From Concept to Completion...

Thinking of expanding or rearranging your living space?
Consider this: Frechette's can provide the design-build services necessary to ensure a quality product, and a great remodeling experience.

We have an in-house designer/estimator with 25 years of carpentry experience giving us the ability to create a complete set of construction drawings as opposed to a design with minimal engineering and no true consideration of cost or buildability.

Once the plans are completed, our carpentry staff and a hand picked group of sub-contractors with whom we have a long standing working relationship come together, managed by a lead carpenter, to build the addition you've been dreaming of.

Something worth mentioning...
When someone requests an estimate for a remodeling project without plans, the best anyone can do is to give a "blind quote" based on a generic formula and visible conditions. This price often does not reflect the true cost of the job once plans are drawn and revised to reflect the desires and expectations of the client. We have encountered situations where as ideas were put forth by customers during the design phase, the price and expectations of the project grew to the point that after the plans and budget were completed at a cost of several thousand dollars, the project did not go forward.
As we are in the business to build, this is not the preferred result.
If you are willing to give us a budget cap right at the start, we can generally tell you how large or small a project is feasible before you spend money on a set of plans for something beyond your budget.
We believe that by being honest with our clients about what's realistic to expect for the dollar spent, that we can provide a high quality product and a pleasant remodeling experience.

Welcome to Frechette's Remodeling Galery

Our projects encompas a wide variety of scopes and styles. Below are featured a few pictures of our work. Enjoy!

The majority of remodeling projects are done to gain living space. This can be done by going outside of the extisting footprint or bumping out which generally means adding foundation as well as floor space. However, in many cases, adding to the 1st floor of house is impractical or unnecessary,particularly when the desire is to gain private space such as a bedroom.
If the existing structure has an attached garage or 1 story family room addition, adding up can be the way to go.

Left and below: The room added over the long family room/garage wing not only increased the interior space but added porportion and intrest to the exterior appearance of the house.

Left and below: Here multiple rooms were added. The window arrangement makes for a more dramatic exterior appearance. If you haven't already guessed, the front room has a cathedral ceiling under the reverse gable over the curved window. Our favorite comment about this bump-up is, "it looks like it's always been there". Because we roofed the entire house as part of the project, there is virtually no transition between the new and the old parts of the house.

Adding out is still one of the most popular ways to aquire more living space. Footprint additions come in many forms. Take a look at a few examples below.

Left and below: A Deck gives way to a 3 season room. The deck frame, still in good condition was added to and used as the frame for the new addition.

Left and below: Occasionaly, the need is for a great amount of space. The main house in the next set of pictures stopped at the break of the 2 roof lines (unfortunately we don't have "before photos"). Originally there was a 2 car garage in the where the addition stands. The garage was demolished and the 968 sq. ft. addition with a garage below and full length porch was constructed. As part of the job we resided the the entire structure. Pictures 1 and 2 were taken during construction. The interior (not pictured) features a sunken living room downstairs.

Left and below: Decks have always been popular. Sometimes an existing deck can be changed to fit new conditions or needs. Here we expanded the existing deck to fit a recently installed pool. The decking, railing. and trim material is Trex composite. A pair of gray deck boards was installed at the transition of the 2 decks to make people aware of the step down.