How we plan your addition for design and construction !
Adding on a four-seasons sun room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, or study can be a simple and (relatively) inexpensive way to improve your home and your way of life.
Addition To Existing Structure
Imagine if you and your spouse didn’t have to use the bathroom in shifts, if the kids each had their own rooms, if you had a guest bathroom, or even a home office. Things would certainly change in your home. The possibilities for a home addition are limited only by your imagination, and of course the bank that’s holding the note. But let’s not get bogged down with the legalities and discuss some of the first steps to adding living space to your home:
Determine Your Property Lines
We will locate your property lines for your architectual planning design and develop a plot plan which would include your home, landscaping and the location of all street utilities which enter your home. This is important information because local codes have restrictions with regard to how close you can build to your neighbours home and yard.
Develop a Design that Complements Your Current Floor Plan
Helps us look at the structure and the floor plan of your home. With the help of our certified engineer, professional carpenter, residential designer or architect, develop a plan to provide the most attractive, useful and economical addition to your home. Don’t just think about how you will live in your addition, also consider how it architecturally effects the look of your home from the outside.
Create the Plans
The last step before the renovation work begins is to have detailed descriptions of the materials and the scope of the work to be done. If you don’t tire of decision making, make a list of all the materials, and then include your first, second, and third choices. You might find that your first preferences are too expensive, but that second on your list is acceptable. So figure out what you can’t live without, where you can compromise, and where you can go dirt cheap.
Home Addition Cost
In our experiences homeowners always want to know what home additions cost and how to reduce the final price tag without sacrificing anything they can’t live without. This is a very normal reaction, especially given the size and scope of an adding an addition to your home. The truth of the matter is that unless money is no object, you will likely end up making some cuts to get what you want, so enter this process with that in mind.
It is often the case that homeowners try to build that dream four seasons out of their addition—decking it out with great flooring, furniture, electrical advantages, and new paint—only to find that now it doesn’t fit with the rest of the home. Now it feels like you are walking out of one home into another.
This is pretty common, but it’s also something you want to consider before you begin. Maybe you are looking for a complete redesign of your home, and the addition is a bonus on top of that. Great. However, if you weren’t expecting a complete revision of your current space in your total home addition cost, you might develop an intense love relationship with your new home addition.
Try to match the flooring in the addition with the room leading into it. This will be nearly impossible, unless the flooring in the adjacent rooms is relatively new or repaired. All flooring material fades and gets dirtier with age, so just do the best you can. Really scrutinize the samples in the daylight, in shadows, in room light. We make sure you have a match. The good news is that in a year or two, they will fade to a similar color.