Cape Cod Front Door

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Paint your front door an accent colour. Although the style faded a bit it found a resurgence in the early to mid 1900s when it was called cape cod revival. Even though the styles were separated by about a century they still share several commonalities including a conspicuous lack of exterior details. Most cape cod front doors are either black dark blue maroon or even brown.

If the door is also white the owner usually wants to combine the original design with a touch of something more modern. Many cape cod style homes were built before the civil war. The photos are great but the stories are even better especially for cape cod front porch ideas. Why is this a cape cod style.

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What are the modern modifications. Steep pitch to roof. Outfit your home exterior attractive trim well placed arbor beautiful stone walkway period porch light other tools can imagination transform ranch home into. The houses were designed to withstand the stormy weather of the coast of massachusetts and most designs still draw from their colonial counterparts.

Traditional cape cod styled houses are quite simple consisting of symmetrically designed central front doors which are encompassed by a couple of multi paned windows on either side. Most people in the cape had a front door painted in a great colour. Shed or gable dormers are often aligned with windows on main floor and large chimneys are lined on center with front door and linked to fireplaces in each room. The black and white exterior here is the typical design of some new england townhouses back then.

Cape cod homes feature steeply pitched roofs with side gables and occasionally a bowed or gambrel roof. Shutters although on the front door and not on the windows. Oct 28 2016 explore ellen conaty s board cape cod front doors on pinterest. The cape cod front door.

Center hall floor plan. I love the way this orange door relates to the fading hydrangeas and the bench on the porch.