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Mistakes are very easy to make when extending or altering your home. If you get things wrong, they can be expensive and time consuming to remedy and cause all sorts of knock on effects to other areas of your project. To minimise the risk of such problems always: Have a clear plan in your head and on the drawing board of what you are setting […]

When we first started our annex build we lived in a different house to my mum. We were hoping to rent a place for 6 months while the new building was finished and then to move in but due to various reasons this did not happen! Trying to sell our house to fund the completion of the build was a nightmare as the sale fell […]

In order to create our new living space the old double garage had to go! which left a space we then started to build up It's only fair to share…PinterestEmailFacebookGoogleTwitterLinkedin

We all got involved on the project even my daughter did some digging It's only fair to share…PinterestEmailFacebookGoogleTwitterLinkedin

Where do you start Well I am hoping this site will be the starting point for many people in the future. But the first thing I did was to get a pad and write at the top of it what we were trying to achieve. Not too much detail just get down in writing your early thoughts. This I think helps you focus on what […]

Hello, when we first started our annex build we lived in a different house to my mum. We were hoping to rent a place for 6 months while the new building was finished and then to move in. Due to various reasons this did not happen! We were trying to sell our house to fund the completion of the build but the sale fell through […]

Living together helps promote a sense of security. Another aspect of living in a larger family unit which I had no appreciation of before we started. It is only as time has gone by as we have lived together that you start to sense the security aspect. When you are in the house alone [well in your section] it is comforting to know someone else […]

There are probably infinite ways to find new living spaces in and around your house. Building on the side is one of the easier ones if you have the space. This particular house was a 1930’s detached bungalow which had a small loft conversion. The family who bought it wanted to move to a particular area, a leafy suburb with good local facilities and schools, […]

One of the reasons for starting MG Living Spaces is the desire to show people what its possible to do to their houses and in turn what a positive impact this can have on peoples lives. Now I am not one for flowery wishy washy talk at all, but I can honestly say since completing our granny annexe it has given out a general feeling […]

As I sat down tonight to write my latest thoughts, it struck me that I am sitting in a room that for 35 years was a dining room and a very unused room at that. In fact looking back the only time I remembered it being used by us as a family was on special occasions, birthdays and Christmas’s. As I sit here the memories […]