Enclosing A Two Story Family Room

This home addition project can be quite extensiveespecially if you extend your roofso make sure you enlist the help of builders or contractors.

Enclosing a two story family room. An entrance with too much space can be drafty uninviting and underutilized. The hall was kept open and made interesting by adding an angled wall p. While the space was impressive this family had a far more pressing need for a quiet area. How to convert an open foyer into a room.

In our particular case there is a loft adjacent to the two story area. We left room for a doorway to a new walk in closet o. After considering their options the family opted for a home addition enclosing the second floor of the open two story foyer to create a new 12 x 14 room for a total of 168 square feet of additional heated and cooled space. Like so many homes built in the past few decades one local familys residence boasted an elegant two story foyer.

Whether your foyer opens upward as with a two story design or generously. Jun 28 2015 adding a room above two story family room estimated cost 4 5k less than adding an addition as the roof and beams already exist. Putting up walls and a roof along with a foundation but it could potentially become additional square footage if done correctly. A solarium is a room thats constructed top to bottom roof to walls with glassyou and your family will be able to take in not only the warm sun and blue sky above but also a clear view of the constellations at night.

Weve all seem them monster houses that only have 4 bedrooms and some have just 3 thanks to both a foyer and family roomkitchen that are 2 stories. Like a sunroom a. I think the 2 story family or living rooms are worse though. Enclosing a patio is going to be a lot of work.

This would allow us to easily add a door to the new space from the loft. It needs to feel like a part of the home and be accessible.