Exterior porch on historic Sullivan's Island home. Exposed rafters, custom-milled nostalgic stair railing, Marvin black clad windows, decorative lanterns and painted deck flooring.

Sand Hill Cove Cottage

Lisa Carlisle Architect

Bennington Heights Facade Renewal

Rowlands Associates Inc.

An new porch added seating for watching the kids, provides a relaxed and easy feel to the front entry experience.

Skagit Bay Waterfront, Camano Island WA

Dan Nelson, Designs Northwest Architects

Front porch.

Uniting a Blended Family Under 1 Roof

Brendan McHugh, Architect, Manasquan, NJ

This photo in a porch shows off the linear wood ceiling and the appeal of combining white with natural wood tones for a casual, beachy feel. The warm tone of the knotty wood beadboard ceiling is repeated in the copper flashing above the window trim on the exterior of the house. The crisp, white, horizontal siding and white columns contrast against the natural knotty pine beadboard ceiling for a warm casual feel. The siding is not lapped siding. Instead the outer surface of the siding is straight up and down without an angle. This simple profile along with the clean shadow line give the home a modern feel - thus updating it from the traditional coastal shingle style. The windows with their divided lites in a traditional grille pattern create a timeless style and allow light into the home. The white soffit is linear as well and also features linear slots to provide venting. All of these linear elements (of the trim, soffit, siding, ceiling) with the white create a very clean updated look to the exterior.

Isle of Palms Lowcountry Modern

Phillip Smith General Contractor, LLC

Eastview Before & After Exterior Renovation

nancekivell home planning & design

Enhancing a home’s exterior curb appeal doesn’t need to be a daunting task. With some simple design refinements and creative use of materials we transformed this tired 1950’s style colonial with second floor overhang into a classic east coast inspired gem. Design enhancements include the following: • Replaced damaged vinyl siding with new LP SmartSide, lap siding and trim • Added additional layers of trim board to give windows and trim additional dimension • Applied a multi-layered banding treatment to the base of the second-floor overhang to create better balance and separation between the two levels of the house • Extended the lower-level window boxes for visual interest and mass • Refined the entry porch by replacing the round columns with square appropriately scaled columns and trim detailing, removed the arched ceiling and increased the ceiling height to create a more expansive feel • Painted the exterior brick façade in the same exterior white to connect architectural components. A soft blue-green was used to accent the front entry and shutters • Carriage style doors replaced bland windowless aluminum doors • Larger scale lantern style lighting was used throughout the exterior

809 12th Street

Coastal Homes and Sunrooms

Beach House Renovation

Pamela Macior, LLC

Beautiful covered porch overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Large glass sliding doors drink in all the veiw

Porch Talk House

Richard Bubnowski Design LLC

Porch Detail

Coastal / Fox Island, WA

Ratcliffe Gagliano Architecture

Meant to Be(ach)

GLDESIGN

Front Porch

GMF+ASSOCIATES architects

This cozy coastal cottage plan provides a guest suite for weekend vacation rentals on the second floor of this little house. The guest suite has a private stair from the driveway to a rear entrance balcony. The two-story front porch looks onto a park that is adjacent to a marina village. It does a very profitable airbnb business in the Cape Charles resort community. The plans for this house design are available online at downhomeplans.com