What style house has a deep porch all the way around?
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They are simple wood houses with a nice deep porch 360 degrees or very nearly all the way around on some. The kind of porch where you can have a porch swing or sofa and rocker not touching the house and still walk around the perimeter inside or outside the furniture easily, not the narrow things they call a porch on most modern homes. These houses were never on a slab, but sitting on cedar posts or such with a crawl space under the house for plumbing and wiring. Dogs and cats like hanging out under the house in the cool shade. I don't know squat about architecture but I like this type of house and don't know what I should be looking for to find models of such a house. I'm not looking for frilly gingerbread trim houses or fancy Victorian houses with a lot of peaks and dormers - more along the lines of an old farm house with a simple sloping roof. A tin roof is best (rain on a tin roof makes me sleep so soundly), but shingles are OK, but mostly what I am seeking is a nice sturdy built deep porch, with or without railings, all around the house.
I played on such porches as a child - mothers kept kids outside but they could still see and hear them. Railings are for kids to sit on and break - been there, done that, don't care for them myself, prefer sitting on the edge of the porch and swinging my feet. A benefit to these houses is one can keep windows open even when it rains unless the wind is fierce and that's usually only one or two sides of the house at most; one usually has a dry place to sit outside every day.
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The early planters' houses in Florida and the pre-Greek Revival creole houses in southern Louisiana had such characteristics (I'm from that part of the world, and used to own such a house), although they tended at least initially to use cedar shingles for roofing. The style lingered on because it worked so well in a hot climate with heavy rainfall...this is my grandfather's place, now part of a county park in Florida. It's a bit larger and much later (1893) than the original models. Interestingly enough, a cognate for the style was the Adirondack "lodge" used as a summer home in nineteenth century NY.
Posted by Lewis Wadsworth
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That's Florida Cracker Style isn't it Lewis?
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James, it's kind of a mix of the two actually; the roof is more like the one on the brown house but the porch looks more like the white house - although the houses I recall have about 6 steps or more off the ground which is a lot higher off the ground than the white house.
The roof shape is more like the house at this url
http://www.coastalliving.com/coastal/homes/houseplans/article/0,15027,321223,00.html
This house is still not quite high enough off the ground but closer - and the porch is not fully wrapped but the basic style is really homey, love the handrails not being wood, and it is comfortable looking to me. At last I had a style to search for and am getting better results searching.http://www.coastalliving.com/coastal/homes/houseplans/article/0,15027,1563630,00.html
This link has a great roof if you leave off the dormer or whatever you call that protrusion. I really don't care for "things" sticking out of the roof, split levels or multi-story houses. I'd take off the railings on this porch but the height looks about right. Porch depth hard to say, looks 3 feet or more shy of being deep enough judging by the look of the porch roof overhang.Thanks for giving me a particular style to look for as wrap around porch alone didn't give me so many options.
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Diana,
The second link is a derivative of the Florida Cracker Style.
Basically, a way for people (without air-conditioning) to stay cool. It's called the style is called Cracker from the way they used to round up their cattle. Cracking the whip... or that's the story I was told. -
@cheffey said:
That's Florida Cracker Style isn't it Lewis?
Yes....or rather, Yep. My father uses that term (he's trying to start a "revival"), but not everyone seems comfortable with it or thinks of it as a real distinction from other early southeastern architectures. The closer you get to the Spanish colonial capital of St. Augustine (where I was born), the more criollo features, like tabby walls and screens, creep in...or maybe it's the other way around, given the cultural history before the tourist culture swamped everything.
EDIT: Cheffey is correct, Diana...that's a tidied up version of the Cracker Style, with a bit of Carribean vernacular thrown in. I've never known the origin of the term...but you know, my grandfather raised cattle and they taught me when I was young how to use a bullwhip to herd them!
Posted by Lewis Wadsworth
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@not registered yet said:
The early planters' houses in Florida and the pre-Greek Revival creole houses in southern Louisiana had such characteristics (I'm from that part of the world, and used to own such a house), although they tended at least initially to use cedar shingles for roofing.
Posted by Lewis Wadsworth
A very rustic looking style that I've never seen before. I know my hubby would prefer this look over my more plain selections. Thanks!
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From Cocoa Beach to Miami, all used to be populated with this sort of house. Until everyone decided that Mediterranean or Spanish colonial was the way to go. This Florida Cracker style is much more energy efficient and touches the ground more lightly than the others.
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we call it the Queenslander. Up on stilts to let the air cool underneath. Single skin cladding with only the inside clad and the studs exposed with triangular bracing. High pressed metal ceilings inside.
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@john sayers said:
we call it the Queenslander. Up on stilts to let the air cool underneath. Single skin cladding with only the inside clad and the studs exposed with triangular bracing. High pressed metal ceilings inside.
Thanks John. I had a look at some of the Queenslander homes on the web. Most are a little higher off the ground than the house typical in my area but style is similar. I found an unusual but cool version that was low to the ground and done in brick (photo number 3) at http://dkd.net/maryboro/qhouses.html Gotta love that huge porch.
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yes - but a concrete verandah (porch) is not the same as a timber one. Must be at least 12' wide, preferably 15'
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