Plant ID - some kind of PHILODENDRON
Jane B
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Blue Smurf house in need of some serious curb appeal.
Comments (33)As a landscape architect, the color of the house is less objectionable to me than the steps and railing. The style does not match the house and detracts even though it looks in good condition. Rip it out and install a more modern simple low key step and railing with clean landscape plantings for a simple but interesting setting. The landscape should be secondary and compliment your idiosyncratic home....See MoreWhat plants for screened porch (relatively shady)? Needs some green!
Comments (3)I don't know Chinese evergreen, but I'll look it up. I'd forgotten about philodendrons -- pothos and ivies are great ideas too. I fear my succulents wouldn't like the shade but I could try them. Thank you both...See MorePlant ID Please Vine Type
Comments (6)by the spiky one you mean the tall grass or the one dropping over side? Thanks for confirming ivy. I've got English Ivy inside and 2 types of pothos and a philodendron. can't wait to add this Swedish ivy. I love the look of freshness in my home and my plants are the reason I believe since we moved into a house I bought instead of landlords, her asthma has improved and I believe it's the real oxygen cause last landlord said to me one day. "you got to many plants, yuck, take them away." so I bought a house and now it's our to do it. my house is filled with beautiful air purified. anyways sorry ya'll. rabbling got to me lol. good day to everyone....See MoreIn desperate need of some curb appeal
Comments (93)It feels like the porch ceiling is being squashed by the building above. We either have to accentuate the main floor height or minimize the 2nd floor height, or both. I suggest having a pair of gables over the front porch, perhaps having the larger roof part, centering the roof over the porch, with another gable nested inside that centered over the steps. Stopping with the peak of the larger gable about 4"-6" below the upstairs window sill. Put a frieze board, 6" to 8" high, above the porch ceiling level, then the roof overhang. Change the direction of the siding within this gable to vertical. Continue this eave roof and frieze board on the left over the big window, matching the existing eave overhang from the roof above. This would make the 2nd floor look like the 2nd floor pokes thru a bungalow roof. like a dormer. You could continue the same idea down the left side of the house, as well as the right side as far as the porch. You could even have exposed rafter tails, albeit fake ones, spaced 24"c.c. Remove and replace the corner support with a turned column, Keep all your lower floor columns larger than the upstairs columns. We are trying to bring the eye of the viewer down, minimizing the 2nd floor. Put about 10" diameter 1/2 columns where the porch meets the walls, then 2 full columns, 1 at the corner and the other beside the stair, creating a "public access" and having the rest of the porch room for a chair or so. A short railing between the 2 columns, and from the corner back to the house will provide a little privacy. hope your front screen doors are right-hand hinge.... Above this roof provide a pair of 1/2 columns, 8" diameter or so, above the 1/2 columns of the porch below, and a 3/4 corner post, giving the impression that the 2nd story porch has been enclosed. A change of siding material here, like a shake look would work here. Doing this will remove the big blank space between the 2nd story windows and the porch ceiling below. I agree with planting something low and thick hiding the block foundation, topping but in height with the top of the porch....do so in front of the porch also Upstairs windows, try planted window boxes, something to bring the windows closer to the lower floor. If you do this, then ensure the new porch gable brings this into consideration....See MoreJane B
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