Hi there,
Looking for advise around structural changes to house. I've included drawing of house from front and side- the house has one very large pitched roof.
To my mind (and looking at what others have done) a large dormer is probably the easiest/most cost effective thing to do? In the area marked X - at the moment this is largely eaves/storage. would hope this would give a decent sized additional room plus potentially a skylight (the area to left of X needs clearance for stairs if that makes sense).
The house is timber framed which i imagine will make it easy enough to do...I'll obviously speak to professionals but keen for any advice.
We would hope to extend at some point, and could potentially make that work financially, but would be a stretch. A friend has advised better to do all at once but we may never end up extending.
Just keen to ask as don't want to do the work then regret we didn't do something else!