Porch Enclosure
After buying a 1920s bungalow in Newton, Mass., architect Todd Sloane and his wife, Elizabeth, considered replacing the narrow porch entry off the kitchen with a mudroom addition, but property setbacks wouldn’t allow it,...
Category: Room Additions
Build a Home Office on a Budget
The construction of my home office wasn’t expensive. My husband and I stripped the old wallpaper, primed the wood trim and did all the painting. The pine bookcases, mine since childhood, had languished in...
Plan the Perfect Sunroom Addition
Think of a sunroom, sometimes called a sunspace, as a productive living area in your home with different benefits in different seasons. In spring and summer, a sunroom provides a relaxing living space. In...
What is OSB?
You’ve been hanging around the lumber yards lately because you need wood for one of your do-it-yourself projects. You haven’t settled on one type of wood yet, but in talking to experts and other...
Blown-In Insulation Pumps out Protection
All walls need some kind of insulation otherwise you’re risking a loss of heat in your home through cool drafts, thermal leakage, or actual condensation and damage along the inside of the wall itself....
How to Test Your Home for Chinese Drywall
Does your home contain contaminated Chinese Drywall? This testing advice from the New York Times can help a homeowner determine if he or she is one of the thousands in over 30 states with...
Room Additions
Room additions are complex construction projects. Building a room addition is more difficult than building a small home. All types of tasks must be part of the room addition plans and room addition cost...
Find the Perfect Contractor to Complete Your Room Addition
Adding onto your home is a major undertaking, financially and logistically. As you begin your search for a contractor to complete the job, you’ll start by looking for someone whose work you love. That’s...
Considerations to Make When Adding More Space
As real estate markets across the country deal with sluggish sales and plunging prices, many people who, just a couple of years ago, might have decided to sell a smaller home to move to...