Our clients contacted us to add a second story addition to their original 1950’s ranch home located in the Willow Meadows area of Houston, Texas. Their goal was to add enough bedrooms to house their growing family which included having aging parents join the family full-time. In order to accomplish this goal, we increased the square footage of the first floor, which allowed us to change the floorplan to add a spacious master suite, larger public rooms, along with a spacious covered patio to the first floor. We needed to add this footage to the first floor in order to have the width and the depth to add the second story along with a staircase so that we could fit a private apartment with a private balcony upstairs for the parents, along with two bedrooms and a full bathroom also located upstairs. The result was a large home with multiple, spacious bedrooms, bathrooms, and closets. In order to balance the budget, we were able to keep the kitchen intact which had been recently remodeled by a different general contractor. We are most proud of the fact that the home kept its 1950’s charm and look and the architectural style coordinates well in the neighborhood.