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Front Porch

Ware Architecture Studio

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Porch - Boerne Traditional Modern Home

BCI Custom Homes

Porch in Boerne Home.
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Shaw Street

Jennifer Turner Architect

Nanne Springer Photography
Design ideas for a small contemporary front yard verandah in Toronto with concrete slab and an awning.

Lake Austin Overlook

CG&S Design-Build

photography by Tre Dunham 2018
Inspiration for a large contemporary backyard verandah in Austin with concrete slab and an awning.

Landscape Lighting

Lighting By Design

Traditional verandah in Richmond with concrete slab and an awning.

East 7th Street Residence

Rogers + Labarthe Architects

Front entry featuring aluminum and glass entry door. Photo Credit - F Carter Smith
This is an example of a mid-sized contemporary front yard verandah in Houston with concrete slab and an awning.

Tree House

Rogers Design Build

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House of Sound and Light

DeForest Architects

Exterior view of Front Porch and Entry. Photo credit: John Granen
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Silver Maple House

Lawrence and Gomez Architects

DENALI Multimedia
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Bellevue Ashlar Natural Thin Stone Veneer Front Porch

Quarry Mill

The Quarry Mill's Bellevue real thin stone veneer creates a stunning front porch entrance on this beautiful traditional style home. Bellevue stone’s light color ranges including white, tan, and bands of blue and red will add a balanced look to your natural stone veneer project. With random shaped edges and various sizes in the Bellevue stones, this stone is perfect for designing unique patterns on accent walls, fireplace surrounds, and backsplashes. Bellevue’s various stone shapes and sizes still allow for a balanced look of squared and random edges. Other projects like door trim and wrapping landscaping .elements with the stone are easy to plan with Bellevue’s various sizes. Bellevue’s whites, tans, and other minor color bands produce a natural look that will catch the eyes of passers-by and guests.

Alvarez Residence Staircase

Top Ciment USA

Felix Mizioznikov
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Deal Residence

Crome Architecture

This new 1,700 sf two-story single family residence for a young couple required a minimum of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, packaged to fit unobtrusively in an older low-key residential neighborhood. The house is located on a small non-conforming lot. In order to get the maximum out of this small footprint, we virtually eliminated areas such as hallways to capture as much living space. We made the house feel larger by giving the ground floor higher ceilings, provided ample natural lighting, captured elongated sight lines out of view windows, and used outdoor areas as extended living spaces. To help the building be a “good neighbor,” we set back the house on the lot to minimize visual volume, creating a friendly, social semi-public front porch. We designed with multiple step-back levels to create an intimacy in scale. The garage is on one level, the main house is on another higher level. The upper floor is set back even further to reduce visual impact. By designing a single car garage with exterior tandem parking, we minimized the amount of yard space taken up with parking. The landscaping and permeable cobblestone walkway up to the house serves double duty as part of the city required parking space. The final building solution incorporated a variety of significant cost saving features, including a floor plan that made the most of the natural topography of the site and allowed access to utilities’ crawl spaces. We avoided expensive excavation by using slab on grade at the ground floor. Retaining walls also doubled as building walls.

Covered Stoop Made with Steel Channels and Beam

Orren Pickell Building Group

Covered stoop was custom fabricated using steel channels and beams. Sommer USA front door is Pigeon Blue #5014 in a matte/textured finish with steel inserts.

Delz Warehouse

CONTENT Architecture

This project encompasses the renovation of two aging metal warehouses located on an acre just North of the 610 loop. The larger warehouse, previously an auto body shop, measures 6000 square feet and will contain a residence, art studio, and garage. A light well puncturing the middle of the main residence brightens the core of the deep building. The over-sized roof opening washes light down three masonry walls that define the light well and divide the public and private realms of the residence. The interior of the light well is conceived as a serene place of reflection while providing ample natural light into the Master Bedroom. Large windows infill the previous garage door openings and are shaded by a generous steel canopy as well as a new evergreen tree court to the west. Adjacent, a 1200 sf building is reconfigured for a guest or visiting artist residence and studio with a shared outdoor patio for entertaining. Photo by Peter Molick, Art by Karin Broker

Front stoop

John Joyce dba JOMXarchitecture

Design ideas for a large contemporary front yard verandah in Chicago with concrete slab and an awning.

Front Porch

Ware Architecture Studio

Large modern front yard verandah in Dallas with concrete slab and an awning.

Stunning Porch Cover Addition in Sycamore

Ken Spears Construction

Our team removed the existing awning and created a beautiful new wood awning with a concealed fastener metal roof so that our clients could enjoy the outdoors.