Remodel For More Space by Randy Mate

2011-08-05T12:47:00.000-07:00

Just by changing the layout of your current house you can better utilize the rooms and therefore have more space to do the things you want to do. If you like to cook but don’t often sit around your front room you could move some walls, make the front room smaller and make your self a grand kitchen. If you always order out for food you could make your dining room or living room larger by making your kitchen smaller. If you have lots of kids and do lots of laundry you may want to make your laundry room and recreation room larger and do away with your living room. Then you can remodel your remaining rooms.

BUILD A ROOM ADDITION
You may want to add on a bedroom and bathroom, or make an existing bedroom larger and add a bath to make it the master bedroom.

KNOCK DOWN A WALL OR RE-CONFIGURE A ROOM
You may want to take out a wall between your bedroom and the bedroom next to it because your kids are grown up and the room is just being wasted. By taking out the wall you can make a big bedroom and maybe even add a master bath.
You may want to take down an exterior wall that goes out to the patio then close off the patio with walls or windows to make the living room larger.

BUILD A LARGE DECK
You could add a 1st or 2nd story deck to the house with a new large sliding glass door to go out to the deck. You would now have a place to put plants, or for yourself, outside on a nice day.
You may want to add a deck in the backyard up the hill to have a nice view. Even put a hot tub in the deck. Build a deck all around your pool.

CONSOLIDATE STORAGE
Take all of the storage you have all around your house and maybe in the basement or under the house. Figure out how much room it is taking up. Now you can either build a storage shed in the back or side yard, or close off an area under the house and make a storage room there, and move everything into there. Now you have more space to re-configure if you want.

CONVERT A ROOM
You may want to take an unused bedroom, storage space or area under the house and make it into a library, exercise room or game room.

ALL THIS FOR ABOUT $125.00 PER SQUARE FOOT
There are many things that can be done with the existing space that you have and of course you can always add on. Depending on whether you are doing a remodel or an addition the price to do this can vary from $75.00 per square foot for simple remodeling to over $150.00 per square foot to do an addition depending on how much you want to spend on the finish items such as tile, tub, shower, toilet, stove, deep freezer, carpet, marble, slate, granite, gold-plated hardware, etc.