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What is the difference between a home extension and a renovation?
Extensions add new floor space to your home, whilst renovations update or rebuild existing spaces. Extensions involve structural work; renovations focus on improving current areas.
A home extension adds new floor space to your existing property by building outwards or upwards, creating additional rooms or expanding existing ones. Extensions increase your home's overall footprint and typically involve new structural work, foundations, roofing, and external walls. Common extensions include single-storey additions, second storeys, or rear additions that significantly change your property's size and layout.
A renovation, by contrast, involves refurbishing or rebuilding existing interior or exterior spaces without adding new square footage. Renovations might include updating kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, walls, or fixtures within your current home's footprint. You can renovate a space entirely, but it remains within the existing building envelope.
Many homeowners combine both approaches, extending their home whilst simultaneously renovating existing areas to create a cohesive, modernised living space. For example, you might extend your kitchen into a new adjacent space whilst also updating the original kitchen's cabinetry and appliances. Both extensions and renovations require careful planning, but extensions typically involve more complex structural work and longer timelines.
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