Second story additions in Orem

Orem is a city of ranchers and split-levels. Whole neighborhoods went up in the sixties, seventies and eighties as young families filled in the benches and flats between State Street and the mountain, and those same streets are now some of the most settled, tree-lined blocks in Utah County. The city is effectively built out — which means when an Orem family outgrows 1,400 square feet, the market's default answer is to move away from the very things that made the house worth keeping.

A second story is the other answer. The classic Orem rambler is structurally honest and sits on a lot you could never buy into again at today's prices, in a spot where your kids already have their school, their friends, and their grandparents ten minutes away. It is also the easiest kind of house in the county to take up a level — simple rooflines and rectangular footprints convert cleanly. Building up adds bedrooms, a real primary suite, or a second living area without touching the yard, the garden, or the equity you have spent two decades building.

Because we are in a high-seismic zone on the Wasatch Fault, an Orem second story starts with engineering: the existing foundation and first-floor walls are evaluated, the new structure is designed with a continuous load path, and the new roof meets local snow-load code. Design Your Price designs, engineers, and permits the project in-house with the City of Orem, then builds it with the weatherproof-above-the-roof sequence — the new floor is framed and dried-in over your existing roof, so the house below stays sealed and livable the whole time.

ZIP codes served: 84057 · 84058 · 84097