Adding front porch & garage. help!
We recently purchased this cute home & are wanting to give it a face lift with a small porch on the front. With it being a Dutch Hip style roof, how would you recommend building a small front porch off of the existing roof? We really want to frame the front door to give it an “elevated” appearance. Also, we plan on making the single car garage into an additional bedroom and building a new garage to the left of the house. We have been troubled with thinking of what would look best as far as tying that in goes. Help please and thank you!
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3 years ago- 3 years ago
Yes that’s exactly what I was thinking!! But we were hoping to turn the existing garage into the new master bed & bath. And possibly adding a covered carport to the left or possibly even building a new garage to the left of the driveway (about midway up so you’ll pull into the driveway and turn left into garage) and building back from there onto the house for more sq footage. That would make the house more of like an L shape if that makes sense. But I love your idea, honestly I love how the possibilities are endless! It’s a fairly small house so I’ve been trying to figure out how we can reconfigure things to make more space. Here’s some photos of the current layout & some of the ideas I’ve had for changing it up. You’ll have to forgive me, I’m kind of a rookie! Lol
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This is an idea for some curb appeal & elevating the roof pitch for a possible front porch (using photoshop)
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