A whole-home remodeland 1,400 sq ftof new house.
Two phases, one contract, one team. A Littleton home addition with stacked stone, a triple-gable porch and a two-storey turret.
Two projects, sequenced as one.
This Littleton home addition ran in two phases under a single design-build contract: a whole-home remodel of the existing house, then a 1,400 square foot two-storey addition — full basement, main level, and a vaulted half-storey above.
The kitchen was rebuilt with Decora cabinetry, solid-surface counters and a stone-wrapped island. The primary suite was re-laid out around a stone fireplace, a steam shower and custom vanities. Downstairs, the basement gained a craft room, a playroom behind barn doors, a wet bar and a sauna.
The addition carries two ensuite bedrooms, an office reached by a helical stair, and the turret — two storeys of open-riser spiral staircase that became the signature of the whole house.
Throughout, beetle-kill tongue-and-groove runs across the vaulted ceilings, stone fireplaces climb to the ridge, and alder trim ties the new work to the old. Nothing in the finished house announces where the original ended and the addition began.
Stone to the ridge · Littleton
The staircase that became the whole house.
Two storeys of open-riser spiral staircase inside a stone turret. It is the element every visitor remembers, and the one that decided the roofline, the framing and the finish schedule around it.
Decora cabinetry and a stone-wrapped island.
The kitchen was taken back to the walls and rebuilt: full-height cabinetry, solid-surface counters, wall ovens, and an island wrapped in the same stone that runs through the rest of the house.
A suite re-laid out around a fireplace.
The primary suite was reconfigured rather than redecorated — new layout, stone fireplace, steam shower and custom vanities.
A basement with a craft room, a wet bar and a sauna.
The lower level of the addition was finished as living space from the start: a craft room, a playroom behind barn doors, a wet bar, and a sauna tucked in behind them.
Where the old house and the new one meet.
The join between the original house and the addition runs through these rooms. Matched ceiling heights, one continuous floor and the same stone detailing are what make it invisible.
A house that reads as original.
The addition does not look added on, and the remodel does not look like a different house bolted to it. Tap any photo to enlarge.
Toby and his team are top notch, the attention to detail and the patience they had working with me was not only appreciated, it made the stressful experience of construction work on my home much less stressful!
On a Littleton home addition this size, design-build is the whole point.
A remodel and an addition on the same house, running in sequence, is where separate architects, engineers and builders come apart. The drawings say one thing, the structure says another, and the homeowner sits in the middle of it.
One team drew it, engineered it, priced it and built it
The rooflines meet because the people who designed them are the people who framed them. When the excavation turned up something the drawings did not predict, there was no three-way conversation about whose problem it was.
The scope was sequenced, not stacked
Remodelling the existing house first and adding second meant the family could stay through most of it, and meant the addition tied into finished work rather than a moving target.
Matching a 1,400 sq ft addition to an existing house
Ceiling heights, floor levels, roof pitch and window proportions all had to carry across. Inside, the same beetle-kill ceilings, the same stone and the same alder trim run through old and new alike — which is why the join is invisible from either direction.
Why design-build wins for additions of this scale
Additions live or die on how well new construction ties into old. Foundation, framing, roof and mechanicals all have to meet the existing house exactly — and when the designer, the engineer and the builder work for three different companies, that connection is where projects fall apart. One line of accountability is the difference between a stressful gamble and a project that feels handled.
If you are weighing a home addition in the Denver Front Range, or a whole-home remodel and an addition together, the sequencing conversation is worth having before the design one.
Bring us the house you already love.
We will look at what is standing, what it can carry and what your lot allows — then tell you honestly what it takes. It starts with a short phone consult, not a sales visit — and if it looks like a fit, we come out and look properly.
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