Anonymous wrote:Currently adding 900+/- sqf second floor to our current 2/1, one story bungalow in Del Ray. We are finishing basement at the same time.

Will end up being new 3/2 up, 1/1 on the main, new kitchen on main, and new 1/1 in the basement for about 2400sqf total. We shopped 3 Design Build firms but ultimately went with an architect who has done many in then neighborhood.

Then we shopped their plans to 4 builders and picked one. Settled at 350k. We are both lawyers so we drew the contract so tight that there won't be any real deviation from that number.

FWIW- all this work and research got us to the exact same place pretty much everyone else ended up at doing the same thing. 30k0-35k is just the number.