I’ll be designing and manging a restoration of this place. It has an ‘L’ shaped modern style porch off the kitchen wing that the new owners think is a comfortable size but they dislike the appearance because it doesn’t fit the more classic look of the home. It is also open to full view of the road so no privacy.
Everybody’s got an idea. Here’s mine,
I build a pergola over it with round columns and a railing with turned ballusters, possibly leaving part of the seat. I add a couple trellises for climbing roses to add a sembleance of privacy.
Downside is that an L pergola is somethingI’ve never seen so I’ve got a mental hitch in my gitalong
What’s your idea?
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I like that idea. Kindof like a Roman ruin, Ionic columns(I think that's what they're called)? And you can use some fast growing annual vines until the roses or whatever they choose gets big enough(try to stay away from Chinese/Japanese Wisteria or Trumpetvine, especially since Wisteria likes eating houses).
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good w/ketchup, cheese - especially applewood smoked gouda, a decent sized kosher/garlic pickle and let's not forget the 70% bittersweet Scharfenberger. Still working on the liquid refreshment.
Excellent idea, Plantlust, but I don't know about the Roman ruin thingy--Piffin needs to show us a close up of the trim on the existing porch--looks a bit Victorian to me--gotta coordinate with that. All those lovely pointy gables--gotta get that motif going somewhere to. Perhaps some treillage on the street side of the pergola with some angles that match the gables.
And of course you can do an L-shaped pergola, you just have to miter the corner somehow.Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. - Hal Borland
Agreed, it is probably Victorian. But, but, but didn't the Victorians start those folly things. And didn't they mix the heck out of styles when building?Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good w/ketchup, cheese - especially applewood smoked gouda, a decent sized kosher/garlic pickle and let's not forget the 70% bittersweet Scharfenberger. Still working on the liquid refreshment.
Great minds think alike. Good idea. A well -designed pergola always adds class to a place.
Not very builder like on my part, but have they considered a well placed hedge, or maybe just a couple of nicely sized trees? I'm probably to cheap, but even expensive landscape options might be cheaper than that beautiful redwood and black walnut pergola that you are going to build <G>. Sounds like a fun project, don't forget that we like after pictures to.
Dan
Hmmm...
Hedge for privacy and trees for shade.
I may run that by them and save all that painting work.
They already plan to remove some of the smaller plantings though so I might be fighting against personnal prejudices.Excellence is its own reward!
Go for pergola AND plants. Check out the Lust Defined-things Stacy needs to plant thread(or something like that) over the Fence. Guaranteed to make people slobber and drool or fervently wish for acreage(sigh).Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good w/ketchup, cheese - especially applewood smoked gouda, a decent sized kosher/garlic pickle and let's not forget the 70% bittersweet Scharfenberger. Still working on the liquid refreshment.
Do you have a copy of "A Field Guide to American Houses"? If so, check out pages 263-287. This house looks like a Queen Anne Victorian, cross-gabled roof style. There are many photographs of original similar style houses in the Guide that you could use for ideas. No pergolas, but most have some kind of wrap-around covered porch supported by columns, which would be very much in keeping with the house you're working on. The Guide describes this as "asymmetrical facade with partial or full-width porch which is usually one story high and extended along one or both walls." You could use the deck as the porch floor.
"A completed home is a listed home."
Thanks Lisa, I think I do have that unless it's loaned out.
There actually is a couple photos of the house from the twenties when there was a smaller porch with a canvas awning along the south side(where the steps come down)Excellence is its own reward!