Making a duplex for family extension
February 22, 2009 // Posted by: House Xpert // Category: Duplex houses, Home Improvement
A family might be undergoing a phase of extension. It can be due to three principal reasons. Either the children are growing and need space for themselves. Or you might be planning to start work from home and need an office to set it. Or still, you may be looking for assisted living for your parents. It’s quite a concept when parents can live together yet separated by a partition so that they can maintain seclusion.
A duplex is a perfect answer to all such problems. First, you can look to make a duplex horizontally or vertically. The last addition to the existing home shall be in a pattern that it matches the framework and color combination of existing home. This is important for the needs of homogeneity. You can follow similar or contrast colors. Both provide the same effect. It is significant to use an attaching lobby that can connect the two duplexes easily. This way, the connection can help with easy mobility around the entire duplex.
Duplex houses are a multi-family home which is constructed with the idea of single dwelling with secluded units. The units may run side by side partitioned by a firewall or it can be storied. Verticals are sought where population is dense and land is a constraint. A great use of duplex is when you want to keep your parents together, just out of bounds perhaps. The parents seek assisted living but do not wish to thrust themselves on you either. Here, the concept of duplex comes into the picture in a big way.