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ELEVATIONS - RIGHT OF HOUSE

Elevations, Right of  House, in PDF

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Right of House elevation surprises for its many parts. Nothing's crammed or shoe-horned; nothing overwhelms.  There's just a lot going on.  And it's interesting to look at.  Those complex rooflines all but openly celebrate this side of our house.

Tour: Front face elements on the far left are terminated by our high wall protecting the hidden garden. This garden area is a space in-between (Patterns of Home, Jacobson, et al.), with plenty of room for both flora, furniture, and other features - perhaps a decorative pool or fountain. We learn from this view that the hidden garden is designed for central viewing from the family room behind it and the dining room immediately to our right. The L2 dormer above the dining room alludes to earlier (fictional) construct in-keeping with the intriguing message and prescriptions of The New Old House by Russell Versaci. The low wall facing us at the garden border also assures us that there'll be even more eye candy past that wall when looking outward (essentially behind us).  Finally, the dining room gives way to a screened porch on the right and a snippet of the master suite from another vantage. The big dormer at the right side of Right of House comes as a real eye-catcher, offering way past a hint that this interior is quite specially arranged and more expansive than initially imagined.

In passing, we note, too, the coding overall and elevation specifications of both height of structural elements and particulars immediately over grade.