Porch Design

Porches provide transition space from indoors to outdoors.  Protected from sun, rain and insects but open to fresh air, a porch is an outdoor room where you can escape your electronic devices if you wish. It can be a special place to enjoy a book or...

Are you looking to add curb appeal to your home? You probably love the idea of expanding your living space or providing more room for entertaining, and stretching out on a fully renovated porch. The word “porch” comes to us from the Latin word...

Considering Porch Design -or- How the Greeks Invented Outdoor Living Are you looking to add curb appeal to your home? You'll probably like the idea of expanding your living space and gaining extra room for entertaining or stretching out on a fully...

Something Is Missing Curb appeal. You  know it when you see it because you feel it. But, what is it exactly? 

When we talk about the fine points of home additions we tend to make it all about the designers.  In fact, a design plan is just the beginning.  An enormous amount of thought and skill is required to put what is on the page into the build.  

First of all it isn't "only" a porch.  In custom renovation there is no "only" anything.  It is all about details--studiously conceived and finely crafted details.  All those aesthetic accents you admire when you browse through a home design magazine?...

  Most often prospective clients will say “we want an addition that doesn’t look like and addition.”   They want home additions to "respect the architectural character of our house.”  We can do that.  We’ve done that.  Many times.  Actually, it’s easy...

In an earlier post (The New Family Room Addition Is a Porch) we talked about how the luxury porch is gaining popularity in the category of home additions.  The example here is a large wrap around deck that is being converted into a luxury porch.

A new generation of porches is bringing indoor aesthetics and comfort to the great outdoors.  The screen porch has been steadily gaining the sort of popularity that the family room addition has enjoyed over the past ten years.   Typically, this sort...