If I could add only one thing to our current house it would be light....as much as possible of it!
We live in a Victorian terraced house & our hallway & the central part of our through-lounge gets very little natural light....it's fairly dull on a sunny day & on a autumn/winter/rainy day, it's dark & gloomy & lamps are essential.
Our plan to add a kitchen extension at the back of the house with bifold doors & roof lights will help this situation & will hopefully bring the light flooding in.
We are also adding a loft extension to which we are adding a dormer window & VELUX windows on the back of the house....one of these VELUX windows will be positioned above the new stairs that will lead up to the loft & will, hopefully, throw extra light down on to the upstairs landing.
And we will add as much white as possible....the walls & possibly the kitchen cabinets.Kitchen decisions remain in the dark & distant future though ;)
We've talked through so many options for our kitchen, particularly the roof lights that we want....and we still can't decide. Our neighbor recently renovated her kitchen - using our architect in fact - and the work is wonderful....light, bright & such fabulous windows.
One side of her kitchen has a roof lantern and the other side has a bank of large VELUX windows, watching the sky & the clouds move past up above must be a continual hazard of being there, it's really something.
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