Front Porch design Help Please
We are in the process of renovating our Edwardian semi-detached house which currently has two front doors!
As you look at the property, there is the original front door and then the previous owners built a side extension and included a separate entrance. The second entrance is actually very practical, as it leads into our boot room and means that dirty wet dogs, muddy wellies, pushchairs etc can all enter without having to come through our main hallway.
So basically we want to keep the two doors but hide the second one. We would also like a large covered porch for practicality (we are very outdoorsy and having an undercover area to take off boots etc is all very appealing.
You will see on the pictures that we are thinking of building a half height wall all the way across to connect with the neighbours wall and doing this in white render to match the front of the house. Three vertical pillars in black painted timber and then at the moment we are thinking a flat roof (which I’ve drawn in blue) at the same height as the lowest point of the other bits of original roof.
Is there a better design? Will this look in keeping with the front of the house?
All ideas and suggestions very welcome!!!
Comments (8)
- 4 years ago
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PRO4 years ago- 4 years ago
Thanks for the comments and suggestions.
Definitely want to keep the two doors- we have a beautifully tiled floor and are in the process of renovating the hallway, so that it is the main guest entrance through the original door. The new door leads into a bootroom for coats, muddy dogs and boots, with the far end as a laundry area and is therefore definitely not an entrance I would want visitors using.
If we remove the old porch we will then have to repair the render on the front of the house, which we would prefer not to do.
I am very open to using and paying for design services- we have used an interior designer for the inside of the house, but she is currently away on holiday and booked out for a while and we have quite a tight and unexpected deadline with the builder if we want this done this year and before winter.
This is the bootroom entrance (bench not yet painted and room clearly not yet finished from a styling perspective ) so you can see that it is not a suitable main entrance.
Main hallway is plastered but waiting to be painted / decorated along with stairs and landing.
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