Elizabeth · 1910s–1920s, Craftsman and Colonial Revival
The lots are small and the houses are close together, so nearly every addition here is a question about height, not footprint.
Attic conversions into a primary suite, kitchens reworked inside their original walls, and second bathrooms found in the space nobody thought had one.
The thing to know first
Access is a real line item on these lots
When the side yard is six feet, materials come through the house or over the roof, the dumpster sits on the street with a permit, and everything takes longer. On a tight Elizabeth lot that's $2,000 to $5,000 in general conditions that a builder working in Ballantyne would never quote. It belongs in the number from the start, not as a change order in week three.
What is behind the walls in Elizabeth
- Narrow side yards that make a rear addition's foundation work slower and more expensive than the same addition on a wider lot
- Original stair positions that constrain any attic conversion before anything else does
- Chimneys, often three of them, usually unlined and rarely usable
- Basements that are really cellars — head height, damp and a floor that was never meant to be finished
What it costs around here
Same ranges as everywhere else. Where you land in them is what Elizabeth decides.
- Kitchen
- $58k — $135k
- Bathroom
- $28k — $72k
- Whole-home renovation
- $180k — $650k
The age of the housing stock here is one of the biggest single levers on those numbers. Finding out which way it moves yours is what the design agreement does — $3,500 for a room, credited in full against construction.
Request the design agreement- Licensed
- DEMO-GC-78412
- North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors
- Insured and bonded
- General liability, $2,000,000 aggregate
- Certificates come to you from the carrier, not from us
- Building since
- 2014
- 12 years in Charlotte