5 Important Covered Porch Design Elements

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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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.