3 Ways to Add a Room or More to a House in Carlsbad, CA

Adding a room or extra living space to your the house may seem like an unconventional way to expand your house, but if done right, the extra space virtually blends with your existing house, making it look as if the newly constructed room was always there. Room additions in Carlsbad, CA are of many types depending on the type of expansion done, size of living space required and whether it involves a conversion or a legitimate building of a new room from scratch. 

Here are 3 ways in which you can add a room or more to your existing house:

• General House Expansion:

General house expansion involves adding more than one rooms to the house on the side, or constructing a large living space that can be later divided into bedrooms, bathrooms or living rooms. Unlike the basic addition of a room, this is of a much larger scale and requires the fresh building of an entirely new section of a house, and may double the amount of living space available indoors. Even though such expansions are quite expensive, you can keep your costs within starting values of 5 digits if you plan it all right and don’t pay up for lavish decorations or such. General house expansions tend to increase the value of the house tremendously.

• Basic Room Addition:

This sort of addition involves adding a single room, which can be a bedroom, living room, bathroom, multimedia room or playroom. Kitchens are rarely built into room additions, as it doesn’t provide much value for houses that already have a kitchen in them. A room addition is done by picking the part of the house where there is space for expansion and adding a new room in there. Sometimes, it may involve only increasing the size of an existing room and not adding a brand-new room. Room additions don’t cost as much as house expansions and aren’t complicated to set up. The room may be added directly to the house by breaking down a wall or added as a separate extension not directly joined to the house.

• Conversions:

Conversions involve converting an existing room or space into an entirely different one. For example, converting your basement into a bedroom or playroom, or converting your garage into a living space for your house. This may sound like home remodeling or renovation of that room or living space, but it is far different from those. While renovations tend to just tidy up or rebuild the room to serve the same purpose as it did in the past, conversions mean the room is entirely redesigned to serve a different purpose. Like that basement space is cleaned out and new furniture is added to make it a bedroom, living room or a personal home theatre. Or garages used to store vehicles repurposed into a bedroom, living room or bathroom. Conversions can cost quite a bit depending on what area is being converted and what type of living space it is being converted into.