Remember when a basement was somewhere you chucked the junk you couldn’t bear to throw out? Well, not any more. The basements of today are being turned into cinema rooms, gyms, spas and even an entire new below-ground floor for teens to live in.

And it makes sense. After all, if you can’t build ‘outwards’ or ‘upwards’ due to planning regulations, then you can use the extra space below to create that extra house space you have been craving. Certainly, with the trend for working from home the pandemic has wrought, a basement extension is the ideal space for an office.

Just because it’s the basement, it doesn’t mean that your new extension has to be dark. Many basements these days have glass walls and natural lighting – some are incorporated into a rear single-storey extension. Another benefit of a basement extension? It will increase the value of your property if you ever come to sell it.