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A measured plan belongs on floor plan. This page needs the house you can already see.
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What the house must keep
Keep the massing
Wings, roof volume, and porch depth stay
Keep the openings
Doors and windows stay on their walls
Keep the camera
The street or garden view stays the one in the photo
House
Whole house
Restyle the house you can see from the street or the garden. This pass is the whole house from a street or garden photo. Cladding, trim, and roof character can be tested. Massing and openings lock, so the wings, the roof volume, and the windows you refuse to move stay in that same picture.
Whole house in frame. Massing and openings lock.
The vantage, the volume, the windows, the cladding, the garden side, the camera, and a second finish each need a picture. Drop a file into the matching slot and the block fills.
The whole house is in the frame. A cropped entry is a different job.
A new skin does not swell a wing or shave off the porch.
Sash and shutters can change. A new glass corner cannot.
Brick, board and batten, or stone is the test. The outline is not.
A rear photo is valid when the whole house, not only a terrace, is the subject.
The proposal is judged against the photograph, not a new angle.
Try another trim or roof surface without moving a wing.
Vantage
The photograph is taken from the street or from the garden, with roof and ground line both visible. A tight shot of the front door is a different job. If a side wing is cropped, the massing is already a guess and the pass should not invent the missing volume.
Massing
Gables, porch depth, and a wing that steps back are massing. They lock. A new board-and-batten skin does not get to swell a one-story ell into a tower, or shave the porch off so the elevation looks flatter in the render.
Openings
Openings lock with the massing. The entry stays on its wall. Window heads do not jump a story. Sash, surround, and shutter can be restudied. A glass corner the house does not have is out of bounds.
Roof to ground, from the street or the garden. A porch detail is not this page.
Wings, roof volume, and porch depth stay. Style does not redraw the silhouette.
Doors and windows remain in the walls they already occupy.
Cladding, trim, and roof surface are what you are here to test.
A rear garden photo is valid when the whole house, not only a terrace, is the subject.
Judge the proposal against the photograph you brought, not against a new angle.
From the street or the garden, include the roof and the ground line. Do not crop a wing.
Massing and openings lock. After that, name the cladding or roof surface you want to try.
If a wing moved or a window appeared, the pass failed.
The street wall alone, the roof alone, and a color test are separate studies. They should not be asked to redesign the massing.
A balcony, a terrace, a front elevation, and a cladding study are decisions about the house you can already see. They are chapters here, not separate indexed tools.
Two chairs and pots live inside the railing you have. The door swing and the drainage line stay. The slab is not extended to fit a sofa.
An outdoor room on the ground, one step from the door. Shade covers the seats. The terrace ends at an edge you can name.
Only the front elevation, and only as many floors as the photograph already has. The door stays findable. Window heads keep their line.
Name the cladding. Openings, trim, and the roof stay. A material that cannot turn the corner is not a material for this house.
The whole house
Exterior design is the visible house from the street or the garden. Cladding, openings you allow, the entry, and the character can change. The massing stays unless you came here to test an addition, and even then the original house has to remain legible. This is not the facade page, which is only the front elevation, and it is not the directory that lists every outdoor tool.
Photograph the whole volume. A tight crop of a door will invent wings you do not have. Count the floors in the picture and expect the same count back. Paint, siding, and roof each have a page when only one of those is the question. Use this page when several of them must be decided together.
The ground is background unless you also open a landscape or garden tool. A flattering lawn drawn over a slope you have to walk is not part of this promise.
Width, height, and roof form are the house. A new style does not add a floor.
Lock the windows you cannot move. A symmetrical facade that deletes a real stair window is a fiction.
The door, the path, and the first step are how a person arrives. Do not hide them behind a hedge the photo did not have.
If you only want color, use the paint visualizer. If you only want the skin, use siding.
The links below are the neighboring jobs. Each one keeps a promise this page does not make.
Exterior directory lists the house and the ground separately. This page is the whole visible house.
Facade is only the front, and only as many floors as it has.
Addition sets a new volume against the house that is already standing.
A whole house from the street or the garden, with massing and openings held.
Yes. This is the whole house from a street or garden photo. A cropped entry hides the massing you are supposed to lock.
Roof volume, porch depth, and the way wings step. Materials can change around that outline. The outline does not.
Enclosing a porch moves an opening and changes massing. Both lock on this page, so that move belongs elsewhere.
Yes, when the whole house is in it. A garden photo of only the terrace is a patio or backyard problem, not an exterior one.
Yes. Divided lights, a thicker surround, or a shutter can change. The opening itself stays where it is.
Not here. Openings lock. A floor plan or an elevation study that allows new punches is the right next page.
Yes. The photograph supplies the wings, the roof volume, and the windows. The plan changes cladding, trim, and roof surface around that outline.
One street or garden photo is the document. Name the massing and the openings before you name the cladding.