I completely love how my workshop is popping out. After we had it constructed, it was such an enormous, grey, plain field sitting in our yard. I had a imaginative and prescient of turning it into one thing that appears like a cute little cottage in our yard. I’m on my means in direction of that objective.
Simply to remind you, right here’s the way it began out…
And right here’s what it appears to be like like after constructing shutters, portray the entrance door and including a keypad lock, and the beginning on the skirting.
It’s already such an enchancment! I believe the addition of window containers and entrance steps will go a great distance in direction of that cottage look that I need. However one factor that bothers me is the entrance door. In an ideal world, that entrance door would have a gable over it to cowl the door and add a little bit of visible curiosity to an in any other case very flat constructing facade. However constructing a gable over the door isn’t one thing I need to tackle as a DIY mission on my own for a lot of causes, and I don’t need to go to the expense of hiring somebody to do it. I need to discover a decrease value choice so as to add some curiosity and depth to the doorway space.
I’ve been conserving my eyes open for choices, and I’ve discovered two that I believe would work. So I had my mother do some photoshop magic for me in order that I may see what they’d appear like on my workshop.
The primary choice is so as to add an awning. I checked out so many various kinds of awnings, from cloth to steel to acrylic. Bu there’s a cute little home in Waco that I drive by a number of occasions per week, and each time I drive by it, I believe to myself simply how lovable it’s. The placement isn’t nice (on a really busy road, which is why I drive by it a number of occasions per week), however I really like every part else about it. And one of many additions that provides a lot character to the home is the addition of awnings above the home windows. However these awnings seem like fabricated from wooden. Even when they’re not fabricated from wooden, I may simply construct one thing like that out of wooden.
Right here’s the home I’m speaking about…
It’s winter now, so every part appears to be like useless and dormant, however within the spring, when the grass is inexperienced and the Wandering Jew border is a beautiful, vibrant purple, it’s simply image good. However I believe it might be sort of plain and nondescript with out the awnings. These awnings are the only characteristic that flip it into such a cute, eye-catching little home.
So I requested my mother if she would check out the awning concept over the workshop entrance door. I requested her to do it two methods — one broad awning the width of the entrance steps (i.e., the opening within the skirting) in order that the lights will be underneath the awning, and one narrower awning (simply over the door) with the lights outdoors the awning.
Right here’s the broad awning…
And right here’s the slim awning…
Of the 2, I undoubtedly just like the broad awning higher. However one situation I noticed with an awning is that I’ve so little house between the highest of the door and the facia board on the roof. You possibly can see right here simply how little house there’s…
In order that doesn’t permit for a lot of an angle from entrance to again on the awning or I threat overlaying up an excessive amount of of the entrance door. And whereas it might by no means be a difficulty for me since I’m so brief, I don’t need different folks having to duck or threat hitting their head on a wooden awning to get into the entrance door of the workshop.
The second choice is so as to add a pergola above the door. And since a pergola is flat, requires no angles, and subsequently, can take up much less house, this is likely to be a greater choice on this explicit case. As soon as once more, I had my mother do two variations. The primary is a large pergola the width of the steps with the lights beneath, and the second is a door-width pergola with the lights outdoors.
Right here’s a take a look at the broad model with the lights beneath…
And right here’s a take a look at the slim model with the lights outdoors…
One factor I really like concerning the pergola concept is that I may use the identical brackets (which I bought here — affiliate hyperlink) that I used on awning over the facet door of the studio. I may use a smaller model since they arrive in lots of sizes, however I like the thought of getting that cohesive look from one space to a different.
So I’m about 90% certain that I need to go along with the pergola concept. However what I’m undecided about in any respect is the width. I genuinely can’t determine if I like the broader model or the narrower model.
The narrower model is nearer to what I’ve on the studio facet door, however I don’t know that that issues since they’ll be fully various kinds of buildings anyway. And I do like the thought of the pergola width matching the width of the entrance steps. That appears balanced to me. However after I take a look at them side-by-side, I believe I like them each equally. So y’all inform me what you assume. Or do you favor the awning over the pergola?
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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