• Open floor plan ~  An older house with a broken-up floor plan can be completely transformed by eliminating old load bearing walls

• Moving the stairs ~    Often the stairs up and down have become the “elephant in the room” that everything else has to work around.  Moving them can be a lot easier than it seems.

• Full basement ~  Foundations are expensive, but sometimes a nice big chunk of bonus space can be a great move

• Let there be light! ~  Many older homes don’t have enough windows.  New additions are a great way to solve that problem if they are designed smartly.

• Insulation ~    New walls are a chance to insulate really well using foam, Spyder or another new product

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Home Addition Problems To Avoid:

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• Too cheap to be true ~  We find a lot of advertisements out there for cheap additions that trap a lot of people who just don’t know any different.  Additions have so many ways to go wrong.  Check out past work, take your time picking the team.

• Foundations matter ~   If something goes wrong on an addition, it likely involves the foundation.  Make sure you know how water is getting handled, and how the addition will tie into the existing house.

• Frankenaddition ~ An addition can easily look like it was just slapped onto the side of a house.  The goal should be improving the way the entire house works while making it feel like it has always been there.  This requires a lot of skill from the architect, but is well worth the investment.