Loft conversions are consistently voted the nation's Number One home improvement project. Creating a new room in the roof is reckoned by experts to be about the best way to conjure up extra living space seemingly out of nowhere, whilst at the same time boosting the value of your property.

Easier than building an extension and cheaper than digging out a basement, it’s no wonder that houses with large empty lofts ripe for conversion often sell at a premium. The real puzzle is why so many homes were built with such huge amounts of wasted space in the first place. g in a typical two-storey house, the volume of the roof space is equivalent to about a third of the combined two storeys below, and in bungalows it can comprise as much as 75 per cent of the existing living space. So it makes sense to use it.