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Craftsmanified American Piedmont – Front Of House, Elevation
This started in a stock plans way more gussied than whassup now in interim designing to Craftsmanify an American Piedmont. From top to bottom –
Rooflines substantially simplified for the secondary roofs’ intersections with the primary, in the course of which a confusion of dormers is wiped out, along with a designwise unnecessary hip ridge, and the central dormer was reset and resized to belong and not burden (BTA notes a stream of overdone rooflines these days . . . complexity atop complexity communicates correctness; however, confection above dissuades focality)
Comment: In the contest twixt American Piedmont and American Craftsman, some hip roof profiles shall sustain.
Fleur-de-lislike timbered raking cornice caps
are added to front-facing gables
Stone is let to all four sides uninterrupted from finish grade to frieze, while rebutted-resquared shingle clad separate, L2 faces
Windows are of several sizes and severally related to horizontal planes, muntins on upper sashes only
Stone lintels predominate above board-and-batten lumbered shutters
Porch columns on Front Of House (and Back Of House) are square, stone pedestals below and in-sloped, wood-clad uppers
There remains a clear, 2-story presentation on Right Of House twixt L1 and L2; whereas, the Back of House sports a 2-story presentation of L0 and L1 with a well-proportioned clerestory dormer to daylight the deepest interiors of L1. . . yes, the Front Of House front-facing dormer is blind, since interiors' ceiling levels prohibit L2 habitability
Comment: Deeper home designs front-to-back, covered porches mostly on Front Of House and Back of House, largish spaces on the interiors – all conspire to darken up daylight on the L1 interiors particularly, and, sometimes even here and there on L2. There are ways to win or at least place or show in daylight design, if you’re willing to work with an open mind and assiduity [‘assiduousness’ is to ‘s’y’ for this old man]. (L0 has never been a serious contender for daylight past perimeter sourcing.)
Comment: Extensive design guidance in the Finishing Schedule, notably in trim packages, along with companion references by force of interiors' elevations supported the clients’ subsequent interests in an American Craftsman interiors design.
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