Grand Designs 17x8 - The Wirral: Floating Timber House

How do you turn your small bungalow from a 1960s dormer into agenerous 21st-century piece of slick architecture, all forú175k? Stuart and Rosie Treasurer from the Wirral plan todecapitate their bungalow - cutting the roof off to leave justthe walls - then balance a big new floating timber box on top,containing five bedrooms. To keep costs down, they take on theplumbing and electrics themselves, spend as little as they canon insulation, and leave elements of the building unfinished.The hope is to get a stylish industrial look in the process.But the stress levels spiral when their neighbours grumbleabout the ultra-modern wooden box going up in the middle oftheir traditional suburb.