re: Questions about adding on a second floor

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fwiw, even if you pull it off, these never look good...

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BS. There a lot more of these, particularly in Metairie and Old Metairie, than you would think. And not only do they look good, many look like totally new construction.

Buddy of mine had this little house of the corner of Fagot a few blocks from me :


When he and his wife started having kids about a dozen years ago, they kept the first floor frame, reconfigured it a bit and added a second story:


Note how they even retained that unusual red front door with the round top.

On my way to work, I passed by this non-descript house on Metairie Heights every morning for over 20 years:


Last year, they took off the roof, gutted and reconfigured the inside, raised the inside ceiling height from that old 8 feet to about 10 feet, and added a 2nd story:

As you can see they also changed the downstairs windows - I'm not a fan of the "fake window" (using closed shutters) to make the front facade symmetrical.