Room Additions in Cary, NC
More room where you need it. Built so it feels like the house always had it.
NC License #100043 · Fully Insured · Building in the Triangle Since 2021
More room where you need it. Built so it feels like the house always had it.
NC License #100043 · Fully Insured · Building in the Triangle Since 2021
You need more room, and you already picture what it looks like. The light it gets, where the door lands, how it opens off the rest of the house.
A room addition is a full build. New foundation, framing, roof, and mechanical work. The connection between old and new is the part that decides how it turns out.
That is where AG-CM comes in. Founder Abdallah Atieh walks the decisions with you in order, which turns the biggest project in your house into the fun part.
Bedroom. The most common addition, and the one that changes what the house is worth to the next buyer as much as to you.
Family or living room. Wider spans, more windows, and usually the room that opens to the rest of the house rather than sitting off a hallway.
Home office. A door that closes on the rest of the house, wired and insulated for how you actually work in it.
Sunroom or four-season room. Glass changes the heating and cooling math, and the room gets built differently depending on whether you want it usable in February. See sunrooms.
Bump-out. A few feet added to a room that is almost big enough. Smaller scope, same structural questions.
Second-story additions go up when the lot has no room left to build outward. A master suite addition pairs the bedroom with its own bath and closet. For a parent or family member moving in, see mother-in-law suites. A garage addition handles vehicles and storage.
The connection to the rest of your home is the hard part.
The new floor has to meet the existing floor at the same height, which depends on the foundation the house already sits on. Ceilings have to line up as well, or the opening between the two rooms announces itself every time you walk through it.
Opening that wall usually means taking out structure that was holding the roof up. It gets replaced with a beam sized for the load it inherits.
Then there is air. A new room pulls from a system that was sized for the house without it, so sometimes the existing ductwork extends and sometimes the addition gets its own zone.
From the street, none of this should show. Windows and rooflines get matched to the original elevation.
What the room has to do sets the price. A bedroom and a family room of the same size land in different places, because of what runs inside the walls.
Foundation type and roof complexity account for more of the cost than the finishes do. So does the size of the opening between the addition and the house, since a wider opening means a bigger beam and more structure carrying it.
You get a line-by-line estimate before anything is scheduled.
Abdallah Atieh • Founder
Abdallah Atieh founded AG-CM in 2021 and runs each project himself, coordinating a small group of trusted trade partner companies for framing, electrical, HVAC, painting, and cabinetry.
AG Construction Management holds North Carolina General Contractor License #100043 and carries insurance through Builders Mutual. We are members of NCHBA, the HBA of Raleigh-Wake County, and NAHB.
A room addition contractor has to know how each Triangle city runs permitting, because they all run it differently. We work in all of them.
Tell us what the room is for and we will walk the house with you.