Redesigning a Porch
During the housing bust, my wife and I took a big risk and bought a dilapidated old Victorian house in Quincy. It was really more house than we knew what to do with, but under all that peeling lead paint, rotting porches and water stained wallpaper we both saw a beautiful old place well worth our efforts.
With our project beginning to near completion, we were starting to think about putting it on the market but we knew we still had to deal with the front face of the house. A previous owner had chopped off an old wrap around porch and turned it into a 3 season room with no regard for the architecture of the building. Upon tearing into the structure I quickly realized my suspicion that the 135-year-old porch was too rotten to try to save anything but the roofline. So that was my goal – to design a new porch that would preserve the original roof and still be true to the original character of the home.