Pitched garage roof and screen porch help please!
ana474
6 years ago
I am closing on this house next month. I love the neighborhood, the yard, the inner bones of the house, BUT this sore thumb of a pitched roof. The screened in porch. I just need advice on what to do so that I can actually see my front door front the street rather than a screen porch, but this pitched garage roof??? My inside style is Hollywood Regency and I am not quite sure how to make the outside feel the same way or how I can just make it feel more elegant and less Brady Bunch 1970's? The house is built in 1974 and it is obvious lol. The roof has another 10 years of life on it so I really did not want to go through major structural change if I can avoid it.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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decoenthusiaste
6 years ago
ana474
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoRelated Discussions
Screened Porch off great room dilemma... opinions please!
Comments (22)Hey! We have a covered terrace off of our family room. It faces east. I was petrified of the room being dark, so our builder suggested skylights even though he thought it would be fine without them. We had them installed, and I do think they make the porch more "sunshiny." :) However, I think several other factors contribute to our kitchen, breakfast room, great room being light-filled much moreso than the skylights. First, even though our ceiling in the kitchen/great room is a standard 10' ceiling (no vault) the foyer which leads into the family is 2 story. It has a large window at the top, and our double front doors are 3/4 glass. Sunlight pours into the great room in the afternoon from them. Also, the study and formal dining room have cased openings that open into the back of the house. Finally, we have large windows in the breakfast room, kitchen, and my little office. These are south facing windows (and west, my office has windows on 2 walls.) plus, 3 glass doors to terrace. I think, looking at your plan, you'd be ok. Personally, I'd move that fireplace out of that corner and onto that left wall, then put in another set of doors or windows, but that is just a balance thing for me, probably not necessary for light. If you do get skylights, we haven't had any problem with them. The window cleaning company we use just charges them as another window. We could also easily access them ourselves from upstairs windows onto the porch roof. They really weren't that expensive, maybe $600 each? (or total, I can't remember, we have 2.) here are some pics: Back of house, showing terrace and roof Here is one skylight. Oh, and we painted the tongue and groove ceiling blue, which helps, too....See MorePlease help us get the garage details right
Comments (24)Oaktown, I now see (for the first time) that your house does have a vocabulary of a shed roof over first floor elements and a gable at each end of the house, containing second floor occupied space. For some reason this wasn't as clear to me on your first illustration. The effect on the garage, however, seems to be too small and "toy-like" to my eye, based on what I can see in the last illustration. Just my take on the last illustration. What do you think, based on all three illustrated alternatives for the garage? I do like Ramsey's work and her garage, on your link above, may work fine to resolve all of the design issues as best as possible. I understand your concern for the connecting breezeway. Could you rotate your illustration and show us a view of it, as it connects house and garage. It would help to actually see it, rather than trying to visualize it. Your design is progressing nicely and you will soon have a wonderful plan to build--congratulations!...See MoreScreened in porch over garage
Comments (3)The roof top deck is a snap,framework with fall to the outside,plywood over the frame,torchdown roof over the plywood with all needed flashing,acq stringers lay in the direction of the fall,screw the decking to the stringers not past the stringers into the roof. The support for the porch can be done in a lot of ways but it cant land on the decking. John...See MorePlease help us pick a roof for our Southern porch!
Comments (13)start with some idea books about what exteriors you like. come back here and show us. Your pictures will allow us to help you speak the language and verbalize what you are trying to achieve. Your current elevation sketch, as noted, isn't southern really at all - it looks like the builder has a book of plans and he's showing the elevation options and asking you to 'pick one'. I suspect that his architect is a designer, and will make minor modifications to existing plans that get built over and over. Find what you like, then compare to where you are now and see if you CAN get to where you want or need to regroup....See Moreana474
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoAh I like this. Getting rid of the orange helps a ton! I still feel as if that white wall is in my face, but I will start hunting for really large decor for that wall. The roof has 10 years left and is a clay tile roof, so no it's not being replaced. You can paint these roofs. This is a before and after. I will have to grab a better photo of the screened in porch.
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