Second story additions in Homewood

Homewood is land-locked and loved — a streetcar-era city stitched together in the 1920s from Rosedale, Edgewood, and Grove Park, whose cottages and Tudor Revival bungalows fill some of the most in-demand blocks in the metro. New construction here arrives almost exclusively as infill and teardowns: older cottages in Edgewood and Hollywood coming down so bigger houses can take their lots. If you own one of those cottages, the market is telling you the location is precious and the house is the expendable part. There is a better answer than the bulldozer.

A second story addition delivers what the teardown chases — real square footage on a Homewood lot — while keeping the cottage, the street's scale, and the details that put Hollywood on the National Register: the brick veneer, the steep little roofs, the arched entries. On a 1920s house the design work is the point; the new level is drawn so the finished home reads as original, not as a box dropped on a bungalow. And Homewood's schools — ranked at the very top of Alabama — stay exactly yours, which is half the reason families refuse to leave in the first place.

The city's process has real procedure to it — stamped plans, a survey with setbacks, erosion-control approval before ground is disturbed, and a foundation-stage check before full framing — and Precision Homecrafters manages all of it with Homewood's Inspection Services as one team, engineering the existing structure before design. Construction runs on the weatherproof-above-the-roof sequence: the new floor is framed and dried-in above the existing roof before the old roof comes off, so the household below stays sealed and home throughout.

Neighborhoods we serve in Homewood

ZIP codes served: 35209 · 35229