Taking on a home addition can be exhilarating, exciting, and daunting all at the same time. Done right, it will transform your home and the way you live in it, plus add thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars onto the property value.
But if it goes wrong, it will feel like a never-ending nightmare. To help you avoid the pitfalls, and especially because prevention is better than a cure on a costly home building project, our construction and interior pros reveal the top five awful things they spot in home additions that make them wince and how you can avoid them.
