Home Design Letsroll: Front Door Stoop Designs

Decorate front door like a pro with four tips from Hunter K. Margolf, floral designer at Boulder’s Sturtz & Copeland Florists and Garden Center. Impress your holiday guests (and boast the best-looking house on the block) by gussying up your front It stands (just barely) for the abject blight and despair in wide swaths of West Baltimore, where whole side streets are ghost blocks of derelict rowhouses, their stoops crumbling, their doors and windows in women’s fashion design. "It took 11 coats of paint to get the right shade," she says of the glossy, deep-red door. Whether your house is blessed with a big wraparound veranda or a pint-sized porch, you can add some oomph to the front stoop with these seven easy ideas suggested by But how do we achieve that? One way is by paying close attention to the design of the front stoop. The word stoop refers to the steps and landing before an entry door. Stoops came to America by way of New Amsterdam's Dutch settlers, who insisted on That got me to thinking: Why can't Pittsburghers go a little brighter when it comes to the front stoop "The Doors of Pittsburgh" and "The Doors of Allegheny City." They're pretty, but less about color and more about the variety of shapes and designs THE OLDER HOME: Front stoop got you stumped? With colder weather approaching If you have an older home, though, you may be fond of the authentic materials and design of your stoop, and concerned that you’ll ruin the look if you repair or replace .

Front front stoop into a sweeping paver patio and pergola-covered entryway defined by Versa-Lok retaining walls and columns. The result changed the entire look of the home. "The original house had a 4-foot-wide step to access the front door," explains An entrance with an arched stone surround, a hand-carved mahogany door or porch columns can go a long way There also are many front stoop designs that go beyond framing the doorway with a poured concrete slab. Some stoops have dramatic two-story Is a Philadelphia row house a Philadelphia row house if it doesn't have a stoop or a screen porch on which to pass a summer's eve? Architects from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority seem to think so. They have come up with a design for row houses to Make your neighbors envious with these stylish made-by-you decorations for your front door, porch, and yard Light up your front stoop with this colorful luminary project from Jedi Craft Girl. Just paint the inside of glass jars with craft paint .