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Front Addition

Bearcubus
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sheltered, 2-storey black-trimmed glass box with plenty of balcony-verandah and sitting-stair connection to the outside. Functional and aesthetic.

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wood trimmed large windows and wood ceiling, scando fireplace

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Eva Bodenmüller
Eva Bodenmüller

Houzz Tour: House Stays on Budget Thanks to Industrial Materials

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This whole $350K Büro für Bauform project is spectacular. They do the thing I've been wondering about, applying industrial materials to economize housing while making it luxurious. Check out translucent polycarbonate middle section. Admittedly, industrial materials in regions outside Germany may be a lot lower quality.

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glass pop-out: black metal trimmed large windows and wood ceiling

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This is "a standing seam roof. It's most likely 26ga or 24 ga and was either installed by a roof contractor or a metal fabricator. Generally either company owns a machine that will break the profile of the panel from a coil. Then each panel is installed from eave to ridge. There are a few styles of fastening systems ie. snap lock, screws. A true standing seam is fastened with clips then a seamer is used to fold it into the next panel."

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airy, comfortable, and stately way to enter and exit a home

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front door and steps up prioritize view of & connection to outside, grand & tasteful appearance.

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Beautiful black-stained wood siding with copper drainpipes

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black metal trimmed large windows and wood ceiling

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Check out this project. This japonaise "craftsman teahouse" is crazy beautiful.

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Clear vertical-grain cedar overhangs

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Bold and glam wood bloc front door framed by glass

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This is a great treatment for a flat-faced house: Pergola on top of a verandah lets light in the windows.

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Inviting proportions, curvature

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Old-skool handsome. 2nd floor interior of front addition could have wall of wood-trimmed windows with long counter/desk. I like this horizontal wallpaper in this wood-trimmed room.

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stately, comforting, covered parallel-to-front entry. Good proportions with high transom windows, handsome materials. It's like a posh speakeasy entrance to a country club.

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another good ol' glass, steel and wood box

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Glass room with pergola roof

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This is a good way to end the master bed--with a wood-trimmed window-rich study/potting room interior finish. Allows windows w/a little privacy.

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Sublime entryway. The wood lattice and glass double doors, framed by wide, shallow limestone front steps. The metal roof. The The trees.

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2nd floor interior. "Japanese houses are sited north-south, with the main rooms facing south, to ensure steady sunlight throughout the day. Views — ideally of mountains or water but more often of a garden — are essential. Natural light is considered a human right in Japan for homeowners and apartment dwellers alike."

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I like the 3-D pop-out glass wall on the front of the box, but I'd prefer vertical tongue-and-groove black steel or wood siding to the blue siding here. I mean, copper would be nice, but unreali$tic.

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On the quaint & sheltering side: Hogwarts front box, with upper paned windows, and Canmore-style timber-framed, windowed, sun room & entrance to foyer. Small portico for weather cover. Bottom could be more modern. Some windows need to open in the summer.

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stacked glass boxes framed in white steel.

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wood & glass box.

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wood & windows-based front. recreate as box front addition. On our house, we could flip this, extend the interior corner of a flat-roof front box as a (covered?) balcony extending across the S-E bedroom. (Here the corner balcony is exterior to the house.)

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I would love Nordic, black, vertical exterior tongue and groove wall paneling for the front renovation. Steel would be a great material. Can be warmed up with wood trim and soffets. This is an ideal shape for snow. Would want more windows.

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