Curious idea re extending out under a window...

Might not be a bad idea for people with little galley kitchens.

NT

If its directly under a wide window, one could omit the lintel.

NT

It might look a bit odd from outside.

Actually, I recall when young something similar done to nearby houses.

The kitchen is a lean-to, the roof sweeps down to the top of the window at 5ft above slab. The outside wall (2.7m wide) stepped out on some houses, with stacked victorian edgings to sweep it back to the window line under the window cill. Inside a fridge & freezer sat in an alcove. That "alcove" was formed by the wall stepped back. My eye line was the height of the fridge.

So the "alcove" gained 25cm from removing the wall, plus another 22cm from the step out, with no doubt just an uninsulated single brick wall as the new exterior for roughly 70% of the exterior width.

I do know that house later got a "2ft extension" involving a flat roof extending out from the sloping roof. It does make me wonder if at slab pour they had extra poured and covered over :-) I know at the time one other house quietly rebuilt the lean-to kitchen outside walls to provide a cavity as the slab extended out far enough. It was obvious because (!) the living room window had a brick overhanging the frame as a result, which got fixed by double glazing soon after.

All this was pre 1984... what weird histories... I also recall a local oik council house with the blue painted gas meter having its dials facing the wall when I played there, and the gas board man having a fit when I asked him "how do you read the meter then"?

It would, no intention of doing it, just in the night I recall replaying an image I saw as a child elsewhere in my mind. No idea what age I was, but my eyes were below the height of a fridge.

Box bays do make a big difference on interior space, especially the older timber framed houses.

Hong Kongers do it all the time. Bloody dodgy-looking.

particular bit of wriggly tin you called home, or did you live in the posh part of town with walls?

Owain

This is the kind of thing I'm thinking of - a complete living room/kitchen extension in mid-air

http://g.co/maps/zrbdv (google streetview)

Owain

Nooo!!!!

If I've got my bearings right, follow the diagonal from the top lefthand corner down 1/4 of the way and move slightly upwards. I believe that's where I lived.

JGH

My Hero - 5.01 - The Foresight Saga (1/3)

I can't get a URL link to it, but go to

A concrete box about 15ft by 12ft on top of another slightly larger concrete box, accessed via a flight of steps up the side of the building, with a balcony that was built out over the downstairs' outside yard.

JGH

In article , snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes snip

which backed onto the river bank. They had a cantilevered extension overhanging the river. The extension housed the toilet.....

-locals reckoned that the trout in the river weren't as large after they connected the toilets to the drains.

F*ck, The Tron! Many a night spent in there.