Planning Checklists
5 guides for the Raleigh-Durham Triangle homeowners, written and fact-checked by the Raleigh Home Projects Editorial Team.
Planning ChecklistsAdd On or Move? Running the Numbers in the TriangleYou like your street, your kids' school and your commute, but the house is a bedroom short, or a parent needs a first-floor suite. In the Triangle, where buying the next house up often means competing for limited inventory, a lot of famPlanning ChecklistsPlanning an Aging-in-Place Remodel in the TriangleMany Triangle homeowners plan to stay in the house they have, even as the stairs, the tub and the narrow hall bath get harder to use. Aging-in-place remodeling makes a house safer and easier to live in without making it look like a hospitalPlanning ChecklistsHOA Approval for Remodels in North CarolinaIn much of Cary, Apex, Holly Springs, Wake Forest, Morrisville and the newer parts of Raleigh and Durham, the first approval for an exterior project isn't the town's. It's the homeowners association's. Skipping it can mean fPlanning ChecklistsLead-Safe Renovation Rules for Pre-1978 NC HomesThousands of Triangle homes were built before 1978, when lead-based paint was banned for residential use. That includes nearly every house in Raleigh's and Durham's historic neighborhoods, in Chapel Hill's and Hillsborough'sPlanning ChecklistsNC Contractor Licenses: The $40,000 Line and TradesNorth Carolina licenses contractors through several separate boards, and the rules aren't the same for each trade. A builder who doesn't need a license for a $25,000 deck still can't legally wire the ceiling fan, and an HVAC com
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