A-Frame with Bump-out Shed Roof Addition

A-Frame with Bump-out Shed Roof Addition

This modified A-frame house is near our new house.

A-Frame with Bump-out Shed Roof Addition
The house is smaller than it looks.

The house itself is only 26-feet wide. It was built in 1978.

A-Frame with Bump-out Shed Roof Addition
There is a 2-car garage.

The deck wraps around the front and side of the house. It is big enough to put a table and chairs on and use as an outside room, although they don’t.

A-Frame with Bump-out Shed Roof Addition
The whole front of the house is glass, upstairs and downstairs.

The whole front of the house is glass.They have added drapes for privacy and it is wooded enough not to have to worry about too much sun.

A-Frame with Bump-out Shed Roof Addition - The whole front of the house is glass, upstairs and downstairs.
Front porch, windows and roof

The house has had four additions over the years. They’ve finished the basement. It opens straight out at ground level in the front.

A-Frame with Bump-out Shed Roof Addition
The shed-roof bump-out changes the footprint very little.

Below is the house footprint. What a difference adding the 8-foot wide, 4′ deep bump-out will make to the usefulness of the rooms inside.

A-Frame Floor Plan
A-Frame Floor Plan
A-Frame with Bump-out Shed Roof Addition
The A-frame is set back in a wooded neighborhood.