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Great project! Expand the balcony over the entry or the entire house.

While a double decker porch, if practical for your needs, would work, you should consider how much sunlight would you lose if you added a double decker porch.

My inclination would be to add a deep (8' floor, preferably concrete outlined with the same brick as the house), single story shed roofed front porch all the way across the front of the house [and, preferably, (with a hip roof on the corner) wrapping the porch around the side of the home with the driveway], building a small gable into the shed roof only above the door (maybe 8' wide)

http://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/38e19d450f58d655_4-8460/traditional-porch.jpg

but extending that gable out a bit beyond the deep front porch in order to cover any front steps.

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