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dundee33



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:10 pm    Post subject: House renovations Reply with quoteFind all posts by dundee33

I have just recently added and addition onto my home I am looking for help on figuring out what to put on the front of my house to separate the main floor from the upper story, off to the right side where you see the french doors we would like to build a deck and then incorporate something at the front to blend it all together, maybe by putting an eyebrow or something between the main floor door and window and the upper floor. I was looking for a program online so we could just put a picture of our house in there and then show different options. I'm wondering if there is such a program out there and if so what it is. Or if someone would have any suggestion on what we should do, some ideas on whether we should brick, use stone or stucco would be helpful as well.



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mx2
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quoteFind all posts by mx2

I don't think an eyebrow is appropriate nor that it would fit, to begin with. You need a high point and a low point and you seem to have maybe 12" to 24" max. I first thought about suggesting a band of some sort, a moulding/trim , perhaps of wood or stucco...but then was wondering what the style of the neighborhood was. Are you putting siding on the walls? But then I thought, whatever it is, I would prefer to see the balcony stop short of the front wall, maybe 12" to 24" back, and let the front wall be it's own facade, as it is now.

my two and a half cents.

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lekizz
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quoteFind all posts by lekizz

mx2 talks a lot of sense.

I notice that the top of the lower right window on the front facade is lower than the top of the left window. You could possibly incorporate an 'eyebrow' strip (Metal channel maybe, say 8-12 inches in depth, something that matches the material of the eaves) above the right hand window, whose left hand extent lines up with the left hand edge of the window above. If you are creating a balcony for your french windows, or a partially covered car port, that could be designed to coordinate with the eyebrow.

Of course, that would more complex and expensive than mx2's idea of letting the front facade speak for itself.
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