Home Addition & Remodel in Lexington County, SC

Our clients began working with von Ahn Design and once the addition (and overall home remodel) was drawn, we got to team up with everyone to bring it to life. We brought in Haven + Harbor Interiors for functional/aesthetic design expertise. From the initial demolition to the finishing touches, this major home addition and remodel was a project for the books for our Team. The home addition included the following NEW spaces:

Kitchen pantry
Primary suite (bedroom, bathroom, walk-in closet)
Laundry room
Mudroom
2- car garage
Finished room above garage
Covered outdoor living porch/deck

Remodeling & updating the EXISTING home included things like:

Full kitchen remodel
Restructuring the main living area so things were more open by removing a beam in the ceiling (making the ceiling flush)
Paint throughout the home
Updating necessary mechanicals throughout (electrical, HVAC, plumbing)
Refinishing hardwoods throughout the home
Updating hardware throughout
Updating lighting fixtures throughout
New exterior doors
New roof for the existing home (AND addition!)

Location

West Columbia, SC

Project Goals

Expand the home's footprint for a growing family
Honor the home's family history
Ensure the completed project was consistent & holistic so you couldn't tell where the existing home stopped & the addition started

Project Description

2,244 SQFT Home Addition & 2,016 SQFT Existing Whole Home Remodel

(4,260 SQFT at completion including the garage)

PRE-CONSTRUCTION PARTNERS

von Ahn Design - project’s structural design direction

Haven + Harbor Interiors - project's aesthetic/functional design direction

AWARDS

Building Industry Association of Central South Carolina's Columbia Remodelers Awards

Best Addition (Over 700 SFQT)

As a part of this home addition, and in order to set up for the NEW home layout/addition construction, we had to demolish and remove an entire chunk of the existing home. Where our clients’ garage, new pantry and parts of their primary bedroom now sit used to be an enclosed carport/mudroom/laundry space in the existing house. This involved careful usage of heavy machinery, a lot of weather-watching to ensure the demolition happened when we’d be able to protect the exposed existing home from the elements, and a lot of home protection upon completion to ensure the existing home did not get damaged as it was essentially open on one side of the home until the addition was framed. A big challenge was keeping the existing home’s structural integrity intact while some of its structure was removed, but we were successful!
Due to the home’s age, there was a lot of asbestos present that had to be remediated to ensure safe construction execution. This was a days-long process that took place at the beginning of construction.
We had to be very intentional with the interior/exterior materials used to ensure everything looked and felt intentional (more detail on this below)!
Due to the addition’s location and the square footage being added, the electrical meter/panel box and gas meter had to be relocated. This process involved ensuring the wiring on the existing house stayed intact and operating correctly, including ensuring electrical to the existing property’s well and detached garage/barn was maintained.
Nailing down the best game plan for framing the attic of the home addition proved to be a challenge as we explored stick framing the roof system with floor trusses below vs. utilizing attic trusses. We ultimately decided to go with attic trusses that incorporated both roof and floor framing because the spans in the garage were too large to use dimensional lumber or i-joists properly, and our truss partners were concerned about stick framing over floor trusses. Getting to this decision took a lot of pre-planning and iterations with Hoover Truss to get to our final plan, and everyone was happy with the results!
The addition and new foundation was on a higher side of the property/lot with an already low crawl space. In order to account for this, we installed waterproofing and drains along the foundation wall, similar to a basement, to allow the crawl space to match the existing home height without creating moisture problems in the crawl space.

Front Exterior AFTER

Rear Exterior AFTER

Side Exterior AFTER

Overhead AFTER

NEW Finished Room Above Garage

Kitchen AFTER

Main Living Area AFTER

NEW Laundry Room

NEW Pantry

Dining Area AFTER

Home Addition & Remodel Primary Bath New

NEW Primary Bath

Home Addition & Remodel Primary Closet New

NEW Primary Closet

Home Addition & Remodel Primary Bedroom New

NEW Primary Bedroom

Home Addition & Remodel Primary Bath Shower New

NEW Primary Bath Shower

Our goal with every home addition we get to build is to ensure the addition looks purposeful and like it was always a part of the house, from the exterior and interior perspectives. This big home addition and remodel was no exception. On the exterior, we worked with our clients and Design Partner to make intentional decisions that helped tie everything together: exterior shutters on the existing home and new addition, ensuring the brick profile for the addition’s brick wainscot matched the existing home’s brick profile as closely as possible so the texture was consistent, painting the entire exterior (existing brick, new brick wainscot, and new fiber cement siding), redoing the entire home’s roof and installing new shingles on the addition, ensuring the front porch and back porch/deck details matched/flowed together, and the final landscaping allowed the property as a whole to feel cohesive.

On the interior, we were able to lace in the new hardwoods from the addition and kitchen area before refinishing for a seamless look, repaint the entire interior of the home so everything felt fresh and updated, install new trim carpentry (door/window casings, baseboard, etc.) in places of the existing home to match the trim carpentry components that were installed in the addition so everything flowed together, ensure all of the interior doors matched (existing home and new addition), and update lighting fixtures throughout for an updated look in almost every room.

Excitingly, our clients had their second baby as we started up construction on this project. The whole time things were underway, they were able to envision how they were going to make the home special for their kids for years to come. They moved into a “new” house with a whole “new” family dynamic! (One of the new spaces was a BONUS finished room above the garage, which we assumed was going to be a big play room. We later learned this space will double as a space for one of our clients to play the drums!)

HOME ADDITION & REMODEL

Total home transformation in Lexington County, SC

Client Vision & Motivation

PROJECT OVERVIEW

CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME

BEFORE PHOTOS

COMPLETED PROJECT PHOTOS

COMPLETED SPACE HIGHLIGHTS

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