This is a collaborative post: Christmas is just around the corner, and this year’s Christmas will certainly be very different to the past two Christmas seasons we have had in lockdown. With the chance to gather all the family together for the first time in several years, Christmas may seem slightly more special (and daunting!) this year. Whilst Christmas is a delightful time of year, it can be stressful too, especially if you lack the space you need to host your friends and family. Therefore, home extensions and Christmas actually have a lot to do with each other…
It is no secret that Christmas can be a time of family frictions, with homes turning into family hotels with sofa beds galore! A great way of giving your family more space to host each other at Christmas time is with an extension. Many clients of Simply Extend, the leading provider of home and kitchen extensions in London and the West Midlands, invested in an extension for precisely this reason. There is always a boost in homeowners enquiring about extensions in the months following the Christmas season.
But why is a home or kitchen extension so useful at Christmas time?
Firstly, let’s talk about extending your home to add a new room, or multiple rooms. A home extension does not necessarily have to be focused on extending your kitchen. You can add a ground floor spare bedroom or second bathroom, which gives you the space needed to have family stay at Christmas. Nobody likes sleeping on the floor or on a sofa bed, at any age, so extending your home to provide your family with a spare bedroom can be a real asset at Christmas. If you are lucky enough to be able to have and afford a double-storey extension, you can add multiple rooms to your home for optimal comfort when hosting others!
However, for most homeowners the main area of contrition tends to be the kitchen area, with there simply being not enough space to cook and entertain on Christmas day. With a kitchen extension, you can either create a larger kitchen, by adding in more surfaces around the walls of the extended kitchen space or add a kitchen island to the centre. This provides you with ample space to cook all the different traditional dishes for your family, without having to juggle roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and the turkey in one oven and one kitchen surface!
You could also choose to create a new dining space too, allowing you to separate the stress of the kitchen with the social space for your family. This is great at Christmas, as you can ban any pesky nibblers or excitable children from the kitchen area and contain the excitement to the dining room! Equally, have you considered having a utility room? A kitchen extension is great way of adding in a utility room to your kitchen area, that can help with the dreaded Christmas clean-up.
A home or kitchen extension can help you to have a calm and organised Christmas with your family – and who doesn’t want that?!