Your family is growing, and you need more space, but can’t afford to move, and like the area you’re in. Have you considered adding an addition? Adding an addition to your home can add the space your family needs, value to your home, lets you stay in your neighborhood, is less expensive then buying a new house, and let’s you make your dream home. Have I piqued your interest now? Learn more about the benefits of a home addition below.
1. Adds Space
The first and most obvious of the benefits of a home addition is the added space it gives your home. By adding an addition to your home, you increase its size and add rooms. You can choose the kind of rooms to fit your family’s needs. Maybe you’ve just had your second child, a boy, but you already have a girl and you only have two bedrooms. With an addition you can add a new master suite for yourself (larger then your previous suite) and a family room. That way both your children get rooms to themselves and there’s more room for them to play (and for you to store things) as they grow. An addition not only adds more space, but allows you to repurpose previous rooms. For example, now that you have a family room for the kids to play in, you can turn the old den into a home office, so you can spend more time with your family.
2. Adds Value to Your Home
The primary purpose of an addition to your home is so that you and your family can live in it longer, however if you do have to sell your home an addition adds value to your home. All additions add value to your home, period, regardless, of the kind of addition, because of the added square footage. However, certain additions do have more value then others. Adding extra bathrooms, bedrooms, and adding rooms with more and larger windows are good bets for a high return value for your home. If you are adding to your home, consider not only what you need, but what can add future value in the case that you do want to sell.
3. You Can Stay Where You Are
You chose where you wanted to live very carefully, it has good schools, and is a nice safe neighborhood and now you’ve put down roots. You have friends; your children have friends, why leave them if you don’t have to? If your community and neighborhood are important to you then you shouldn’t leave. An addition can allow you to stay in your current house without moving, so you don’t have to pull you your roots anytime soon.
4. Less Expensive then Buying a New House
If you want to stay in the same neighborhood, adding an addition is less expensive then buying a new larger house. You don’t have to take out as large a loan to finance an addition; you don’t need to worry about selling a house; you don’t have to worry about dealing with realtors or closing costs. All in all, the expense both monetarily and stress wise, of having an addition built is less then selling your house and buying a new home.
5. Customizing Your Home to Fit Your Tastes
Outside of building a new home from scratch, you won’t find your dream home on the market or, if you do, it will be over your budget. By adding additions, updating, and remodeling your house, you can make your current house your dream house. Do you want a sunroom attached to your house? Don’t buy a new house with a sunroom, add an addition. What about a Victorian style turret, a man cave, bathroom with heated floors, game room, or a jam space to play your guitar? You can use an addition to make your current home, your dream home.
Interested in all of the benefits of a home addition?
Want an addition for your home? Call Cedar Square Homes. We’re one of Maryland’s most trusted contracting companies and can build your home addition quickly, and at an affordable price. Our work crews are active throughout the winter and all year round. We’ll work through any conditions to build your home the way you want it.
You will have direct access to your project manager though the entire process. Calls are answered promptly and messages are returned within 24 hours.
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