Home Additions

A Bigger Home Addition Is Almost Never Better Ideally, the size of a home addition is driven by its planned use within limits of the property size. Families with young children tend to be averse to the idea of sacrificing their backyard play space so...

The Cost of Home Additions vs Buying New Homes Sometimes a prospective client will ask, “What’s the cost per square foot for home additions?” We can give you a reasonable idea of the average cost of a home addition because we design and build so many...

Updated by: Kevin Gilday Home Addition Plans: Exploring the Most Practical Options You’ve got problems with your home. The kitchen isn’t big enough. Your clothes and shoes won’t fit in the closet. Every morning the wait time outside the upstairs...

According to one of the homeowners, the old kitchen was ugly! An earlier shed addition to the kitchen had made room for a breakfast area and powder room.  But that kitchen remodel had been poorly conceived. 

Exploring the Most Practical Options for Home Additions   The Tudor style of this two story addition in Chevy Chase mimics the architectural style of the main house.   The kitchen isn’t big enough. Your clothes won't fit in the closet. The wait...

A home addition involves major structural changes to the home.

Home Additions Are Still Good A Investment In Washington DC, home remodeling has evolved into a sophisticated and highly professionalized art--particularly for home additions.  Additions call for significant structural alterations to a house and...

  If you live in Chevy Chase and you are planning to build an addition to your home, you will also have to plan a "home" for all the rainwater that the new addition is going to displace. Montgomery County has issued strict regulations about rain...

Home remodeling, can be a bit of an emotional roller coaster even when all goes according to plan.  We get that. The design process is exciting and gets the creative juices flowing.  The jitters set in as we gingerly make our way through final pricing...

The Great Outdoors -or- The Great After-Thought Gilday Renovations completed a two-story home addition to a Washington DC residence several years ago.   We squeezed the budget in this ambitious design build renovation project to achieve all of the...