Modern Dormer Bungalow House Design Ideas in the UK
A bungalow is a cottage-like house with a single-storey or a partial one with a sloping roof attached, commonly referred to as a dormer bungalow. It was first popular in Canada and the US before hitting the UK real estate market.
These bungalows were extensively popular among the Upper middle class, with both affordability and elegance packed together, it was built as a ‘weekend getaway home’ before becoming the new favourite style for building new houses.
With architectural evolution came the inclusion of dormer bungalow ideas, and the evolution of different styles and aesthetics, like the roofed projections extending below to the windows, creating more room in the attic, emerged. This provided extra space for creating wide bedrooms or living rooms, making bungalow houses a preferred choice, since then.
In modern times, dormer bungalows have posed many opportunities to aesthetically design your modern homes with unique ideas, giving you the room to try new possibilities of giving life to an archaic property. Renovating a bungalow is no joke, as it is situated in a large area compared to modern houses and apartments.
Modern Dormer Bungalow Design Ideas
If you are renovating an existing old property with a dormer bungalow or creating one from scratch, here are a few modern bungalow ideas that will both be elegant and cost effective:
1. Blending home with nature
Limiting the boundaries and creating a deep connection with nature through your bungalow house to your garden using frameless, glazing windows or bi fold doors can make your indoor space look larger and brighter, with a seamless continuation to a beautiful outdoor garden. This floor plan for enhancing your space holds good for your kitchen, living or dining areas too.
2. A triple symmetrical dormer
A bungalow usually is a picturesque affair, and adding perfect symmetry with a triple dormer is an architecture’s delight, giving life to the modern dormer bungalow designs UK homes now mostly have. Adding small chandeliers through each window of the triple dorm can only enhance the appeal, giving way for enough room for headspace inside. Another option is to choose windowpanes, the fencing, for a great finish.
3. Retaining the antique elements
Usually building a new dormer bungalow comes with raising the roof or adding new material to the interiors and elevation. While you are excited about adding your personal touch to the bungalow, give thought to retaining some architectural features that may seem durable even now, or can be refurbished to retain historical features. For instance, you can retain the old windowpanes, made of sturdy oakwood, or the roof material and add it after its raise, giving it a classic finish.
4. Adding personal space to dormers
Keep in mind that dormer bungalow extension ideas are to your unique taste. Ensure to create a personal space in this part of the bungalow to enhance an emotional connection. Adding a sleek bathtub in a bathroom space, or a mini observatory brings in a deep purpose of making the most of your bungalow.
5. Open living and kitchen plans
Including open living and kitchen spaces, makes your bungalow more spacious, and adding contradicting designs like a flat-roof dormer to your bungalow, makes it airier and brighter with maximum ventilation.
6. Fresh exteriors
Uplifting your dormer bungalow with a fresh coat of paint of the current trend in aesthetics, and including sleek claddings and landscaping elements, ensures a fresh look with a touch of modernity.
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Adding a bedroom is now a fathomable dream in bungalow extension ideas where you can create one in the eaves. If you are renovating, you may remove the existing flooring of the ceiling and increase the headspace of the ground level, not only providing more room in the attic but also providing comfortable spacing throughout the house. Another option is to take off the roof entirely and build a new and taller one for the additional room above.
2. Modern roof extensions
Renovating an old bungalow with new extensions by re-doing the roof can be challenging, given the existing materials not being the best fit for modern conditions like weather and durability. Adding this new aspect makes it extend another storey to your beautiful dormer bungalow home.
3. A single dormer window
Here gives a contemporary touch to the archaic style of building a dormer house extension, maximising the interiors by running a single large dorm with multiple or a single large window with a high roof, giving it a modern finish. With a large space like this, you have the liberty to convert the space to a bedroom shaft with an attached bathroom, or an extra living space to spend time with close ones.
Top Trends in Modern Bungalow House Designs
Here are some of the in-trend dormer bungalow ideas for you to explore while constructing or adding new extensions to an existing one.
1. Close connection with nature
Adding wide-frame doors on all corners of the sides of the bungalow, provides access to your exterior garden or lawn from each side, making it aesthetically pleasing, and a trendy affair according to modern taste.
2. Family first
Looking for ideas for modern dormer bungalow designs UK homes should have if you are in a family with children or elders can be challenging. One such idea is removing the loft entirely, to make vast rooms with high ceilings is another option that adds to safety and enhances the look of your bungalow, giving your home a more contemporary touch on the inside.
3. Making more room
If you are a family with many members, a chalet-bungalow type with upper rooms converted to eaves provides flexibility to convert it into a separate room. Adding dormer windows to it makes it more attractive and less claustrophobic if the roof is closer.
4. Running door frames
Including glazed or unglazed door frames running all the way up to the roof, makes it look elegant and modern, ensuring maximum sunlight into your bungalow, always keeping the atmosphere lively.
5. Bringing in indoor plants
If you are someone who gives importance to the original look of your bungalow, bringing in new ideas like including indoor plants in your dormer bungalow ideas helps you have a modern look with a contemporary feel at the same time. Incorporating biophilic designs not only brings a fresh look but also helps create a peaceful and lively atmosphere.
6. Minimal is more
Embracing a minimalistic approach to your dormer bungalow is the best way to live a beautiful lifestyle if you are someone who follows a simple and sustainable lifestyle. Including simple architecture and clean spaces, focusing on quality living with the inclusion of environment-friendly approaches like solar panels, energy-saving appliances and insulation systems.
Conclusion:
Extending your dormer bungalow with modern architecture is a great way to enhance your old living space to a modern one, according to your unique taste. With the best team of architects, designers and engineers, Extension Architecture is sure to impress you with the best modern dormer bungalow designs UK has ever seen. Creating functional yet elegant spaces is our specialty so that you can enjoy your space with comfort and style in the years to come.
