My husband and I own a reproduction saltbox home. Because of the sloping back roof, our bedroom closets and our upstairs baths are very small. We asked Melissa to evaluate the structure of the house to determine if we could “bump out” the back of the house in order to gain more space. In effect to convert the home from a saltbox to a colonial. She spent a good deal of time crawling around in the attic and found that the way the back structure of the house was designed, which included a beam that we were not aware of that tied the two sides of the house together, our idea of a simple “bump out” was impractical and would necessitate significant structural alternations. Her findings saved us v...
Kathryn Welch