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Fetching front porch
Before
- The entry – and what surrounds it – are key to making a home welcoming. So the “Grey Poupon” yellow aluminum siding and tiny off-kilter portico on this Clarendon Hills, Illinois, house had to go.
- In fact, such “updating” had left the 1909 four-square looking like a shell of its former self. Relying on a vintage photograph, the homeowner set about restoring the facade’s original charm.
- Architect David Raino-Ogden drafted the plan for the facade, and a landscape-design course helped the homeowner devise her own plan and hardscape scheme.