Fitting Out

Find advice on interior finishing, from choosing fixtures and fittings to decorating and ensuring your completed extension functions perfectly for your household.

A Home Media Centre in an Extension

Creating the space for a home media centre is a popular reason for building an extension these days. As large TV screens or projectors become more popular an...

Considering Garden Design Following a Home Extension

There's sure to be some disruption to the garden when any house extension is built but once the building work is finished and all the trades have all gone ho...

Curtains and Blinds in Your Extended Home

Whether to fit curtains or blinds, or a combination of both, and then which styles, patterns and colours, can take a long time to sort out, particularly if e...

Decorating Your New Extension

Decoration is the final job, apart from clearing up of course, once your extension is finished, and its tempting not to give it much thought until it's time...

Energy Provision In an Extension

Of course, any extension can simply tap into the existing services in the house such as electricity, and gas if it's available. But an extension is also a ch...

Exterior Light and Power for an Extension

If you're doing an extension then you're very likely to have thought long and hard about the power and lighting requirements for it. But have you spent any t...

Fixtures and Fittings for an Extension

There’s a general rule, when building anything, that 80% of the work is completed using 20% of the effort. The reverse is also true, that finishing the las...

Installing Electrics In an Extension

No matter what size and type your extension is going to be, you are likely to want an electrical supply in there, even if it's just for a light. And if you'r...

Plastering and Finishing in a Home Extension

In these articles it's often been mentioned that good preparation is the key to arriving at a quality finish, but it's also important to put quality into the...

Plumbing and Heating Considerations for a Home Extension

As many extensions are build in order to create large, airy, open-plan kitchens-cum-dining areas where people can cook and socialise or keep an eye on childr...

Shades for Conservatory Style Roofs

Conservatory blinds aren't fitted to all glass roofs, many people leave them uncovered, for the first year at least, to see if they are absolutely necessary....