Northfield House Renovation

With the planned extension, there would be a need to have a structural column in place in the corner of the existing building to support the required steel beams. This posed a constraint to our design and layout as we would have to plan our kitchen to accommodate this column. As our architect was using traditional methods, we were concerned about how the space would flow within the kitchen given the constraint of having a required structural column. We were also keen to get a visualisation of the extension to determine how the changes would impact the existing building. As such we were able to find a local company who work with architects to produce 3D renderings. They visited our house and after discussing our plans, they took some photographs and we also sent the exported drawings from the software application we used which reduced the amount of work (and cost) they had to do. After a week they produced the following images Artistic Impression 1 Artistic Impression 2 ...

Now that we had agreed on the layout of the extension, a number of questions arose that we needed to consider: what will be the kitchen layout, how many base and wall cabinets? range cooker or not? where to position the windows and how much space to leave between them? bifolding doors or sliding doors? how much is this all going to cost? We've started visiting showrooms and looking at kitchens. We've been to wren, wickes, howdens, benchmarx and a number of local independent kitchen suppliers. We even viewed kitchens at Tom Howleys and Neptune, where it became apparent that we could spend the majority of our budget for the house on the kitchen itself! Suffolk - Neptune Kitchens The choices available when selecting a kitchen are overwhelming and many independent retailers source the various components (doors, carcasses, drawer-boxes, worktops) from the same suppliers/manufacturers, assemble them and give them a different name. You are most probably paying for t...