I'm pretty sure I've talked about it some on here in various threads where people talked about doing an addition.
But we purchased our house a little over a year ago. Square footage wise, it's a decent size, appraisal was 3,000 sq ft, but only has 3 bedrooms. I'm pretty sure that's why there wasn't a bidding war, 4 bedrooms seems to be the absolute minimum in our neighborhood (Oak Forest, Houston). But about half the second story was decked attic so we figured we could add a bedroom fairly easily. Upstairs as is has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. One of the bedrooms is large, 17' x 17', so we knew we could afford to lose some of this room to make a hallway to the back of the house/current attic. That room will be a functioning bedroom but used as our game room/guest room when we're done.
The permit process with the city took about 2 months.
Here's existing house and the drawings. Ignore the changes to the first floor rear elevation. We converted what they used as the dining room to an office and debated building out into the covered patio off our living room to do an open concept dining room. But holding off on that for the moment. Also, after getting everything laid out we made some adjustments to the new bedroom's closet to make it easier to access the AC unit. The entrance to the remaining attic will stay in the bathroom vs. turning that into a linen closet. The bedrooms closet will be shifting to where the proposed attic entrance/hallway extension was.
For the record, I know we aren't going about the cheapest way to do this. We looked at dormers, etc. The height in the attic is enough that we could have done this way easier and didn't need to fully extend the existing wall and raise the roof as much as we are. But we wanted a seamless look that didn't look like an obvious addition or an afterthought.
But we purchased our house a little over a year ago. Square footage wise, it's a decent size, appraisal was 3,000 sq ft, but only has 3 bedrooms. I'm pretty sure that's why there wasn't a bidding war, 4 bedrooms seems to be the absolute minimum in our neighborhood (Oak Forest, Houston). But about half the second story was decked attic so we figured we could add a bedroom fairly easily. Upstairs as is has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. One of the bedrooms is large, 17' x 17', so we knew we could afford to lose some of this room to make a hallway to the back of the house/current attic. That room will be a functioning bedroom but used as our game room/guest room when we're done.
The permit process with the city took about 2 months.
Here's existing house and the drawings. Ignore the changes to the first floor rear elevation. We converted what they used as the dining room to an office and debated building out into the covered patio off our living room to do an open concept dining room. But holding off on that for the moment. Also, after getting everything laid out we made some adjustments to the new bedroom's closet to make it easier to access the AC unit. The entrance to the remaining attic will stay in the bathroom vs. turning that into a linen closet. The bedrooms closet will be shifting to where the proposed attic entrance/hallway extension was.
For the record, I know we aren't going about the cheapest way to do this. We looked at dormers, etc. The height in the attic is enough that we could have done this way easier and didn't need to fully extend the existing wall and raise the roof as much as we are. But we wanted a seamless look that didn't look like an obvious addition or an afterthought.
