Green and Teggin

Following the publication of my book last year, How to Extend your Victorian terraced house, which is a space planning pattern book based on previous consultations in and around the area, I would also now like to offer one off ideas consultations on How to NOT extend your Victorian terraced house for homeowners who do not have the budget to extend, but would like to make the best use of the space they have. I should add that I can offer this service to all types of property, not just Victorian terraced houses. If you are interested, please email me at [email protected]

Hello Cazz We have experience of basement conversions in the area. https://www.greenandteggin.co.uk/

Hello Emz If you are looking for inspiration for a half house, my book How to Extend your Victorian Terraced House, features an East Dulwich half house as one of its case studies. https://www.ribabooks.com/how-to-extend-your-victorian-terraced-house_9781859469026 Good luck with your project Jacqueline

Thanks. It's actually just called - How to Extend your Victorian Terraced House. It looks like it's still on sale in the RIBA bookshop - https://www.architecture.com/riba-books/search.html?searchterm=how%20to%20extend%20your%20victorian%20terraced%20house

Hi all In case you are interested, I went with the RIBA deal in the end and the book was published last month. It's available on Amazon and at the RIBA bookshop, where it it discounted until this evening.

If you are considering buying a new kitchen or bathroom, please contact us. We are a local, husband and wife architectural company and we have just started a new company helping people to buy kitchens, bathrooms, lights, tiles, radiators etc at trade prices. The idea is very simple. You choose your items, either from our list or from your own chosen supplier and then we buy the items for you at trade prices and we share the difference. These discounts can be up to 20%, so definitely worth considering. If you are interested, please email me at [email protected] or call me on 07961104955.

Hello We are local architects and have been working in the area for almost 10 years. We have a new idea that we would like to test out at planning and are looking for someone who is looking to have loft works done whose house we could test the idea out on. You would need to be serious about wanting to do this work, as although we would offer our service for free, you would need to supply us with an accurate dimensional survey, which can cost around ?1000, but necessary if submitting any planning application, and cover the cost of the planning application fee (?206). We can help you find and brief a surveyor to carry out the survey, and if the application is rejected the council offers a free reapplication, so you would not lose out financially. You would not be obliged to employ us to carry out any further work past this application. Your house would need to be a Victorian terraced house with the traditional two storey rear addition, and it must not be in a Conservation Area. This idea would particularly suit those houses with limited head height in the loft. Please contact us via this forum, or via my email [email protected] if you are interested.

Thanks for all your feedback. I haven't actually had a quote for self publishing. The ?40,000 is what Artifice say it will cost to publish. They ask me to pay half of this and then I get a third of all royalties, they keep a third and a third goes to the distributers. I think I am veering towards the RIBA, as you all seem to suggest. I may kick myself if it turns out to be a best seller.

I am a local architect and I am in the middle of compiling a book of ideas for extending a Victorian terraced house. This book will consist of various case studies of different kinds/sizes of Victorian terraced house, showing different plan options (annotated) for each floor with photos or 3D sketches showing how these ideas would look. I have had publishing offers from the RIBA (10% of book sales, they pay for all production and distribution) and Artifice (33% of book sales, but I pay 50% of publishing and distribution costs, which I think will amount to holf of around ?40,000 for 1000 copies). Neither seems that attractive. I am therefore turning to you to ask your advice. Should I go with one of the offers or do I risk it and self publish? One of the big questions is how many copies do I think will sell. There currently isn't anything else like it on the market. What do you think? Do you think it will sell? Would you buy it? Anyone had experience of publishing? Any advice much appreciated

Thanks Townleygreen, I will.

I am a local architect and I am in the middle of compiling a book of ideas for extending a Victorian terraced house. This book will consist of various case studies of different kinds/sizes of Victorian terraced house, showing different plan options (annotated) for each floor with photos or 3D sketches showing how these ideas would look. I have had publishing offers from the RIBA (10% of book sales, they pay for all production and distribution) and Artifice (33% of book sales, but I pay 50% of publishing and distribution costs, which I think will amount to holf of around ?40,000 for 1000 copies). Neither seems that attractive. I am therefore turning to you to ask your advice. Should I go with one of the offers or do I risk it and self publish? One of the big questions is how many copies do I think will sell. There currently isn't anything else like it on the market. What do you think? Do you think it will sell? Would you buy it? Thanks for any advice.

Thanks for all your PMs. I have now chosen a project to look at tomorrow. Wishing you all the best of luck.

Hello We have been very touched by all the support we have been given by members of the East Dulwich Forum since starting our company over six years ago. We seriously couldn't have done it without you. We are not looking to take on any new projects at the moment, but I do have a free morning next week and thought it might be a good opportunity to give a little back to the local community. I am therefore offering a free, one off architectural consultation. I would come to your property, discuss your requirements, measure up the part of your property that you'd like to change and then draw up some options for discussion at the end of the consultation. If you are interested, please write a short description of your potential project, including the street you live on and I will choose one over the weekend. I will contact you on Monday morning if I have chosen your project. It could be an extension, a new build or just a rearrangement of the interior. You would need to be free at 9.30am on Tuesday 22nd November. The consultation should take around two hours. Best wishes Jacqueline www.greenandteggin.co.uk

We thought you might like to know that we recently gained planning permission to convert a butterfly roof for a client on Nutfield Road into a mansard roof. We also had a similar application approved on Crystal Palace Road. Good luck with your projects.

Thanks Uns We really appreciate your support, and thanks to everyone on the forum who has supported us over the years, we have been very touched by your comments. Ninbi, we are really sorry we were unable to help you on this occasion. It is true, we are busy at the moment and we are very careful not to take on more work that we can comfortably handle, as a husband and wife team, to ensure that we maintain a high standard of work. Ideally, we would like to help everybody that comes to us, and as such, we devised the design/ideas consultation to give design advice at the very beginning of a project, where it can make the most difference and stop regretful decisions being made. The consultation involves one of us coming to your property, discussing your requirements and how you prefer to live, measuring up the areas you would like to change and then drawing scaled plan options whilst there that are realistic for a give budget and show the full potential of your property. We have had very positive feedback about this service. In general, we take on a new project every six to eight weeks and when we are looking, we do offer free consultations. We will be looking for a new project in the next few weeks, and to vary our portfolio, we will be looking for a slightly larger, or small but quirky project. We have loved working on our East Dulwich projects so far and look forward to continuing to do so in the future. All the best Jacqueline Green