Oh this was a fun one! We got a call for a porch remodel... And we sort of ran away with it... Here is the before....
The homeowner after purchasing the house painted the house grey.... Brick.... By... Brick.... Did I emphasize that enough? Blew my mind...
Ripped off the awful precast post and cheap guardrail....
Definitely an improvement! We were set up to take it away from there... We wanted a new porch foundation, what they had was an old wood frame that was wrapped with a trellis, and what looked like left over vinyl fencing on the ground... Eww... Also the original soffit, or the ceiling was a loud, overly vented aluminum.... It had to go...
So this was my design.... I wanted to keep it true to the original style and accentuate the scalloped shake gable ends by adding some board and batten. Some shaker panel posts. With a little extra detail to fit closer with some ornate posts they have in the home. Add some posts and a large header to the garage to provide balance and strength to the structure. And wrap the windows with a simple stile and apron.
And here is the after...
I'm in love.... It was hard to drive away from it at the end of the day...
When we removed the ceiling we found that they had dropped the ceiling for no known reason. We were able to lift the ceiling and really trim it out with a coffered tray ceiling. We did a three strep crown. We did a 3/4" flat piece, 4" crown, and then another 3/4" flat piece. It's in the details...
The posts we used a flat cap, cove mould, small shaker panel, pencil mould then a large shake ended with a cove mould and plinth block.
Oh that ceiling! That ceiling! I love!
You can't stop at a beautiful porch can you? So you see how we had to keep going. We trimmed out the windows to creat balance and added the board and batten to add some interest.
And they did.
As much as I loved the porch and gable ends... My favorite part was the garage. What was once a massive looming structure we trimmed and cut angles enough to make it look balanced and fit the rest of the house. By adding the board and batten we cut the steepness of the pitch. Making it not looks so giant.
Then we added the header to give the illusion of support. And that delicate pencil mould for more interest... Then double posts on either side. Love!
Especially in Utah the land of the overgrown, over pronounced, cheap garage it was so rewarding to design a garage with a lot of detail.
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