Interior

• Kitchen Remodeling
  Closing off access to the side door makes sense because it allows us to get wall space for cabinets, and countertop close to the refrigerator. The side stair was redundant anyway.
• Flooring
  The palette of exterior materials include stucco, wood trim, brick, slate roofing and flooring, copper gutters and chimney cap.
• Fireplaces
  The new addition occupies the same footprint as the former screen porch, and houses a den with a brick and stone fireplace. The roof eaves start at 5 feet high on the north. Originally intended to avoid a window on the second floor, this decision added a sense of intimacy to the room. A shed dormer on the south side of the room brings in light and opens the room to the refurbished patio.

Construction

• Room Additions

Exterior

• Gutters
• Residential Roof Repair
• Residential Roof Replacement/Installation

General

• Masonry
  The location for this addition came with some interesting structural challenges. The patio concrete slab was of unknown thickness and reinforcing. Nobody was willing to do a stress test on it for obvious reasons of liability, but we did know that the flat roofed screen porch had seen many years of use with 4 foot snow drifts. In addition, the heavy masonry fireplace would add more load (although it was located over a masonry wall).