensions using this era were often more overtly additions to the building with flat roofs being extremely common and windows would often keep to the popular style during the time rather than necessarily match the initial building. Prefabricated extensions also became very popular with walls often of concrete panels or timber and roofs of either corrugated plastic or a felt flat roof and frequently built as a 'sun lounge'.

Because the 1970's and 80's managed to move on there became a growing trend towards home extensions matching the prevailing building. There are several possible reasons for this:-

· Town Planning departments increasing relation to even fairly minor schemes.

· The prefabricated form of extension, particularly when utilized as a habitable room (as opposed to a conservatory or similar) became more technical to justify under building regulations with increasing requirements of insulation etc. as well as perhaps a more robust interpretation of which by some councils. Any savings in price began to diminish.

· Finally and maybe most importantly there was a realisation by householders it had become generally better to increase the risk for extension look an even more integral part of the original building. It was partly driven from the increasing value of houses which at times has become a national obsession. The big scale sale of council houses also increased the amount of owner occupiers who were often keen to individualise them, without a doubt in part to show that they now owned the exact property.

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