Raise the roof

How Laurel of SoPo Cottage took this typical 1940's Cape Cod with low ceilings and cramped spaces to a light, bright two-story house. See it now!

The first step towards creating a new usable upstairs was to raise the roof on the house! In this post we share the before and after drawings and images.

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Architect Bill Moore takes a low-slung, one-story house from sad to sensational with some much needed height and plenty of space for entertaining.

The cost of raising a roof on a Cape Cod house is high, but a dormer adds living space and utility to the second story of your home, so it’s often worth it.

A new gable scissor-truss roof creates more functional living space for this former attic.

Replacing a roof can be expensive, but if a roof contains only a small slope, it's possible to raise the roof pitch of a house by building a roof over the old one. This new roof with a higher pitch can be accomplished with premade roof trusses and typical asphalt shingles.

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