Under the Porch~

Okay so a few posts ago I mentioned the Root Cellar idea under the porch. Well I have full support of the idea from Einy so that's a plus. Secondly I went spelunking for ideas on setting up the underside of the porch so here are some of my findings. It's going to hold the food on one half and the firewood on the other for the woodburner.

Mind you the underside of the Porch isn't THIS big but it is very
long and wide enough to probably hold a family of 3-4's winter food
supplies and then some.

 I'll posts pictures of UNDER the PORCH when I get a good sunny day and some light down there. The word Dark doesn't even describe the black hole that is there.

I'm also seeking out idea's of what to do for the Porch on the house itself. I thought of several structual idea's but I don't want a porch that will overwhelm the house nor do I want one that looks "thrown up" and "not to scale". The Porch is meant to be welcoming for guests and visitors. The Front door is going to be moved to the far rightside of the Porch and be just slightly wider than the average 36" door. I also want to do the decorating painted rug to the cement as long as it won't detract from the porch itself. This pergola is one of the design ideas I thought of having as the Front Porch Roof and have a trained Wisteria growing up over it. (don't need it tearing into the gutters or house siding)

Below are a bunch of Porches that I liked. While I know that home looks more Cape Cod I didn't fancy thier porch designs with keeping to period. So I went back a little further towards the 1900's and late 1800's and I also jumped ahead to today'd modern porch look to see if anything would fit the homes front. A house is like a person; the porch is its face and what you do to it is the make up. Too much make-up it looks bad and too little makes it look plain.

Very pretty colors, Loved the curved door and sidelights not to mention the
opulant header design over the front door with the columns that continue along the porch.

Our home can be seen from the next street down. You can look up through an
empty lot and boom, there she is (will get a picture of that too once the dumpster is gone)
I thought this would be a very pretty way of displaying the house number from that street
should anyone be looking for us. Not to mention the Numbers are in 1920's Font. Which is
techincally the same era of the house.

I liked the bevled underside and how it looks like they painted
the slat boards in copper paint to give is a metallic glow. I don't know
if this look would be proper for the porch though as it's much longer than this.

Short and simple right over top of the door. I would actually love to have
this over the basement or a side door since if it was on the front it may
make the porch look like an over plucked eyebrow.

Ah yes gingerbreading for the home. Make it the same length of the porch
then I got to thinking of it being just a little too much for the simple front.
I think it's pretty but it just may be too "to period" for the home. 

Again more gingerbread this time with a to period paint scheme.

Once again the placement of the numbers caught my eye
I thought I could do the same thing to the side of the house
where when you pull in the driveway you can see the house number
as well.

We're going to have a steel roof on the house hence why I chose
this particular porch. Not to mention we won't be walking up to the
house from the front, like this one is, but from the left side.

This was taken from another blog I had found and didn't save the link
(apologies to owner of picture) It's a southern porch and the owner was
tesing out paint schemes for the siding. Personally I'm really liking this porch the best. 

Another porch that was too early period, but I fancied it and
decided to show it anways. :) 

I liked the colors and the vertical, I think it's called Baten
siding. Imagine this with a steel copper painted roof.



And aren't these colors and siding of the house just Pretty!?!
I don't really care much for the gray paint on the window though but
it does tone down the white that would be in the area.



I liked the black door and the porch posts, the greenery just makes it pop.