How can you add a room on to the ground level of a classic A-frame home?

Question

My dream is to buy this simple A-frame home with 1050 square feet between the main floor & upstairs level. Square footage is misleading due to the steeply sloping walls; useable floor space measures more like 850 sq ft. +/-.

All holding me back is finding a way to add-on another 500 square feet of space in a simple affordable manner! Want to add 1-2 windows on the steep side walls. There's no basement; this rocky site only allows for slab/crawl space. Roof is new; heavy thick corrugated fiberglass; challenging to cut/frame.

NOW...
Main floor: living area (at front), 8' galley kitchen & full bath+ washer & dryer hookups (in mid-section) & 1 bedrom+closet at the rear.

Upstairs: small open loft 4 feet deep has stairs on right. Beyond this a bedroom+closet.

Home's rear is the view side; looking off a rocky cliff to distant mountains with trees below. At night you see the "city" lights in the valley far below.

ANYONE HAVE AN A-FRAME?

LOVE TO HEAR ALL IDEAS! DW

Answer 1

Smiles you really make it tough. The windows certainly would need to be cut into the slope, but do you know who the orig. builder was? Perhaps they or someone they know would have ideas abolut cutting. I'm thinking this isn't a DIY?

The other tough one is the view side, which is where I'd liklely put an addittion. Of course you could do the addition there, given enough land area, and add all the viewing windows you wanted.

I would be torn too I guess in adding on, whether of not to go with the flow of the hosue as is now, or add a regular box rom, and define it's roofing differently.

If you found a contractor, lets say a GC who could do an addition and roofing, I'd push the addition out one side, slope the roof a lot less on it, and put as many windows in as possible

I like the idea of an A frame house and loft, but they do add challenges.

Rev. Steven