Openings, decks and shade in Studio City, Los Angeles County
Home Additions That Open to the Yard in Studio City
Palmcrest Contractors builds Studio City home additions with wide glass doors on the garden side, a shaded overhang and floors that meet the house.
A home addition becomes the first job in Studio City when the house is short a room and the back garden has space to give. Built off the rear wall, a new family room or primary suite can carry wide glass doors on its far side, so the addition gains a room and also opens the house onto the yard it now faces.
Planning the new room
The addition is drawn around the view out. Its roof can carry a deep overhang or a built in cover above the new doors, shading the glass while daylight still reaches the back of the room. Inside, the floor of the addition is set to meet the existing house at one level, and a wide cased opening joins old and new so they read as one space. Foundations, framing and roof tie into the original structure, and the engineer sizes the beam that spans the wide door opening at the far wall.
Setbacks, height and LADBS
Studio City is inside the City of Los Angeles, where LADBS reviews an addition for setbacks, height, structure and energy compliance before any digging starts. Zoning rules decide how far the new room can reach toward the property lines, so we confirm those limits against a survey before the design is fixed. Inspections then run from the foundation through framing, insulation and final. Once it passes, the doors swing open onto a patio that was planned alongside the room from the first sketch.
What we build in Studio City
Every service below is available here, from a wider opening at the back of the house to a full remodel.
Open up your house in Studio City
Tell us which wall, room or yard you have in mind, and we will arrange a measure.