Orangery / kitchen ideas - inspiration needed

[NorthDave]

TallMark said:

Wow, thanks!

We're torn between 2 options, either the rectangular/pyramid style roof in the centre of an otherwise flat roof (not covering the whole roof, just a central section). OR, just have a gently sloping roof with skylights. Not sure if the latter is possible or if we'd need to keep the same slope as the main roof (which is very steep)

If you glazed the roof rather than tiling you can get away with a much lower pitch and the glass roof will pour light in to the space. Pricing wise it neednt cost a huge amount more than tile roof and velux.

Edited by NorthDave on Thursday 24th April 16:22

[TallMark]

NorthDave said:

If you glazed the roof rather than tiling you can get away with a much lower pitch and the glass roof will pour light in to the space. Pricing wise it neednt cost a huge amount more than tile roof and velux.

Looking at the sketch from Mr Whippy (and very impressed with the 3d view superimposed onto the picture ), I think the options are:

1) Do the flat roof as I originally imagined, but this would look very awkward
2) Extend only about 1m, by bringing the existing groundfoor "jut out" across the kitchen. A lot of cost for a tiny footprint gain, but would look completely original.
3) Glass roof as suggested above. I don't think my OH would be too keen on a fully glazed roof though, she absolutely hates conservatories.
4) 2 storey extension out the back of the kitchen, with a roofline of the same pitch but at right angles to the current roof. I think this would tie in nicely but would obviously be more expensive and there wouldn't be any rooflight into the kitchen.



5) Bring the same pitch around the extension (but with a skylight on top):




I showed my wife this thread last night and she was very impressed how helpful you all are

[Mr Whippy]

Yeah there are lots of possible approaches to how you'd do it.

This is where just playing with ideas is useful I suppose.

Just say what you do/don't like and post pics and I can iteratively play around with things till they look about right.

Dimensionally I'm being considerate to real door sizes and stuff here, give or take a few centimetres.



Feel free to post a better picture from a different angle at the back if you want and I'll tweak as necessary.


I'll try find some time to rough out the kitchen inside so you can at least get an idea of what a double footprint might look like with the open roof/orangery at the far end.

Dave

[TallMark]

We have another project underway (1st floor extension to create a new bedroom), and the council planning guy is coming round on tuesday. I'm going to chat to him then about what might be possible under permitted developments and see what he says. This idea is a bit rushed but the idea was to get it done at the same time as the other work and avoid 2 lots of disruption.

At the moment I'm favouring this approach, ie taking the existing pitched roof around the new orangery.

Crappy drawing to illustrate:

[Mr Whippy]

Ah yes that works pretty nicely, and looks pretty good actually.

I'll rough out an interior shot and some units to give you an idea of size if you double the floor space this way.

Dave