Second story additions in Edina

For two decades, Edina's answer to a too-small house has too often been a bulldozer. Hundreds of the city's midcentury ramblers and Cape Cods have been torn down and replaced — modest homes on great lots giving way to much larger, much more expensive new builds. If you own one of those ramblers in Countryside or Morningside, the teardown wave tells you two things: your lot is worth a great deal, and the market thinks your house is the disposable part. We disagree.

A second story addition is the anti-teardown. It delivers the thing the teardown buyers are actually paying for — new, code-built square footage on an established Edina lot — while keeping everything the bulldozer destroys: the mature trees, the scale of the street, the neighbors, and a family's place in a school system people move across the country for. The classic Edina rambler is structurally honest and takes a full upper level cleanly, which is why so many of these conversions are quietly happening across the city already.

The build is engineered for Minnesota from the first drawing: the existing foundation and walls are verified to carry the new level, the roof is designed to Hennepin County's fifty-pound ground snow load, any new footings go to the forty-two-inch frost depth the code requires, and the new upstairs is insulated to current energy code — warmer than anything the original 1955 house ever offered. Lighthouse Development Group handles design, engineering, and the City of Edina Building Inspections permit as one team, then frames and weatherproofs the new floor above your existing roof before the old one comes off. You keep living in the house the whole time; the street keeps its character; the bulldozer stays home too.

Neighborhoods we serve in Edina

ZIP codes served: 55424 · 55435 · 55436 · 55439