A new room off the back, the side, or wherever the lot allows — foundation, framing and utilities sized to match what's already there.
The part that separates a good addition from a problem one almost never shows on the surface. It's whether the new footing was poured to the same depth and bearing capacity as the original foundation, whether the new framing was tied into the existing structure the way an engineer specified rather than the way it was easiest to build, and whether the roofline was actually integrated instead of just butted up against the old one and flashed.
Utilities are the other part people underestimate. Extending electrical, plumbing or ductwork into a new room is not the same as running an extension cord — it means sizing the panel, the vent runs and the supply lines for the added load, not just the added square footage. A room addition that skips this ends up as a room nobody wants to use, because it's always ten degrees off from the rest of the house.
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