Do these dormers look appropriately spaced and sized?
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Comments (13)AK IS cold when it hits those temps, but in the Interior where I live, it's extremely dry with minimal wind so it feels different than other parts of the country do at those temps. Your body acclimates, we take certain cold weather precautions and for the most part, life goes on. I can't fathom 100+ degree temps with humidity in the summer...Naw...I'd be a blob of melted chocolate...LOL. The ones who deal with the high temps, crazy winds or ice storms are the ones who I think are amazing...After 47 years in New England and family which swelters through summers in the south, I'll stay here! AK's incredible summers are the medal Mother Nature awards us for enduring the winters...Now, if she could just award that medal a bit sooner...LOL...See MoreHave you added a dormer to create bathroom space?
Comments (3)In terms of the addition of usable square footage, it's difficult to say. What I can tell you is that we are gaining an 8x8 bathroom on one end of the upstairs "hall" and a walk-in closet on the other end, and neither of those was possible before. We are actually raising the entire roof on that side of the house in addition to the dormers so we are also eliminating the knee wall in the bedrooms. I anticipate we'll gain quite a bit of usable space there as well. The scope of the project is pretty vast. In a nutshell we are taking the roof off the east side of the house and raising it, adding in the shed dormers, adding windows in the bedrooms in the shed dormer, adding the bathroom (which I would say is medium to upscale in terms of finishes as we're doing tile and a frameless glass shower), reshingling the entire roof, adding the deck and pergola and adding a sliding door to access the deck. The estimates we received ranged from $50,000 to $130,000. Once we got a little deeper into the inner workings of how our house is put together and what we need to do in terms of structure, it looks like we'll end up spending in the range of $85K. (Ick ... I've not typed that number before. That makes it a bit too real for my tastes). We also live in an area that seems to be on the higher end in terms of building expenses and I have no idea why. The roof, for instance, is not going to be anything special (30-year asphalt shingles) and accounts for about $18,000 of the budget. This is a project that started out of necessity. Existing dormers (you can see one peeking out in the existing house photo) were installed improperly and never insulated properly. After having insulation and roofing experts come out, we determined that the only way to really FIX the problem (which involves shoveling the roof when it snows, going up on a ladder to break up ice dams every time its done snowing and occasional leaking) was to remove the dormers all together. Of course we also needed to reshingle the roof. And as long as we're doing that .... and well, you know how it goes. Sort of takes on a life of its own....See MoreElevation Question - front dormer(s).
Comments (0)I'm working towards building a ~2500sf 1/2 storey 'cape cod/colonial/shingle style' inspired home in a neighborhood of similarly sized homes with cedar shakes and a min. roof pitch of 9:12 (as per covenants). For what it's worth, the neighboring homes have varying style influences. The footprint of the house is basically square (~36x34 sf), plus an enclosed breezeway to a garage. The front elevation has 2-4 steps up to the porch. The back has shed dormer to take advantage of the view from the Master Bed/Bath. The dilemma is with the front dormer options. Here is the "very preliminary" interior of the 2nd storey (closet size dependent on dormer sizes). With most nantucket/shed/gabled dormer options I've seen (and like) there is an odd number of windows, with the middle window centered over the front door. Is there a way to balance the windows between the 2 rooms, while maximizing interior space? I do like the walk-in closets on the side walls (although it does take away a south facing window on the left). Could a nantucket dormer (my favorite) work with 2 bedrooms? My thoughts: 1) forgo the 36' porch for a smaller covered entry way with it's own gabled roof, flanked by the bdrm dormers on each side. 2) Move the closets to the middle. Make them small walk-ins, and put a single window in the front closet. 3) Say g'bye to the beautiful 1/2 stories I love, and go for a more simple 2-storey. Opinions?...See MoreWhy are dormers/false gables looked at negatively?
Comments (85)I think I would have responded to your friend in saying, It isn't wrong of them to be after a specific look. If adding an embellishment to the exterior of their home which serves no purpose makes them happy then so be it. Just don't call it good design, or design period. A false dormer is not a design element, it's attempting to compensate for a lack thereof. Volumes have been written on this subject. I think the most simple and thoughtful explanation is about 450 years old and can be summarized by reading the first page, in the first chapter, in the first book of The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio. "That work therefore cannot be called perfect, which should be useful and not durable, or durable and not useful, or having both these should be without beauty." "Beauty will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts" -Palladio...See Morecpartist
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