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Friends & Family entrance for our Georgian home--yay/nay?
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Wed, Aug 10, 11 at 22:44
| We are about to break ground on our Georgian-style home. The house has one attached and one detached garage, a main door in the front of the house and two doors on the back. The architect has a friends and family entrance designed for the area between the house and the attached garage. The attached garage is set back a little bit from the facade of the house, which is why I am also including a diagram of the first floor, which shows the steps leading up to the friends and family entrance. This would enter into the mud hall which attaches the garage to the main part of the house. I'm debating against this entrance because it would sort of disrupt the landscaping I have in mind for the front of the house (simple oval driveway in front of the house with boxwood hedges, very historic looking) because of the necessary walkway and steps. Plus, do we really need this entrance? If our kids are dropped off or our parents visit they can come through the garage, the front door, or the back door. I would really love any thoughts on this both from a convenience standpoint and also aesthetics. I'm including a photo of the front of our house and a diagram of the first floor. Help!!!! :)
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RE: Friends & Family entrance for our Georgian home--yay/nay?
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RE: Friends & Family entrance for our Georgian home--yay/nay?
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| You need to upload your jpegs to an image sharing service like Photobucket.com or Flickr.com or TinyPic.com then follow their directions for capturing the html code that will make the images show up here on Gardenweb. |
RE: Friends & Family entrance for our Georgian home--yay/nay?
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| Don't see your link, but I think yes you do need that entrance. Our house sounds similar (traditional center house with garage pushed back and friends entrance). I think yes you do need that entrance . . . do you want muddy feet coming through your entrance hall? We also have a staircase to the second floor coming through the back hall so friends of kids can come in and go straight upstairs or to the basement (think packs of teenagers). I don't think it is an issue with landscaping as if yours is designed as ours is your driveway will be back that direction anyway. We are putting a walkway from the friends entrance to the driveway (sticking pretty close to the house to keep it away from our other main entrance) - and landscaping that area like a little courtyard. |
RE: Friends & Family entrance for our Georgian home--yay/nay?
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| To me, I just think it is a choice between what you want your facade to look like and how you will actually live in the house. I totally get why you may not want the look of a second entrance that is visible from the front, I have always had a little architectural problem with the "2 doors look" and the slight confusion it might cause guests...BUT I do totally agree that it is very important to have an entrance like this, especially if you have children. We have children in and out of our house all day long, and I certainly don't want those dirty little shoes in the "dressy" part of my house! :) |
RE: Friends & Family entrance for our Georgian home--yay/nay?
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i can't seem to upload pdf files to photobucket, etc.
well, the driveway will be on the left and connect to the oval turnaround. so, when approaching the house the friends and family door would be much more visible than the front door unless someone decided to drive around the oval (this likely won't happen often). i'm planning special things for the front door, so having a competing door worries me. why can't my kids just go through the garage into the mud hall and down into the basement or upstairs directly from there? as a family it will be very rare for the kids to enter the house from the front (we are far away from the street and have several acres so they will likely play in the backyard and go through there). so, i can understand informal guests going through there, but still wonder why they can't go through the garage near where their car will be. obviously i'm really torn here. i'd love more thoughts. wish i could figure out the photo thing. |
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| ok, here are the images: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=131bb92780
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RE: Friends & Family entrance for our Georgian home--yay/nay?
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| Still cant view them! You need to put them in Photobucket or tinypic and then click on the HMTL link and paste here. It is telling me no permission to view. . . We don't have a circular driveway - doesnt work with our lot (which has an island in front of it) and interferes with the play yard we need there (3 boys). There are lots of beautiful landcaping ways to differentiate the front and back of the home. We don't have a side door because our lot is narrow and long, but a side door would have been a good option. Going through the garage is ok if the only folks who are visiting are family but do you want your kids friends coming through the garage? It sounds like your kids are young, but what about teenagers? Do you want to leave your garage door open for kids to enter? I don't know how far your friends entry is pushed back, but for us it is obvious even without landscaping where you should enter. We are doing two parking pads - one directly across from the front walkway (to encourage people to park and walk to the front door), and another opposite the garage for turn around/kids parking,etc. We went through all of this with our landscape architect and even though I haven't seen it all implemented I do believe him when he says there are ways to differentiate entrances. I just think you might regret not having it and there are certainly landscape solutions for it. As far as the doors go - we did do a more prominent door on the front with sidelights, but a raised panel 9 light door on the back. One will have a formal portico entrance, the other will have a copper swoop roof on brackets. Both will have gas lanterns. I think if you pay attention to the details, people won't be ringing your back door :) |
RE: Friends & Family entrance for our Georgian home--yay/nay?
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| You uploaded to google docs. Upload to Picasa and it will work. The pic portion of the pdf needs to be copied to a jpeg file. |
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