Home Additionsin the Twin Cities

Grow the house instead of leaving it.

Sometimes the house is right but the square footage is not. An addition lets you keep the neighborhood, the schools, and the yard you like while getting the primary suite, family room, mudroom, or extra bedroom the house never had. Done well, an addition reads like it was part of the original design, inside and out.

An addition is genuinely a small construction project: footings, framing, roofline, siding, windows, mechanicals, and finishes, all tied into a house that people are living in. That is general contractor work, and it is what Trust Works does. One crew plans the project, pulls the permits, coordinates the trades, and stays accountable until the new rooms are finished and the seam with the old house has disappeared.

The right addition depends on your lot, your foundation, and what you need the space to do. These are the main paths, and we help you pick the one that gets the most room for the money.

Not sure which direction makes sense? We look at the lot, the structure, and the budget together and tell you what we would build on our own house.

The seam is the craft.

Anyone can put a box next to a house. The craft of an addition is in the tie-in: a roofline that drains and vents correctly where new meets old, framing that carries its loads into proper footings, siding and trim that line up, and floors that meet without a step you never wanted. We plan the tie-in first, because it is the part you cannot fix cheaply later.

The other half of a good addition is invisible. New walls and roofs get air-sealed and insulated to modern standards, which usually makes the addition the most comfortable room in the house, and we take the opportunity to improve the envelope where the two structures join. Heating and cooling are extended and sized so the new space holds temperature with the rest of the home.