Budget Breakdown: A Butter-Yellow, Swooped-Roof Houston Home Gets a Secret Addition for $507K

Inflection Architecture adds 700 square feet to a century-old Texas bungalow by tucking a new second story just beyond street view.

Janette Lindner first bought this Houston, Texas, bungalow 20 years ago, before she and her husband, Fred, got together. "She allowed me to move in," Fred says with a laugh. The pair made some small tweaks to the interiors to make the 1930 home more comfortable for a modern age, and they lived there, two young adults in love, happily for years. 

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Stacey McLachlan
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Stacey McLachlan is an award-winning writer and magazine editor living and working in British Columbia, Canada.

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