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 method in direction of that aim.
Simply to remind you, right here’s the way it began out…
And right here’s what it seems to be 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 feel the addition of window containers and entrance steps will go a great distance in direction of that cottage look that I would like. 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 challenge 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 price choice so as to add some curiosity and depth to the doorway space.
I’ve been protecting my eyes open for choices, and I’ve discovered two that I feel would work. So I had my mother do some photoshop magic for me in order that I might see what they’d appear to be on my workshop.
The primary choice is so as to add an awning. I checked out so many various kinds of awnings, from material to steel to acrylic. Bu there’s a cute little home in Waco that I drive by a number of instances every week, and each time I drive by it, I feel to myself simply how cute it’s. The placement isn’t nice (on a really busy road, which is why I drive by it a number of instances every week), however I like all the pieces 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 look like product of wooden. Even when they’re not product of wooden, I might simply construct one thing like that out of wooden.
Right here’s the home I’m speaking about…
It’s winter now, so all the pieces seems to be lifeless 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 excellent. However I feel it could be sort of plain and nondescript with out the awnings. These awnings are the one 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 huge awning the width of the entrance steps (i.e., the opening within the skirting) in order that the lights could be underneath the awning, and one narrower awning (simply over the door) with the lights outdoors the awning.
Right here’s the huge awning…
And right here’s the slim awning…
Of the 2, I undoubtedly just like the huge awning higher. However one concern I spotted 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 enable for a lot of an angle from entrance to again on the awning or I danger masking up an excessive amount of of the entrance door. And whereas it could by no means be a problem for me since I’m so brief, I don’t need different individuals having to duck or danger 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 due to this fact, can take up much less house, this is perhaps a greater choice on this specific 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 huge model with the lights beneath…
And right here’s a take a look at the slim model with the lights outdoors…
One factor I like concerning the pergola concept is that I might use the identical brackets (which I bought here — affiliate hyperlink) that I used on awning over the facet door of the studio. I might use a smaller model since they arrive in lots of sizes, however I like the concept of getting that cohesive look from one space to a different.
So I’m about 90% certain that I need to go together with the pergola concept. However what I’m undecided about in any respect is the width. I genuinely can’t resolve 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 utterly various kinds of constructions anyway. And I do like the concept 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 feel I like them each equally. So y’all inform me what you suppose. Or do you like 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
