Second story additions in American Fork

American Fork wears two identities at once: a historic small town with an established core of older homes around Main Street, and one of the county's magnets for young families who want to be close to both the canyon and the Silicon Slopes jobs up the road. Those two identities collide in the housing market — the charming established neighborhoods rarely have big houses, and the big new houses are rarely in the established neighborhoods.

A second story addition resolves exactly that tension. If you own an older one-story home in American Fork, you own something irreplaceable: a real lot, mature trees, and a street that has been a neighborhood for fifty years or more. What you may not have is four bedrooms. Building up adds the space a growing family actually needs while keeping the address, the schools, and the backyard — and it improves the one asset you already hold instead of paying transaction costs to swap it for a newer box on a smaller lot.

Like everywhere in Utah County, the project is engineering-led. American Fork sits on the Wasatch Fault, so the design starts with a structural assessment of your foundation and first floor, adds the seismic detailing the code requires, and puts a snow-load-rated roof over the new level. Design Your Price runs design, engineering, and the City of American Fork permit as one in-house process, then builds with the new floor weatherproofed above your existing roof before the old one is removed — so the family below never has to move out or dodge the weather.

ZIP codes served: 84003