Adding an enclosed porch to a ranch house?
Janet D
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How many people have added porches/sunrooms to older home?
Comments (3)We installed a functional, commercial lean-to greenhouse with plexiglass panels against one ell of our house. Put in a gas fireplace and it is heated in winter and used year round. It is 12 x24 and multifunctional now. We keep it heated in winter, at one time it was used as an office for my business, and forced into use as a place to overwinter nursery stock for propagating. Since my business has been phasing down and is now phased out we simply use it now as a great buffer zone against the elements. My back door and two other household doors remain open to it year round. I have a fountain in there and hang ferns in winter. It has brick floors and is a great transition room from our outdoor activities to inside activities.......home for coat racks, boots and animals who shoot out our back door without leashes, lol. Gets a good amount of solar gain and helps our heat bills too. We have a ventilator fan at its apex to pull out heat, have a shade cloth we can use in summer, and a storm door for the outside entrance, so we can screen in summer. I can't imagine not having it now and it's a lot handier than the creaky old back porch we pulled off. It's like having both functional outdoor and indoor space added....See Moreadding on to a ranch style home
Comments (10)oruboris believe me the sociological aspect does concern me more than the other. But I would not call my parents seniors they are both in their late 50's but my mom had a large stroke about 2 years or so after having heart valves replaced and repaired due to rheumatic fever as a child, and has had about 11 surgeries in the last 2-3 years mostly because part of her skull had to be removed for swelling with the initial stroke and when they put her skull back in it got infected and then she had to have a prosthesis placed. She is from a mental aspect very functional she reads and writes etc... My dad is disabled but has been so since I was a child. So both are fairly young still...dad needs help with mom because he is disabled and just not able to get up and down as much as she requires and still do everything else required to run a house. Also there are things she needs like being walked to see how much function she can get back that with everything else he does for her he is just not able. But he tells me that the loneliness is what is really getting him, because it is him and mom. We go by but we also have a house to run and I work full time and we live 30-40 minutes away. If it was next door no problem and mom has flower beds which neither are able to take care of anymore and she loves them, dad is not a house keeper and mom without help is completely bedfast, she requires at least a standby when getting up and down. So it is just to much for dad to handle and I just cant run two households and work full time. But you are correct in that they are not used to having 5 other people around even though our kids are older 14-21 and two are in college locally, and the middle one stays mostly at his dads. so obviously we don't go to bed at 8 or 9 pm like mom and dad does. The house now has as you come in the door a dining room, then kitchen to right then laundry room. Kitchen, dining, and living room are open and you step into the living room from the dining. Off to the right is a master bedroom and master bath and to the left is a bedroom, and a computer room slash bedroom with another bath in the middle. What we would do essentially is make the addition for us it would come off the end where the computer room/bedroom and bath are and the entrance in that area would be through the computer room so that there could be doors shut to muffle noises why mom and dad are trying to sleep. On the addition we be a entrance probably french doors just like any other house would have more than one entrance and there would be a den, master bedroom and master bath and then two large bedrooms upstairs. It would put us with a home with basically 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. But always good to have the extra room even on down the road, I'm convinced you never get your kids raised....See MoreAdding garage to ranch home
Comments (6)Do you know what your front set back requirements are for your county or your municipality? How about your side set backs? How large is the parcel and the planned garage? Do you want to attach it or have it detached? Do you have a survey that you can post to show easements? What size garage are you planning? I assume you are getting a building permit for the garage. Sorry for all the questions. It helps to have these answers to adequately answer your question. Are you building this yourself or using a GC?...See MoreAdding Front Porch and addition to small house with off center door
Comments (8)Thank you, GreenDesigns... The builder we are talking with got me in touch with a "Designer" from our local building supply store. They will do all the drawings and 3d renderings for us. The designer prefers a roof with gables, the builder said shed roof was easier and much more affordable. I was just looking for extra ideas. I am waiting on a visit from the two of them together here, to come up with a plan. I am hoping I can meet them with a clear vision, but maybe they will have a better plan!...See Morewoodrose
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