Running out of space for your growing family? No need to move or invest in an expensive addition! Learn how to remodel unfinished areas in your home to maximize living space. With over 580 color photographs and illustrations and 50 detailed step-by-step sequences to guide you through DIY construction, redesign the areas you already have but aren’t utilizing to their fullest potential!

Learn how to maximize the usable but unfinished areas in your house as new living space for your growing family. No need for an expensive addition or going through the trouble of moving to a larger house.

Building a major addition to your house can take over your life or drain your bank account if you aren’t fully prepared with top-notch information. The Complete Guide to Room Additions is both an insurance policy for dealing with contractors and a planning guide that arms homeowners with vital information about the remodeling process. But it also is much more than that: it’s a hardworking how-to manual filled with hundreds of photos that show you the hammer-and-nail details that go into these major projects. From garage conversions to kitchen bump-pout expansions, dormer additions and more, this book will be an indispensable tool for any project that adds new square footage to your home’s footprint.

Use the detailed planning and costing information and room-arranging kit to get the most from your attic project.

Takes readers through the entire process of designing, remodeling, or constructing a dream kitchen from scratch, with hundreds of ideas on layout and design and step-by-step instruction in installing sinks, fixtures, countertops, appliances, and floor and wall finishes, as well as general construction projects, and information on the latest trends in materials and design. Original.

Explains how to convert unfinished space into extra living quarters, presenting a host of ideas for family rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, home offices, gyms, laundry rooms, media rooms, storage areas, workshops, and hobby centers, as well as practical solutions to the problems of ventilation, water proofing, heat, and soundproofing, hundreds of color photos, design tips, and more. Original.