4 Great Ways To Add Square Footage To Your Home

1. 4 Great Ways To Add Square Footage To Your Home

2. Adding extra square footage to your home isn’t always possible – a lot will depend on your home’s dimensions and whether permission would be granted by local building authorities – but in those circumstances when it is possible, a lot can be achieved with a simple bump-out, dormer, second floor or two-floor addition. Let’s look at these 4 great ways to add square footage to your home in a little more detail: 1. Bump-outs By simply expanding a space or room in your home outward (better known as a bump-out), you can gain a whole extra usable area, and these can be carried out on the first floor of a home, or in some instances, on the second floor.

3. For anyone planning to bump the walls out on the second floor of their home, to make it match the first floor’s footprint, doing so can help you create a wonderful primary suite or home office. Usually added to the rear of a property, this is because oftentimes, there will be restrictions on what you can add to the sides and front of your home. Dormers ● By extending an existing sloping roof, while dormer additions don’t add a whole heap of extra usable space, they can be invaluable for helping to create more headroom to the second floor of a home, without impacting the property’s square footage at all.

4. Bedrooms, bathrooms, or indeed, any room in the home that has sloping ceilings, could benefit from a dormer addition both in terms of headroom and natural light, too, if you were to add a window. For bathrooms that have sloping rooflines in particular, dormers are ideal for allowing anyone using the facilities to be able to stand up straight, where before, ceiling height was compromised. Second floor ● If your particular city’s building code permits you to add extra square footage to your home, a second floor addition can be a great way of enabling you to do so while sticking to the original footprint of your home.

5. This is a significant project, however, and will involve a lot more work and planning than a bump-out or dormer. The foundation of your home will need to be professionally assessed along with its structure, and if the property is older, you may need to have some repairs or restorations carried out, which naturally, will add to the budget. If you can afford it though and are allowed to do it, adding a second floor to your home can bring you a wealth of possibilities in terms of extra, livable space.

6. Two-story ● This type of addition is ideal for homeowners who have greater than 100 square feet that they can utilize within a home that has more than one level, and can help create a whole ton of extra livable space, along with drive up the resale value of the property. Working on the same principle as a bump-out, in that you’re expanding the blueprint of your home, instead of creating a single floor bump-out, however, you’re adding one onto both the first and second floor.

7. Not everyone wants (or is able) to move out of their home when space becomes an issue. For those who love where they live but desperately need a little more functional space, or who aren’t able to move for a number of other reasons, an addition can prove to be a convenient and affordable solution.

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