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Front door not centered under portico

We are renovating our home. Our front door currently faces the side and we are turning it to face forward. In that process, it leaves out door off centered. We cannot move the window to the left of the door as that is the living room window. Also, there is a covered porch on the left side of the house and the area to the left of the front door is what provides access to the covered porch from the front door (see side elevation below for clarity). Any ideas of how to make this look better? Or does it seem ok? Thanks!





Comments (9)

  • PRO
    2 years ago

    Your house is asymmetrical and always will be. No one perceives a door off-center in person the way it looks in a drawing. Curved path, great landscaping, door off center within porch will be a non issue.

    April Bernstein Galena thanked HALLETT & Co.
  • PRO
    2 years ago

    I do not find it bad or really off center The window to the left helps and the bigger window and the garage door add to the balance no symmetry needed MY concern is the stone look around the upper windows IMO stone on a home needs to look like it was needed for support not slapped on with no thought If you want that stone there thn it needs to have stone under it to make sense . Why 2 different window tops on the upper floor?

    April Bernstein Galena thanked Patricia Colwell Consulting
  • 2 years ago

    The eyebrow over the left widows on the 2nd floor bothers me. Needs to match the other window on the right side.

    I'm assuming the cladding around both of those windows is stucco?

    The front door & portico looks good. No need to change that, IMO.

    April Bernstein Galena thanked ci_lantro
  • PRO
    2 years ago
    last modified: 2 years ago

    Taking away some of the embellishments on the house could only help it.

    You probably can't fix the placement of the garage door but here it is centered under the window.



    April Bernstein Galena thanked BeverlyFLADeziner
  • 2 years ago

    Despite the fact that I don't have an updated elevation, we have changed the eyebrow over the left 2nd floor window to an pointed roof (sorry I don't know the technical name) to match the right side of the house. Thought I do like it flat like Beverly's pic above. Another change we made was instead of stucco/stone around the window, we were going to do a white decorative panel (see inspo pic below for the concept)


  • PRO
    2 years ago

    Great, house is too small for three siding materials (frankly I would skip the stone too)

  • 2 years ago

    The one post under the portico bothers me, as it is right in front of the window. Can that be fixed so that the one post can be removed. I dont like all the stone either. I see no reason for it. The house will be way to busy.

  • 2 years ago

    We cannot move that post in front of the window. If you look at the side elevation it supports the part of the roof that is over the front door. We were thinking about removing the stone so appreciate the feedback there!

  • PRO
    2 years ago

    I would not add those fancy trims around the windows . I am not sure that changing that post would be an improvement. I am happy to here you changed tha window up top and are removing the stone but do not replace that with that decorative trim leass is more IMO for sure on exteriors . I think seeing the actual house coluld be a really huge help for sure . Post the pics here in a comment DO NOT start another post .