Second floor Addition removes A-Frame after numerous studies- Anacortes, WA

“After” shot of a Lakefront House (Heart Lake) in Anacortes, that once had an A-frame top.

The A-Frame had been built by the clients uncle in the 1960’s. I tried every conceivable way to do an addition to increase the useable space.

The first idea was just to pop out one side of the A-frame to be able to get a full staircase in to access the upper loft, which just had a ladder up to access.

Staircases take up so much room!

So then, I extended the pop-out to add more useable room in the living room.

But that looked kinda weird and they decided no.

So finally after much pacing not he cost to do the pop-out, it was cheaper to tear off the whole A-Frame and build a place that has more useable room.

This was a better use of the 2nd floor that allowed for. more light to bath the space, instead of being under a huge roof that sloped down tot eh floor.

It is just finishing up construction, as you can see from al of the ladders and equip. still scattered around, but I wanted to see how it was turning out.

The exposed beams go from one side of the house to the other, in a nice shed simple roof.

I really like the rusted corrugated metal siding that they wound up using- kudos to a no maintenance siding that never needs paint! It is called “Corten Steel”, if you ever want to specify it for your house. It comes shiny metal and rusts very quickly over time, to a finish that stops rusting once the surface is coated. It does not keep rusting.

Second Floor Addition in Bellingham, WA

This is the “After”, the black trim and roof are quite handsome.

This was the “Before”. The front door remained in the same location.

Finally got up to Bellingham to see this Second Floor Addition that I designed awhile back...turned out very nicely. It was a pretty nondescript house before. The client is a contractor, so that helped. Added are 2 bedrooms for his kids, bath and a Family Room. Covered deck off the back.

The second floor covered back desk is a great place to hang out!

New Shed Roof Companion to existing ADU on San Juan Island- Progress! SIPS Coming !

The existing ADU is the taller 2 story structure to the right. The owners wanted to preserve the view over the main house, which has the better view of the water thru a slot between a heavily treed site.

This shows the side view or Street view from the gravel private driveway.

This is more the view you would see when entering the Main House from the driveway.

Here is a shot from when they had dug the earth out for the foundation.

Here is a better over-all shot

Here is the foundation poured!

The pads in the middle are to support the floor joists. The walls and roof is going to be made out of SIP Panels (Structurally Integrated Panels).

This is a drawing of the SIP Panel layout over the structure to create the roof. The porch extensions will be hand-built out of fir beams.

This is a drawing of the SIP wall panels and how the windows fit in.

SIP panels for the roof and walls. The contractor is Advanced Build NW, Curt Fialkowski from Lakewood WA 98499. USED “INSULSPAN” for the SIP Panels and they are the ones that did the drawings, so credit to them.