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On a typical Auburn historic home renovation our phasing runs: phase 1 builds out a downstairs guest bath and sets up the family’s temporary kitchen; phase 2 gut-renovates the primary upstairs bath while the family uses the new guest bath; phase 3 gut-renovates the kitchen while the family uses the temporary kitchen; phase 4 hits the remaining bedrooms and finish work. The whole house renovation cost is paced across phases so the family is never carrying a giant lump-sum draw at the same time as a giant disruption.
The Auburn historic clients who succeed at onsite phasing share one trait: they treat their daily-living zone like the front line of a small business and protect it ruthlessly. That mindset is what we coach toward in week one. We move the renovation around the family, not the other way around.
– Elijah Mercer Boone, Lead Project Manager
Onsite phasing typically adds 18 to 28 percent to the total project timeline and 8 to 15 percent to the budget compared to a vacant-house renovation. The cost comes from slower trade scheduling, daily containment, and additional supervision. The benefit is the family stays in the home they love throughout, and the home holds its emotional value during a long disruptive process.
Some Auburn families combine the phased interior work with a rear addition workflow project that gives the family a new dedicated zone (often a first-floor primary suite) to retreat into during the heaviest middle phases. The addition gets built first and used as the family safe harbor while the main home gets renovated. This pairing turns a stressful project into a comfortable one.
SAP Construction has been phasing whole-house renovations in Auburn historic homes since 2016. Schedule a consultation and your project manager will walk the home, sketch a phasing plan that protects your two zones, and deliver a transparent estimate within 24 hours.
A Mattydale homeowner upgrading the kitchen almost always wants a bigger island, and an island sized by eye is the fastest way to wreck a kitchen. Too big and you cannot open the dishwasher; too close to the run and two people cannot pass. Kitchen island sizing code is not bureaucratic nitpicking, it is the clearance math that decides whether the room flows or jams. Get the dimensions right first and the island becomes the best part of the kitchen.
Lyncourt's small urban lots have the same problem on every block. The family room is too small. Whether it is a 1950s ranch off Court Street or a 1920s bungalow closer to the cemetery, the original family room footprint is rarely more than 12 by 14 feet, and modern furniture, modern televisions, and modern family life simply do not fit. A bump-out can solve it in 8 to 12 feet of new exterior wall, but in Onondaga County that bump-out is not just a construction project. It is a permit project. Get the permit path right and the build is fast. Get it wrong and you wait three months for paperwork that should have taken three weeks.
A basement or lower-level unit on a Skaneateles lakefront lot is only a legal rental if it has its own way in and out, and on these sloped lakefront parcels the entrance almost always means cutting the foundation wall. Investors treat the cut as a doorway. It is a structural event. Where you put the adu independent entrance, and how you transfer the load around the new opening, determines whether the unit passes inspection and whether the wall above it stays put for the next fifty years.
Many Minoa families look up at the flat 8-foot ceiling in their living room and see the opportunity that is sitting right above it. The attic space, the roof rafters, the volume that is just there but never used. A cathedral ceiling conversion captures that volume and turns a low-ceiling room into the home's signature space. The conversion is one of the highest-aesthetic-impact renovations available, but it is also one of the most structurally serious.
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