The porch at Thomas Hardy's cottage is set to be taken down and rebuilt to its original design. The timber and felt porch at the National Trust property in Higher Bockhampton in Dorset has been found ...

The felt porch will be rebuilt with a corrugated iron roof seen in the author's drawings The porch at Thomas Hardy's cottage is set to be taken down and rebuilt to its original design. The timber and ...

Adding a porch to a front door can vastly improve kerb appeal - providing a lovely inbetween area when transitioning from the outside to in. They don’t just add a thoughtful design flourish, but they ...

NOTHING EPITOMIZES Lowcountry living quite like an airy screened-in porch. But as their family grew, Julia and Thomas Berolzheimer began seeing the wraparound deck on their Mount Pleasant, S.C., home ...

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Is there a better way to spend a lovely summer evening than sitting on your porch enjoying the breeze? Even if you don't live near the ocean, you can trick yourself into thinking you've got a breezy, ...

THE PLACE: This four-bedroom cottage perched on the edge of Baptiste Lake has a huge fireplace and a wraparound deck for summer sunsets. BRAGGING RIGHTS: Lots of places to dip your toes in the water.