Home Additions with a Design Build Approach

Unlike other remodels, adding a home addition can have complications like zoning hiccups and mechanical or structural complications. This sometimes warrants a feasibility study, which can be a useful process for exploring your options before spending a lot of money on design services. A design-build company is often the only way to get a true picture of how the planning and construction processes will meld together to ensure a project is feasible. Hiring designers & builders under one roof makes the most sense for people who value communication and want a streamlined process from beginning to end of the project. This process ensures the design intent is carried seamlessly through the construction process. It often results in a project that blends into the existing structure in a way you would never know it wasn’t original.

Common home addition projects include:

Primary suite additions and in-law suites
Sunrooms
Two-story additions
Pop top
Garage additions
Room additions
Home offices

What to Expect When Building a Home Addition

The first step in planning your addition is making sure the idea is feasible. For some projects, this is a very easy step because all of the information is clearly in front of us and there is plenty of space for the proposed structure. Other projects may require a survey and additional research before deciding to proceed. Sometimes this phase will consist of preliminary product, mechanical, and structural research as well to make sure our team can meet the requirements you have for the space.

Once feasibility is confirmed, the concept development and space usage conversation begins, ensuring the design concepts will align with your vision. Once we have an idea of what you want, we will get busy drawing, preparing, and estimating for the project and review these things with you each step of the way. Next, the interior and exterior finish design will ensure the space feels right for you inside and looks and functions the way you want it to blend into your home on the outside. Once we have an agreed-upon design and contract, we will start the permitting process and procurement so that construction goes smoothly once it begins.

How Much Does a Home Addition Cost?

The cost of a home addition can vary significantly based on size, complexity, and features. On the low end, odd bump-outs and overhangs (smaller, unconventional extensions) typically range from $80,000 – $150,000. These projects are often very inefficient but still require all the same steps needed to build a house but performed on a smaller scale.

A basic standard home addition size of 20’x20’, covering everything from foundation to roofing and finishes, often starts at $200,000 dollars and goes up. In a remodel scenario, you do not have the same efficiencies of scale that are common in new construction tract home building. This results in a much more expensive project than most people anticipate in the early stages of planning for an addition. We often hear people trying to plan with an average square foot price. We have found this to be an irrelevant metric when it comes to home addition building cost as we have done projects for $350/sf and also $1000/sf.

Frequently Asked Questions: Home Additions

The short answer is yes, for years we have worked to make this a priority for our home addition projects and have many satisfied clients who say “You would never know this wasn’t original construction.” We do so by sourcing matching materials from many different suppliers for each product needed.

No, we are a full-service design-and-build company and actually prefer to draw the plans for you. This results in a more streamlined design intent, which is transferred to the build team, making it easier for you, so you only have one point of contact to worry with.

The timeline will vary depending on size and complexity, but our average addition project will take 6-9 months to complete from excavation to completion.

No. When you hire a licensed general contractor, One of the primary benefits of doing so is that you will shed the responsibility of managing and completing the work. We will pull all building permits and manage all of the permitting and inspection processes for you with your respective municipality. If a contractor ever encourages you to pull your own permit, you should be careful because they are either not licensed and therefore shouldn’t be performing the work, or they don’t want the responsibility of committing to finishing your project and therefore can leave at any time during an open permit.

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Frequently Asked Questions: Home Additions

Can you make my addition blend into the existing house?

Do I need to provide plans?

How long will it take to build an addition?

Do I need to pull my own building permit?

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