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Side Entrance Dilemma

last year

Hey everyone, we just bought a beautiful home that we want to update with a mid mod look on the exterior. Our biggest problem is that we have an entry that is on the side of the home because it is on a corner lot. We’d like to make the entry clear and a primary focus from the curb. Any ideas?

Apologies for the poor photos but this is all I have at the moment.

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Celery. Visualization, Rendering images

last year

or with more drama :-))

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ShadyWillowFarm
last year
Where do you park? Is that your mailbox around the corner or the neighbors? You have an obvious walk to the front door, but if people are parking around the corner, you need an obvious walk to direct them to the door. Which means pics of that area. 🙂 Which you don’t have, but we aren’t going anywhere. The house looks really nice, congratulations!!🎉🎊🍾
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Celery. Visualization, Rendering images
last year
Make it mid mod entrance
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Celery. Visualization, Rendering images
last year
or with some cedar insertions
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RL Relocation LLC
last year
can we see the front of the house, to me you need a more deliberate path to the front door. is your street number associated to that street or the one that runs in the front. Im also thinking fencing could "force" people in the right direction.
Tkoman
Original Author
last year
Thanks for all of your help! Great questions. Here is the front of the home apologies for the horrible angles. 😅
JDMCCL
last year
It looks like the area to the left of the driveway used to be the front door. Or is this a two unit home? It’s a little confusing looking.
Tkoman
Original Author
last year
The area in the center on the left is a mini patio. It is not a 2 unit but has a strange layout design to be sure.
Tkoman
Original Author
last year
Apologies I misread your comment @JDMCCL the area to the left is RV parking. Very typical in the neighborhood.

The fenced in area in the center is a mini patio. But for the purposes of this we don’t really have budget to move the front door.
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Debbi Washburn
last year
What about some sort of pergola over the front door and wider - almost creating a " front porch " .

I would also, over time, widen the walkway to make it more inviting to go around the corner
Sammie J
last year
What room do enter into from the mini-patio???
ShadyWillowFarm
last year
Mimic celery’s landscape design all the way around the corner to the driveway. Maybe widen the sidewalk at the driveway to make it more visible.
JDMCCL
last year
Ah this is so much easier to see on my computer than my phone1 I agree with ShadyWillowFarm. I love Celery's designs!
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RL Relocation LLC
last year
I would really consider fencing. How do you enter the house? Do you use that sidewalk?
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