Here’s the back corner of this home.
I often judge a home’s design by how the most neglected viewing of the home appears to me.
Notice some of the details found back here… under the ladders you will see that the electric meter and gas supply have been enclosed in a nicely boxed attachment to the house… for a hundred dollars worth of labor and some scrap material left over from the job and these owners will never have to see those ugly utility features stuck on the side of their home.
Then there is the attic vent, created from an old window shutter found on site. Here we likely just saved that hundred dollars that it cost to build that meter base box and as a result we’ve got something more solid, more attractive, and we did the environment a favor by recycling.
Then there are the little returns on the corners of the roof. Just a small touch, but they really snazz a house up.
I had hoped to make this little addition out of stone… it would have been nice… and it wouldn’t have taken a lot of material… but the budget wasn’t there for it… there is always a budget that I struggle with it seems.
Originally posted 2015-06-14 10:31:00.