Hi, I live in a v old cottage which is lovely on the inside, but a real ugly duckling on the outside.
I need to change the windows (hopefully wooden in the vague style of the attached picture) but I also have such a bugbear with the porch. Here are my thoughts: it needs a different roof - one in more of an apex style, so generally prettier and more cottagey. it has doors on either side of the porch. I can change the doors themselves, but the layout has to stay the same (eg I can't put a door on the front of the porch). To my mind the front porch window is the wrong size - it needs to be longer (and therefore start lower down the porch). The bottom of the window would then be lower than the house windows. In my head that will look fine, but I can't find any examples of this look anywhere online, which makes me worry that actually it wouldn't look good.
Is the porch itself just too wide for the cottage? Do I need to knock down and start again...make it slightly narrower?
The garage in real life is more of an eyesore and obscures the house more than the pic suggests. I could shorten this by 1m and would then would also create a parking space in front of the house (currently I have no parking).
I can also of course get handy with a paint brush. I wondered if it would look better all white (including the stone) as the the lovely mullions would show and I'd have nice green/grey/blue painted windows
I have a few thousand to spend on this. Advice and suggestions appreciated.
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Please help me re-design the front of my house (pics included)
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Kitsmummy · 24/03/2016 10:59
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