Second story additions in Ravenna & Wedgwood

Northeast Seattle's family corridor — Ravenna, Bryant, View Ridge, Wedgwood — is where Seattle households classically upsize, and increasingly they upsize in place. The houses here were built for an earlier version of these neighborhoods: solid one-story and story-and-a-half homes near the parks, the schools, and the University of Washington. The families in them today need more bedrooms, a real office, sometimes a suite for visiting grandparents — and what they do not need is to leave a block they chose on purpose in a market where the lot is the asset.

Ravenna's housing stock is named alongside Ballard's and Wallingford's as classic pop-top material, and the reasoning holds across the corridor: simple footprints and straightforward rooflines convert cleanly to two stories, and the addition adds daylight living space that a basement remodel never can. Building up also sidesteps the site constraints that come with pushing a footprint outward — from yard loss to the tree-removal review Seattle's tree protection ordinance applies to outward expansions.

Every project starts with the structure. Seattle's seismic codes put real demands on a new upper floor — engineered shear walls, holdowns, a continuous load path — and the pre-war and mid-century foundations common in Ravenna and Wedgwood are assessed by an engineer before design, with any reinforcement priced up front rather than discovered mid-build. Pacific Pro Group manages design, engineering, and the SDCI permit as one team, then builds with the new level weatherproofed above your existing roof before the old roof is removed: the house stays dry through the wet season, and your family never has to move out.

Neighborhoods we serve in Ravenna & Wedgwood

ZIP codes served: 98105 · 98115