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Room Addition Size
How to Determine the Proper Room Addition Size
when Building a Room Addition
By: Mark J. Donovan
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When building a room addition it is
important to carefully consider the room addition size. If the room addition
size is built too small you will be forever kicking yourself for not spending
enough time and money for doing it right when you had the chance. If the room
addition size is too big you may end up with this giant mass of a home that
looks more like a transformer figure than a beautiful and spacious home.
A Clear
Understanding of Purpose Helps to Determine the Room Addition Size
When developing your room addition
plans there are number of factors to evaluate when debating a room addition
size.
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First, you need to be clear on
the purpose of the room addition. You need to ask yourself - why are you
creating the new room addition living space. Is it for a new bedroom, a
family room, a kitchen or some combination thereof? Once you clearly have
determined the purpose of the space you can then assess how much you need
for its intended purpose. If for example the addition is for creating a
family room, you can properly assess the room addition size for comfortably
fitting in expected furniture and for open space.
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Room Addition Size
and Market Value
When developing room addition plans
it is very important to understand how the new addition will impact the overall
market value of your home. More specifically, you want to have a clear
understanding of how much you could expect to increase the value of your home by
building a room addition.
Two key items to consider when making
this assessment is how much additional living space will the room addition add,
and how will the curb appeal of the home be enhanced. These two items don’t
always go hand in hand.
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size is large you will obtain significantly more square footage to the home, and
thus think you could justify a proportionally much higher price for the home.
This may not always be the case however. If the room addition negatively
enhances the curb appeal of the home it could actually counteract the
theoretical increase in market value of the large room addition size. The key
take away from this is that it is important to make sure that the room addition
size does not dwarf or take away the aesthetics and curb appeal of the rest of
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Room Addition Size
and Costs
It is also important to remember to
not to skimp on a room addition size to attempt to save a few dollars on room
addition costs. Much of the cost of building a room addition is associated with
the inertia of getting the various contractor trades on site. For example, much
of the cost of getting a foundation hole dug and foundation walls poured is
about hiring the contractor(s) and getting them on the site to do the work.
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Increasing the length and/or width of
a foundation wall by a couple of feet will have an overall negligible cost
difference, though it may represent to your room addition size another 10% extra
in square footage. The bottom line, don’t be penny wise and pound foolish. You
only have one chance to build a room addition right.
So by properly determining a room addition size during the planning phase, you
can be sure to create adequate new living space that enhances both the look and
the value of your home.
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Addition Bid Sheets.
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Addition Bid Sheets
provide you with the knowledge and information on how to plan a home addition project,
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How to Finance your Room Addition Project -
can help provide funds for your new home improvement project if financing is
required.
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