Hipped roofed Colonial Revival houses with full width covered porches were a very popular house style from 1890 to 1915 and are often emulated today. This one seems to have a steeper than usual porch roof and short second floor height so the upper floor windows and the center Palladian window are crowded. Perhaps additional second story height would allow taller windows and a wider and taller Palladian window. A Palladian window is traditionally used as a strong dominant central feature above the entrance door. It should not be used if it is not large enough to fulfill that role. Space the paired windows 6" or more apart so they look more traditional instead of modern and on a tight budget. I would use a Colonial Revival door instead of the Victorian one shown. The porch supports appear to be simple posts. They should be "columns", in other words they should have a clearly identifiable base at the bottom, a round or square middle portion and a capital at the top. They don't have to be classical Greek or Roman but that would help. The corner boards should be a bit wider and the frieze board under the cornice should be taller. The cornice might protrude a bit more too. The shutters should be wider or omitted. I can't figure out why the garage-like wing doesn't show up on the right side elevation. If it is not attached to the house it should not appear in the front elevation. Why is the house so high off the ground? Why so few windows on that side of the house?

*heavy sigh* I used to have a nice business doing video work for companies like yours, til a bunch of people in various IT departments etc started saying they could put something together using iMovie/windows movie maker etc. Be prepared for lots of late nights and unpaid overtime. It's harder than you think. At the very least you need a decent, separate microphone, either a radio mike (most versatile) or hand-held. Otherwise you will discover your audience is mostly hearing air conditioning and the phone in the office next door, especially with quietly-spoken people. You will also discover you need lighting. The easiest way to do this is to buy one of those cheap halogen worklights at home depot or walmart, and bounce the light off a back wall or ceiling. DO NOT put it under any sort of fire detector/sprinkler sort of thing. Then you will discover you need a tripod. Still camera tripods don't work very well, because you can't easily pan with them, and they don't tell you if you're level or not. Even if you find a camera for the price you're looking at, I would seriously go back to whoever, and tell them it can't be done for the money. (You will want a second battery by the way) You will also need software for editing, and creating movies so they will run in Powerpoint. Embedding movies into powerpoint is not always as easy as you would think, especially when you are transferring the show to other computers. There IS free or semi-free software for editing etc but it will drive you literally *insane* if you are trying to do anything more than something very basic. People get spoiled by the plethora of quality images they are surrounded with, especially now digital effects look so natural. Don't be fooled, most of that 'simple' stuff has a lot of people behind the scenes working on it. Yes there are spotty teenagers working out of their mom's basement willing to undercut the pros and sometimes turn out quite good stuff, but they are willing to work for pizza. Then when everyone gets used to paying pizza prices, something goes wrong/kid has to do an extra shift at McDonalds/his mom grounds him, and there goes your deadline. Then people bemoan they can't find anyone decent, having killed off all the businesses who used to do it. There are also the legal ramifications. Yes, I know that you HAVE to use "eye of the tiger" at every sales presentation, but you know what? It's ILLEGAL to use material that is still under copyright (and most recorded stuff is, you can't assume otherwise) and if you think that doesn't apply to you, just run it past your legal department, especially if you work for a large company. The copyright police LOVE to go after big companies and they usually walk away with some big dollars. Like I say, don't get suckered into doing hours of unpaid overtime, even if you think this'll be your big break into show business (and you never know, then you'll be bemoaning people ripping off your hard-earned, too.) It's way more work than people think, and if you really don't take any of the steps I've suggested to make things look better (and you can do a lot with a cheap camera if you do it right) people will then complain things don't look or sound right. Then someone in marketing thinks some video should be on the website, and you get roped into that too. Then the big boss sees it, and thinks it's shite. Then your head rolls, on top of all that unpaid overtime. Bitter much? LOL. L

one of my good friends just got a new pc with windows 8, she called me pleading for help. The first thing I told her to do was go download Classic Shell, which she did while I was on the phone, it took about 2 minutes and she came back saying omg I have a start button again lol. It's a great addition if you are new to windows 8,makes a lot of things more familiar, nice for you while learning the new system. It gives you the option for it to look like xp, or vista and 7. here's a great video on exactly how to install and use it. Remember to watch carefully when installing things for those added items like toolbars, I think this one has some sort of ad, just avoid those or uncheck as needed. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=PujV6yPY5OI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPujV6yPY5OI Here is a link that might be useful: classic Shell free

Most counties require a witness to the wedding and that person also signs the official wedding certificate to be filed at the court house. Side note: In the eyes of the court, a pair is not considered legally married until the wedding certificate has been filed. While searching my family's history, I found 2 wedding dates for my grandmother; one date on the day of the ceremony and a second date two weeks later when it was filed. Before automobiles, Pastors often collected wedding papers and went to the court house maybe once or twice per month to file the wedding certificates. There was a hazard: If something happened to the Pastor in the interim and the papers never filed; That can cause problems at later times when probating an estate or other legal matters.