Hope the luxury of designing a porch is yours, not a previous owner.
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1. Plenty of electrical outlets. Every wall should have 1 or more electrical outlets. Enough electrical outlets to disturb your electrician. Never, in my experience, does an electrician understand this. (Nor spouse.)
2. Place can lights, below, away from fan blades. Who wants haunted house strobe lights?
3. Do not use off-the-shelf lattice. Lattice, below, is special order, a bit thicker wood, looks custom, costs minimally more.
4. Detail the walls & ceiling.
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5. Choose colors that flow from your interiors inside the covered porch & colors that flow from your home's exterior to the outside of your covered porch.
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At jobsite yesterday we 'vision quested' furniture to source/buy/reuse/place, art to hang, tv, etc.
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Yes, it was fun.
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This porch has done something quite special. It has given her a new house. It began as a deck 1/2 the size of the new covered porch. A never used deck.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Award winning speaker, hire me for your group, local/out-of-state.
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Books by Tara Dillard, Amazon
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Tara Dillard & Associates Design: farm to city pied-a-terre.
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Construction by Award Winning:
Shaefer Heard Construction, licensed home-builder, renovation - new construction. Heard's Landscaping a unit of SHC. 3 decades of service.
3 comments:
Good list, these are simply common sense design elements that get over looked so often.
Hi Tara, I so agree on your comments. I do however prefer to use PVC lattice……I find it easier to install, and especially it's much longer lasting. I am almost always a fan of wood, but I find the way the wood lattice is put together just does not hold up long term. It holds a good paint job forever. I personally want less outdoor maintenance so I can spend more tie gardening!
Yes - detailed finishes, and plenty of outlets! And the need to be involved in all construction work, not just the plan.
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