Laguna Niguel, California Room Addition
Orange County Loft Addition with Dormer

Quick video explaining the basics of a specialty contracting service sometimes referred to as a loft addition and it's not just about lofts...

Inside Additions?
These types of additions are known as "inside additions". It is almost a tongue in cheek or an oxy moron phrase to call it an inside addition. Aren't room additions suppose to be outside and inside jobs are known as remodels. That is usually the case.  In many different cities where these high ceiling conversions are not a routine check in the building department, the plan checkers sometimes scratch their heads. "Where is your sediment control plan?" asked one building official. "We don't need one", I replied. He said "Oh yes you do!" After I showed him that this room addition does not change the footprint of the home and does not involve moving dirt he finally understood that we don't need a sandbag plan to control sediment.

Loft additions, whether designed to be an open mezzanine or an enclosed bedroom, home office or the like, are very unique. The structure is within the existing home.

Request more information from an expert architectural design, engineer consultant and general contracting team. The consultation is free and your imagination will likely get stirred up.

Valencia, Room Addition
High ceiling conversion in Los Angeles County

This room addition yielded a new bonus room and a new bedroom.  Watch the transitions from before and after shots blended into a timelapse like fashion.

Expert architectural blending and structural retrofitting by the designers and engineers at TRULOFT by TRUPLANS INC.  Room addition construction by TRUADDITIONS CORP.

Get a free estimate from the experts at TRULOFT / TRUADDITIONS. We cover the entire state of California.

Santa Clarita, California Room Addition
Los Angeles County Loft Addition (high ceiling conversion)

A brief video clip showing before and after views from the same perspective. This is a high ceiling conversion into a new room addition by a licensed general contractor specialist.

TRULOFT design  https://www.truplans.net/loft_additions.html
TRUADDITIONS construction

High ceiling conversions in California
Loft Addition Transition Video

Featuring Truloft designs, construction by Truadditions Corp and CA Loft.  A visual explanation of what a high ceiling conversion looks like when blended into a home. 

Sometimes referred to as infill additions, loft additions and/or mezzanine additions, these high ceiling conversions can be designed and built into just about any kind of new room. Bedrooms, bathrooms, bonus rooms, home theaters, exercise rooms, a home office or theater.

To achieve these results an expert level or experienced craftsmanship is required specifically in this unique "inside addition" trade. It's a niche business and TRULOFT has developed the largest network of qualified licensed contractors that can make this happen.

Get a quote for doing the design and engineering plans and/or construction

Brief video showing before and after transitions.
Aliso Viejo, California Loft Addition
Orange County Loft Additions

Laguna Niguel Loft Addition
Orange County Room Additions
​Loft Design Architect and Engineer

Quick Time Lapse of Loft Addition in Laguna Niguel
Crest De Ville tract. Best general contractor company.
A brief video clip showing before and after views from the same perspective. This is a high ceiling conversion into a new room addition.
TRULOFT design  https://www.truplans.net/loft_additions.html
TRUADDITIONS construction

Quick Room Addition Timelapse
Loft Additiuon in Long Beach, California
Los Angeles County Room Addition

Before and After transitions from the same perspective. This is a high ceiling converted into a new room addition, a bonus room used as an exercise/workout room.

Quick Loft Addition Timelapse in Dove Canyon, California
Orange County Loft Additions

A brief video showing before and after transitions of a high ceiling conversion in Orange County, California.

Aliso Viejo Room Addition
High Ceiling Conversion - Before and After Transitions
​Orange County Loft Company

View before and after perspectives from the same perspective above and below. 

BEFORE AND AFTER TRANSITIONS
​Short video showing before and after transitions of new room addition in Anaheim Hills, California. This is a high ceiling conversion to a new room. 

Corona, California
Riverside County High Ceiling Conversion

BEFORE AND AFTER transitions. Quick timelapse video.

San Diego, California
High Ceiling Conversion into New Open Loft and Bedroom Addition

Short video clip. A quick before and after transition video showing both first floor and second floor conversions.

​Designed by TRULOFT design / Built by CA LOFT construction

Short Video Clip / Time Lapse / Before and After
High Ceiling Conversion in Aliso Viejo, California
​Orange County Loft Additions

Escondido, California
San Diego Loft Addition

​Quick video clip showing before and after transition from the same viewing angle. The high ceiling over the living room and dining room were converted into a new bedroom and open loft addition.

Loft Addition Design by TRULOFT
High Ceiling Conversion Contractor CA LOFT

Huntington Beach Loft Additions
​Orange County High Ceiling Conversion

Here is a unique project that is just hitting the drawing board. The TRULOFT design team is planning to remove the existing loft, redesign it, and rebuild a larger new mezzanine structure. This one has some unique due process steps to be verified.

Please come back to see how this one turns out.

High Ceiling Conversion in Encinitas
San Diego County Loft Addition

This new open loft addition may be slightly smaller than most high ceiling conversions, but watch what we do with it. Currently in design process, this space is being built within the vaulted ceiling and the high box ceiling over the entry and the living room of this Encinitas home.

Come back to see how TRULOFT (design) and CALOFT (construction) team up to create functional space in this unique interior room addition.

Escondido, California
San Diego Loft Addition Experts

Coffered ceilings also known as tray ceilings are excellent options to add to any new loft addition. High ceiling conversion construction projects allow the new floor system to be framed with a standard ceiling height or you can request a coffer.

This new mezzanine and bedroom addition in San Diego added the coffer option.  It is engineered so that the entire ceiling is matching the height of the existing ceiling within the home. However, the new engineered floor system results in the center of the coffer being even higher by four to six inches on average.

Obviously, a good trim and paint color selection can make your new coffer ceiling pop, a custom feature that will feature the room below the new loft.

Encinitas, California
Room Addition General Contractor
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Southern California General Contractor
Dormer Room Additions
​by Chris Doering

Ideally, when we are looking to convert a high ceiling into a new room, we are looking for a two-story home with a high volume or flat second story ceiling. However, many homes in Northern and Southern California built in the 1980's and 1990's have a sloping ceiling where one side of the room is higher than the other. These are called vaulted ceilings and the slope down to different levels. See the example below.

Although this space can be converted into a new room, the low side of the room will be not functional for living space. This home is the perfect candidate for what we call a vaulted ceiling conversion with a dormer addition.

A dormer addition is a small area of the ceiling/roof that is raised up to provide a full height ceiling on the second floor only for a portion of the room. It is used to extend the full height ceiling space above and commonly to provide space to install a new second story window. We then design the remaining lower areas of the second floor space and assign it to closet or storage space.

​Here's another picture of the ceiling below BEFORE the dormer addition.

BELOW IS THE AFTER SHOT of the new ceiling line below

BELOW IS THE NEW DORMER BEDROOM ADDITION w/BATHROOM

Above: Notice that the dormer area (full height ceiling) is only for the majority of the bedroom width. The lower space remains and is used as a furniture niche and closet/storage space accessible from the new bathroom side.

Dormer room additions in vaulted ceilings requires a specialist general contractor. It is a great way to save tens of thousands in construction costs instead of doing a tradition full two-story addition.

Get a dormer addition quote from a general contractor that specializes in loft and mezzanine additions as well as dormer rooms within in vaulted ceilings. 

Santa Clarita Loft/ High ceiling conversions
Los Angeles County Loft Additions
Loft Addition Tract Research
​by Jorge De Leon

What are loftable homes? Loftable homes are houses in which contain a very high and open space that gets converted into an additional room or a room in which you can use for your own use. Houses aren't always loftable, and to the average eye one may not be able to tell what is and what isn't. To be able to find loftable houses you must be trained to find little details and know what it is you need to be looking for. Tracts in the Santa Clarita area are what the team here at TRUPLANS like to call Green and blue zones. Green zones would be the areas in which consist of 95% or more of the houses that are loftable or contain a high ceiling which then can be converted into a mezzanine or a loft addition.  Blue zones are what are consisting of 60-90% loftable homes.

Many homeowners don't realize that they can receive what is known as an "inside addition" then never getting that desired extra room or space. If you aren't sure if your home is loftable or has a high ceiling please contact our TRULOFT team at TRUPLANS Inc.

Huntington Beach Open Loft
Orange County Loft Additions
Loft Addition Stair and Balcony Railing

If you're considering a loft or mezzanine bonus room addition there is a good chance you will be faced with the decision to add, modify or replace your stair and balcony railing. It is a common feature related to the high ceiling conversion type of remodel.

Loft addition railing can really keep the space open in an area that you are planning to enclose. On the other hand a combination of open railing pictured above and a low wall can offer the open feel while hiding the furniture (or toys) behind it. 

This low wall was capped with a glass topper, or cap. The open railing are horizontal steel bars instead of cable. Where cable railing has a risk of losing tension over time, steel bar balustrades are longer lasting and don't lose tension.

Open wood treads, painted white risers, with wood newel posts, wood hand rail and steel bar balustrade.

Aliso Viejo, California
Orange County Loft Addition

High ceiling home in Aliso Viejo gets a loft addition makeover. The big airy wasted space over the entry, living room and dining room was converted in this Orange County home to a new room addition. We designed and built it into a new open mezzanine bonus room with a home office over the entryway over the first floor. 

Often times these loft additions become one giant toy box allowing for better household management of toys and crafts. Here's a few before, 3D and after shots. See the full series of room addition photos in our TRULOFT photo gallery.

Get a loft addition quote from the Aliso Viejo Loft Addition Experts!

Loft Addition Orange County, California
​Laguna Niguel Loft Addition

High ceiling conversion in Laguna Niguel with vaulted ceiling is getting more than just a loft. The roof is being raised over a portion of the loft to create a dormer addition. This technique gives more headroom above and the ability to add a new egress (bedroom) window. 

This particular room addition has been designed for a new bedroom with an on-suite bathroom and storage space. The storage space is literally over the front entry way below. The floor system in that space has been raised to create a higher tray ceiling (coffer) to remain over the entryway. 

This project came to us as an over-sized two story addition with plans already in the city. We were able to save the homeowner several hundred thousand dollars by designing the new space as a gable dormer addition. 

BEFORE - to simply add a loft addition with the vaulted ceiling would not allow for a new bedroom window. The roof will be raised for the width of the bedroom walls only. This is the technique we call, dormer addition.

Coffered ceiling over the front entry way.

Gable roof facing left side with new window at second floor level.

Glendale, California
High Ceiling Conversion Experts

  Greetings, I'm Chris Doering, owner CEO of TRUPLANS INC. I was never one to want the spot light. I've always been a "behind the scenes" kind of guy. My background is restaurant management first as a Benihana manager and then a marketing consultant in the restaurant industry.

  In 2004 I made the switch to loft additions after being asked by a family friend to help him build his construction brand. After he retired the workers asked if I could do the same for them, build their business. That is the beginning of an amazing journey in planning and construction services. The guys are so busy doing what they do best that I have to make the appearance to measure and design and get the plans permitted. So I'm usually the first one on the scene at your home.

  So, here's my mug shot above. I'm standing in a loft addition built by Aaron and Luis when TRULOFT began on its own. We converted a high ceiling into a beautiful open mezzanine bonus room. The project is located in the city of Glendale, California. 

  I am so very fortunate to be surrounded by the best of the best general contractors in our loft conversion industry. These are NOT employees of someone else's brand. The crews I design for and represent are actually all owners of their own corporations. Through TRUPLANS INC we created the TRULOFT expert design team and now service the whole state of California.