Attic
Cherry St. — Newton
Attic converted to a bedroom and bath. New dormers, sistered rafters for insulation depth, and staircase rebuilt.
121B Tremont St., Suite 24, Boston, MA 02135(617) 397-5158
The East St. basement had been used for storage for fifty years. The owners wanted a home office, a media room, a full bath, and a legal egress window so the lower level counted as finished square footage on the next assessment. We cut a new egress well into the foundation on the side yard, dropped in a code-compliant window, and framed the interior walls on pressure-treated bottom plates.
The back wall got a built-in workspace — a twelve-foot run of walnut veneer plywood with two floating shelves and a cable-management chase. The bath is a three-quarter with a walk-in shower, a pedestal sink, and a Kohler Purist trim set. The HVAC was a retrofit mini-split rather than extending the existing forced-air, which kept the ceiling height. The sub-slab plumbing ran through a new rough-in tied into the existing house drain.
Framing and insulation got inspected before drywall. The final inspection cleared with no punch items. The owners had the lower level added to the town's assessor card the next quarter.
“Finished basement with a full bath and egress window. They pulled the building permit before demo and walked the final inspection with us. The framing is square and the trim is tight.”
