Garden Home Remodeling & Additions

Garden Home’s charming residential properties offer excellent remodeling potential. Masters Construction brings expert craftsmanship and modern design to every Garden Home project, creating updated spaces that honor the neighborhood’s character while delivering contemporary comfort. Every project starts with architectural concept design, so you can walk the design before construction begins.

Expand your Garden Home property with custom additions that integrate seamlessly with your existing home. Our team manages everything from design and permitting to construction and finishing, ensuring a smooth and stress-free experience.

Residential permits here are issued by Washington County Building Services for unincorporated addresses. Parcels annexed into Beaverton or Portland go through city review instead. The first thing we confirm is which office owns your lot.

• Interior kitchen and bath remodels that stay inside the existing footprint typically clear review in about two to four weeks. Additions, structural work and second stories generally take six to twelve weeks, because they need engineered drawings and a planning review for setbacks, height and lot coverage. Garden Home is an unincorporated pocket surrounded by Portland, Beaverton and Tigard.
• The jurisdiction question is worth checking rather than assuming, and it is the first thing we resolve. Large lots here often carry easements, mature protected trees and drainage paths that determine where an addition can land. A handful of properties still have septic systems, which require a health-department review when bedrooms or bathrooms are added.
• Masters Construction manages the full track: measured existing-conditions drawings, construction documents, structural engineering coordination, the county submittal, and written responses to plan-review comments. We also cover every inspection from footing through final. Because we price the project after design and engineering are complete, the permit set and the contract describe the same building.
• That is what keeps a Garden Home project on schedule once demolition starts.

Garden Home is mid-century, built mostly between the 1950s and the 1970s, with single-level ranches on unusually large lots. Additions are common here for a simple reason: the houses are small relative to the land they sit on, so adding square footage is both permittable and sensible.

The structures are generally sound but pre-date modern detailing, so foundation bolting, shear panelling and hold-downs often enter the scope once walls are open.

Panels of 100 amps or less are typical and rarely support induction cooking, a heat pump or EV charging without an upgrade. Expect thin or absent wall insulation, original single-pane or early aluminum windows, and galvanized or early copper supply lines. In pre-1980 homes, lead paint and asbestos in flooring mastic or duct wrap require licensed abatement before demolition.

The reward is layout freedom. A ground-floor addition on a Garden Home lot can deliver a primary suite, a real kitchen and a covered outdoor room while the house stays single level. That is exactly what most owners here want long term.