I Posted this on the porches and decks forum and didn't get any response, so I figure that I'd post here.

I recently changed my side/rear entrance and I'm looking for comments, either bad or good. There still some minor things that need to be fixed.
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After

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Huge improvement!!

Yes.. that looks very nice, you did a great job.

It's beautiful! The porch roof looks like it was built with the house. The flowerbed really sets it off. Good job!

Very nice! It looks like it's always been there!

You did a lovely. I think it looks very nice, very tasteful. And very restrained.

If it were my house, later down the road I would think about adding in a third color besides the gray and white, maybe by painting the door and the light fixture.

Wonderful!

Yes -- I echo the thought that the transformation looks as if it had always been there .... a VERY great sign of good choices and the best of all results!

Very well done indeed! :)

Great job...looks so nice. Huge difference. Just an idea: perhaps continue the raised brick over and under the window for a narrow "stoop". A place for a chair or small bench.

I like it.

That is a marvelous change! Love the garden, too. Please post pictures come spring...did you plant any bulbs in there?

I like the idea of a bench, but maybe just placed in the garden area. I am not sure I would add the brick unless the roof of the porch extended over the window.

Congratulations on making your vision a reality!!!

It looks wonderful.

I love it! Looking at the before pics I couldn't visualize how you could make it better, but the change is dramatic. It now has character and charm. Well done.

Very beautiful and it looks great with your house. Nice job!

I wish I had the imagination and the ability to do something like that on my patio. Your transformation came out lovely and I know you must feel good seeing that where there was really nothing useful before. Plus, adding something that gives you a place to shelter from rain is a good thing. Ask my son in law who bought a new home with no overhang over the front entrance! (and he is in a subdivision where you cannot add to the front of your home.)

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I thought your before pics were simply your work in progress.
I think it's a fabulous, tasteful improvement. The landscaping brings the focus to this as a welcoming entrance, not a jammed in afterthought.

Lovely.
Poop on those who should have congratulated you on the Porches & Decks. I'm sure it's jealousy. [LOL]

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Beautiful, like it's always been there, which is the best compliment IMO. Very well done!

I think it looks really good! Very charming now and so much better than the before.

That really dresses up your formerly Plain Jane doorway. It's so elegant and inviting. What are the plants in the garden bed?

Wow..that looks great. I think a pretty pot to the right of the step up would look nice to add some color.

WOW!!!

I don't think it could've turned out any better! Great job!

Looks great ! Add some more ornamental things...bird bath and maybe an old chair with the seat out and a basket in place over- flowing with flowering/vining things come Spring...it would be fun to change out some portable things. You done good :) c

Look great! Big improvement. Have you thought about painting the downspout the same color as the house? With it painted white and the zig zag direction it takes, it draws my eye to it rather than your pretty new porch and entrance.
I've heard that the trim color should be things that you want to highlight (windows, roofline, etc) not things like downspouts.

Beautiful porch addition--it does look like it has always been there, and like it was supposed to be there. Bravo!

If I were to make any suggestion, it would be to paint the porch light black. I think adding a little black in with the gray and white will add a little snap.

But what you've got already is terrific.

You've done some great work there -- most impressive is making it so that the sun always shines on your entry! Good lighting means so much, and it clearly wasn't behaving in your 'before' pictures : )

WOW, nice job!

Thanks for all the positive comments. If any of you are wondering what my inspiration was, it was my from portico.The pictures is below before the house was restained:

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The front always didn't look like that either. The house is the house that I grew up in and when my parents passed away, I bought my sister and brother out. Attached is a picture of the house the way it was before I gutted and remodeled.Also, attached is the front of the house after the remodel, but before I had the portico put on.

The house before the gut and remodel:
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The house after the remodel, but before the portico:
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Again, thanks for all the positive comments.

A world of difference with that portico. Excellent job!

wow! love it! only one tweak to my eye....perhaps a downfacing light fixture in black??

It looks very well done.

If it were my house, I might have considered "porching" the whole corner - in other words, making the porch about 3 times that size and squaring off the corner. But you may not have wanted to shade over those nice double windows just to the right of your door.

It looks very nice. Maybe add something just to the right of your stoop on that narrow strip of brick. Some kind of concrete ornamentation or a pot of something?

But I don't really think it needs anything. Those new shrubs will grow, and I like the red one.

Good job! Like the portico additions, both of them.

You've made beautiful changes to your home! You're going to pat yourself on the back the next time the weather is drizzly when you can stand under cover bringing in groceries or you're having guests over and they don't have to stand at your front door getting wet. Plus they look fantastic and add a lot of character to your home.

Wow! I love a beautiful entry regardless of where it is. Great job!