How Do You Design Front Steps To A Porch?
If your home needs a new porch, or a reconfiguration of the steps is required for comfort or safety, you can design a new approach to your home’s entrance using an age-old builder engineering formula. Be sure to check with local building codes before starting a project like this: Most communities don’t regulate smaller projects like this, but since steps are potential hazards, it’s better to be safe and get permits if they are required than to have your project rejected after the fact. Observe your home from a distance, such as from across the street, and gauge where the new steps would be most visually attractive for your front entrance. A porch staircase has value as a decorative feature, so don’t overlook this potential. Role play the many ways different visitors naturally approach your front door via the porch. Delivery people, mail carriers and other visitors choose a comfortable pathway from the street or driveway to the porch, and this pathway will usually be a direct “bee-line.
