Everyone wants a little more room because of many reasons. Whether your family is growing, children, parents are moving back home. You feel like you’ve been living in that house for centuries and yet you want a new ambiance that will still make you feel at home just like before but a bigger one and an updated one.
- Connect to the yard. The common addition has to be one that attaches onto the back of the house. It may be an extension of the kitchen, family room, or any you can think of. Having a new addition place in the house will be great because it has the ability to strengthen the house’s connection to its yard.
- Use different materials. Advantage of having another addition would be the chance to change the materials rather than trying to match an existing brick, which could be expensive and problematic.
- Mind the scale. Huge addition can too be overwhelming to the existing structure.
- Stretch it out. If the site is large enough try stretching the house across the property. This will make what might seem to be large and massive into a series of small connected pavilions.
- Raise the roof. Visualize a 2nd floor addition in a more urban area with little opportunity to expand horizontally. This concerns the strategy on a small lot and the addition is large.
