PORTFOLIO
Longmont, Colorado
Bungalow Pop-top Addition
The before
Linda worked from home, and her office was a corner of the bedroom. That was the real problem we set out to solve. When your desk and your bed share a room, work never really ends and rest never really starts, and for a couple who’d been in the house since the early ’90s, it had stopped fitting the way they actually lived. They didn’t need a different house. They needed this one to give Linda a real place to work, and to finally give themselves the suite they’d been putting off for years.
What made it hard
The space Linda needed wasn’t sitting empty anywhere in the house, so we went up. Building a new room over the garage means working with what the existing structure can carry and tying a new addition into a house that wasn’t designed to grow, all while keeping the rest of the home livable through construction. And it wasn’t one project, it was several at once: the new office, the laundry room, the hall bath, and a full rebuild of the primary suite. Each piece had to be planned so it worked on its own and fit the whole.
Drag the handle. This is the same bathroom, before and after. We worked with the homeowners to transform her dated to reflect their style - their vision - and create a space that feels expansive not left over space.
The clever move
We added the new room over the garage and gave Linda the home office she’d been missing, with a door she could close and a real separation between work and rest. Then we reworked the rest of the suite around it: a remodeled laundry room and hall bath, and a rebuilt, expanded primary closet and bathroom. The bathroom is where it really opens up, a wet room that holds the freestanding tub and a rainhead shower together behind the glass, wrapped in large-format marble-look tile, so an ordinary morning starts to feel like a spa.
The payoff
Linda got her bedroom back and an office of her own, and the two of them got the primary suite they’d been meaning to build for years. The same 1992 house they’d lived in all along now has a place to work, a place to unwind, and a bathroom that feels like a getaway, without anyone having to move.