Additions & Whole-Home Remodels in the Thousand Islands

What an addition or whole-home remodel covers

An addition adds square footage to your house: a bump-out for a bigger kitchen, a new primary suite, a mudroom off the back, a sunroom facing the water, or a full second story. A whole-home remodel reworks what you already have, walls, floors, kitchen, baths, systems, top to bottom, without changing the footprint. Plenty of jobs are a mix of both.

We handle the whole thing under one roof: framing, roofing tie-ins, windows and doors, insulation, drywall, flooring, trim, and paint. We pull in our electrical and plumbing partners when the job needs them and keep the schedule moving so trades aren't tripping over each other. One crew handles it start to finish, and you've got a single point of contact for every question along the way.

How we run the project

We start with a walk-through and a real conversation about what you want and what your budget can carry. Then you get a written quote that spells out the work, no vague allowances that balloon later.

Additions and structural work need permits, and we handle that. We pull building permits through the Town of Clayton and the right office in Jefferson County, and we work with a local engineer or designer when the job calls for stamped plans. We schedule inspections, meet the inspector on site, and keep the paperwork straight so your project passes clean.

Through the build we keep the site tidy, tarp off the lived-in parts of the house, and give you regular updates. For out-of-town owners, that means photos and a phone call, not a mystery.

What we build

Room additions, primary-suite and bedroom additions, kitchen and dining bump-outs, mudrooms, and second-story builds. Sunroom and four-season-room additions that make the most of a river or yard view. Attached and detached garages, plus garage additions with finished space above. Whole-home remodels that gut and rebuild an older house room by room.

We also do cottage additions and convert seasonal cottages to year-round homes. That's its own kind of work: better insulation, sealed crawl spaces, frost-protected foundations, year-round plumbing that won't freeze, and heat that keeps up in January. If you bought a summer place and want to live in it past Labor Day, that's a project we know well.

Built for the river

Building near the St. Lawrence River isn't the same as building in town. Lots are tight, access can be tricky, and the wind off the water is hard on anything you bolt to the outside of a house. We build for that: flashing and trim that shed water, insulation that earns its keep through a North Country winter, and materials that take the freeze-thaw without splitting.

A lot of our addition and remodel work is for cottage and second-home owners who live somewhere else most of the year. We're set up for it. We schedule big work in the off-season when the cottage is empty, lock up tight when we leave, and you can manage the whole job by phone and email. You don't have to drive up to know what's going on.

What it costs

Additions and whole-home remodels are the biggest projects we take on, and the price swings a lot with size and finish level. A modest sunroom or garage runs at one end; a primary-suite addition or a full gut renovation runs higher; a cottage-to-year-round conversion lands in the middle depending on how much of the shell and systems need work.

What moves the number is square footage, foundation and structural work, how far the kitchen and baths get reworked, and the finishes you pick. We give you a written, itemized quote up front so you can see where the money goes, and we'll tell you straight where to spend and where to save. No surprise change orders unless we find something hidden behind a wall, and if we do, you hear about it before we touch it.