Homebuilding & Renovating

ADD SPACE to your HOME... without extending

We all know how easy it is to fill the space we live in — growing families, an expanding menagerie of pets perhaps, a hobby that involves a large collection of items requiring storage and just the general day-to-day accumulation of stuff all take up space. And to add to the spacial pressure on our homes there is the fact that more and more of us are now working from home, meaning a whole new room or space to be used as an office has to be conjured up from somewhere too.

In an ideal world we’d all have the funds, time and energy to add new extensions or splash out on a bigger and better home. The reality, on the other hand, is that for many of us, this isn’t an option.

Thankfully there are plenty of ways to both add more physical space, as well as create an illusion of more space,

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