Eyes on the Street

A Dutch Colonial with a gambrel roof, you say? Fantastic! In our view, there is no style of house better suited than a Dutch Colonial for a front porch addition. The main advantage is that the front elevation is typically flat, which makes for easy structural attachment and a full-depth porch across the width of the house. A central front entry door location also works well with column spacing, and the final benefit of this house style is the ease with which the new porch roof can be joined to the existing gambrel roof line. The roof angles work, the height of the eaves work, the symmetry of the upper level windows work, and the front door location works, it all works! ​ PHOTO: DLD