Space for growing families
Additions & Sunrooms
Most sunrooms are three-season rooms that get called four-season. Single-pane glass, an uninsulated slab, and a roof tacked onto the back of the house at whatever pitch was convenient. The room looks like an addition from outside and is unusable half the year from inside.
Built as an addition, not an enclosure
A room you can use in January needs a full foundation below frost, an insulated envelope, and a roof framed to meet the existing one so the rooflines read as one house. That is a different scope from a prefabricated sunroom kit, and it is the reason the finished room does not announce itself as an add-on from the driveway.
Comfort you can feel in February
High-performance insulated glass does most of the work; radiant heat in the floor does the rest. Both get decided early because both affect the framing. Getting this right is the difference between a room that becomes the best one in the house and a room that becomes storage.
Additions that change how the house works
Beyond sunrooms, this is first-floor primary suites, in-law expansions, family rooms, and mudroom additions — the projects families take on when moving is the alternative. These involve foundation work, structural integration with the existing house, and coordination with your building department from the drawings forward.
Related work
See what this looks like finished
Common questions
Additions & Sunrooms- Do I need an architect for an addition?
- For anything structural, a stamped drawing set is usually required by the building department, and it is worth having regardless. We work from your architect’s drawings, or we can point you toward people we have worked with in the area.
- How long does an addition take?
- Six weeks to several months on site depending on scope and foundation work, plus lead time before that for drawings, permits and approvals. Weather matters here more than on interior work — foundation and framing schedules in Western New York are built around it.
- Will the addition look like it was always there?
- That is most of the work. Matching the roof pitch, the siding profile, the window proportions and the trim details is what separates an addition that reads as part of the house from one that reads as an appendage. We plan those details before framing, not after.
What else we build
- Kitchen RemodelsCustom cabinetry, open layouts, and warm natural materials shaped around how your family actually cooks.
- Custom BathroomsPrimary baths, curbless tile showers, and powder rooms built to be waterproof as an assembly, not a surface.
- Decks & PorchesHeavy timber framing and composite decking, engineered for the snow loads a Southtowns winter actually puts on a roof.
- Exterior RenovationsSiding, entry porticos and weather envelopes — fixing how the house sheds water, not just how it looks.
- Finish CarpentrySite-built stairs, built-ins and millwork — the work that takes a house from finished to finished well.