Kitchen extensions in Bournemouth

Open-plan kitchens in Bournemouth housing

Bournemouth terraces in Westbourne, Boscombe and Southbourne often want a side return because the garden is short. Semis in Winton and Charminster more often want a rear box and a view of the garden. The steel that lets you take the back wall out is the structural part people underestimate, and it needs calculations and building regulations. Drainage, the position of the sink, and where you will actually eat are designed before that steel is ordered.

“Open plan” is not a style. It is a room without the old corridor kitchen, with light from the garden and enough sockets for how the house is used at 7am and 8pm. We will not sell a six-metre extension if a three-metre one and a better layout will do. We also will not cram an island into a width that cannot take one.

Poole kitchens of this type are written up on house extensions in Poole as well, because Parkstone and Broadstone plots change the access and the garden depth. Ferndown is where a kitchen extension we have published sits: rear volume and garden glazing. Christchurch and Ringwood get the same build when the house is there. Planning permission is not guaranteed. Some rear extensions on houses are permitted development; conservation areas, listed buildings, flats and large projections usually are not. Living through the works means a plan for meals. We talk about a temporary setup before the old kitchen is stripped.

Dorset kitchen extensions without a package price

People search for a kitchen extension in Dorset and find firms that sell a standard box. Ours is priced after a visit because ground, glazing, the kitchen you want and the brick you have to match move the number more than the county name. The £1,500 per square metre note is only a starting guide for many single-storey extensions. It is not a quote for bi-folds, a high specification kitchen, or poor ground.

The rest of the house can stay. If it cannot — tired bathrooms, a rewire, floors — say so at the visit and we will either include it or point you at full house renovations. Roof windows over a new kitchen, where the roof form suits them, are Velux Certified work, specified with the shell.

Side return, straight rear, or neither

In a Bournemouth terrace the side passage is often the only way to gain a kitchen you can sit in without taking the whole garden. The return has to deal with the neighbour’s wall, the drain that already runs there, and how materials get past the front door. A straight rear extension suits the semis where the garden is deep enough that three or four metres still leaves a lawn. A wraparound is both, and it is the version we talk people out of when the steel, the drainage and the lost garden do not earn the extra room.

The kitchen layout is drawn before the steel is ordered: where the sink is, where you stand to cook, whether an island fits the width, and how many sockets the evening actually needs. Units and worktops are a separate line in the quote so a change of specification does not hide inside the building price. If you only need that layout inside the room you already have, it is a kitchen renovation and we will say so on the visit rather than selling you foundations you do not need.

Meals during the build need a plan. Some houses keep a temporary setup in another room. Some cannot, and the programme has to keep a working tap and a hob for longer. We agree which before the old kitchen is stripped. Ferndown is the published kitchen extension you can look at. Poole bifolds show the garden opening. Neither is a package price for your street. Call 07875 488599 or email info@swpc.uk with a photo of the back of the house.

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