Our clients, Todd and Laura, wanted better curb appeal and sought to achieve it by transforming the front of their home with a new front porch. We accomplished this by changing the exterior design of the home from a faux-cape-cod style home to a relaxed, country ranch with a welcoming front porch. The front porch is particularly important because it balances the house and enhances the view as you approach the front entrance. Before the porch’s construction, the garage stuck out well beyond the main building’s facade creating an unbalanced look.
Curb Appeal Accomplished
The front of this home was set back a considerable distance from the front of the garage. The lack of a front porch caused the front door to feel inaccessibly recessed, and there was no occupiable space at the front of the home. After providing many different design iterations of the front porch, and weighing the pros and cons, the clients decided upon a shed roof with a new railing system and stone/wood columns. The addition of the front porch moved the front of the home forward, minimizing the look of the garage extrusion.
A Place To Sit With The Neighbors
To create additional depth in textures and colors, we replaced the existing garage door and front door with new wood-look doors. We carried the wood look over with the stained wood columns and dark rails (top and bottom) of the railing. To create continuity, the same stone used on the base of the columns continues onto the garage as well as on exterior kneewall of the rear 3-Season room. The masonry used in the construction of this porch is Thinstone with a Bedford Cap by Halquist Stone. The colors are 25% Maple Bluff Red and 75% Gray.
