Backyard Flats for all your Needs
Ever wondered of having a home for you alone? Nice idea, but to make a home you will have to go far off from a place, so why not build your own home – a small home comprising of say two rooms maybe just in your backyard? Yes, we here will discuss about granny homes today, which is known to the world as secondary suite and is commonly referred to as granny place in the North America.
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Introduction to Granny Flat
A granny flat, which is commonly known to the folks of North American state, is a piece of house that is there in your back yard, solely for the use for the elderlies in your home, it is kind of a home away from home and is generally small, comprising of maybe two to three rooms at the maximum. Though there are some of these structures which are quite big in size, and they are some exceptional and suits if you have one of those large back yards typically found in the country sides.
These kinds of dwellings are mostly popular in the developed countries of the world like in the North American states and Europe where the word annex is associated with granny, but they refer to the same thing. A granny annex is thus a same secondary suite that is there present in the back yard and may or may not share any common storage and they generally have their own entrance, exit, and kitchen, bed room and wash rooms.
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Modification to your Room
If you are looking for some modification of your house, then this method is a nice idea. You can do some too many modifications in the house while if you have this. One principal modification would be to have an outdoor room for yourself, and thus you can hang out or children at your home can enjoy this out house more often. While this place has some of their own facility, but it is not necessary to always go by the books and you can always make some adjustments for your need.
Apart from this, elderly in your house, who has seen enough of this world love some quite nice time with each other, so for them, why not make such a house which will be separate from the main hustle and bustle of the house and also provide some extra comfort to them, and since the house is just located in your back yard so you will never feel that you are staying away from your grandmother or grandfather for quite a long time, and you can just visit them whenever you feel like.
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Advantages of Granny Flat
On a quick glance, these are some of the basic advantages that we have come up with, when we think about a granny flat:
- A nice home, more like an out house where you and your family members can spend during the evening, quiet and away from the main hustle and bustle of the house.
- A place for relaxation and also for some change of mood.
- A place where elderly can live peacefully where they can make some arrangements for themselves and cook or sings or do what they feel to do.
- A place where you can store some extra products that are no longer in use. and use the attic as the secondary store house, where you store those things which you require once in a long time.
- A private suite for yourself where you can do some of your works peacefully without getting disturbed.
These are the basic advantages, while you are left to experiment.