Transforming a Boring Colonial Home with a Modern Addition 

Wow. Fantastic work. It's very spooky as we're in the early stages of remodelling our family home a very similar (incredibly boring) 1980 Garrison colonial in Norfolk MA. Although we were not able to increase the footprint of the home, we are adding on a new modern entryway and extending a single story element upward with a front gable to create a new suite and gain a much needed 2nd bathroom. Replacing all existing ugly double hung for larger casements and adding arch detail to the new gables with triangular picture windows. Adding wide siding and cedar sections on the new gabled areas. Could not agree more with what you said about modernising the cookie cutter mass produced colonials. We are a British family and cannot understand why buyers do not want to embrace modern housing styles. I liken it to the "Mock Tudor" look that Brits tried do so from the 1950's to the 1980's in UK.

I have to say I'm not really a fan of the first floor. I love floor plans where the kitchen is open to the family room. Often times I find myself cooking in the kitchen and communicating with my kids / spouse within the family room.

That was fun! And informative. Makes me feel I’m not too far off in my decisions when I pretend design remodels for my 1960 ranch or the house up north.

Love this new type of video! And agree with other commenter, general sense of pricing would be great to tie things together.

Great vid Chris. You did say this was just an exercise but you might want to include prices for what a house like this might cost. How much the expansion and renovation might cost too. So we can see if something like this is realistic for the average home buyer/owner. Tbh I can’t imagine what you did in this video being cheap. I could be wrong.