Usually the same construction companies who do loft extensions will also carry out home extensions. Extending your home could affect immediate neighbours and this is why getting the correct planning permission is critical. Planning permission will also be necessary, and there could be some hassle linked with this procedure.
Space is a major issue when considering house extensions, not all properties have enough space to do it.
Possibly the most favoured way that householders do this is with a home extension. Of course loft extensions are not the sole way to generate some additional space in your home. In Great Britain loft conversion is a really attractive option in big cities like Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and London, where land is scarce and any means to achieve further living space without extending the footprint of a building is sought after. It was not until 1971 that New York City ultimately made this practise legal, and after this various other areas of the city including Manhattan, Chelsea, Greenwich Village and Tribeca joined the revolution, and "loft living" became the thing to do for the talented, young and wealthy. The situation was that those industrial buildings and zones were not set aside for residential use, and consequently were mainly illegal in the day. The neighbourhood involved in this innovative building craze was New York's Soho district, where fashionable, new living spaces were built by local artists and designers in the upper levels of tumbledown industrial buildings. While the idea of a loft conversion might be considered a very "British" thing, some of the earliest loft conversions and possibly the first ideas for transforming lofts started in 1960's America.