Does my rear end look big in this?
One of the best ways to grow your home's living space is to extend – and generally the only place available to do this is at the rear of your home. We take a look at inspiring rear home additions that have not only provided more space, but style and value as well.
This is a completely new angle on home extensions. What we like about it is that instead of adding a box on the back of the home, the designer has used interesting angles that not only add interest but help the addition fit seamlessly into the rest of the house as well as providing far better indoor-outdoor flow into the compact backyard.
Normally grand architectural statements are reserved for the front of the home and the rear end is typically low-key in comparison. This house extension is an exception with what looks like a dramatic entrance way but what is in fact a kitchen with an extra bedroom upstairs.
This clever extension has added not only more indoor living space to the home, but also a sweeping upstairs deck area, presumably with views.
This addition could have looked boxy but with its full floor-to-ceiling bifold doors and seamless flow between the interior of the house and the deck, it is both beautiful and eminently functional.
This extension does the opposite – seeming to really bring the outdoors in with full pillarless sliding windows on the inside angle rather than the outside. The tiny yard is made to look bigger with a lattice fence and mirrored glass.
