![]() I agree with planting something low and thick hiding the block foundation, topping but in height with the top of the porch.do so in front of the porch also Upstairs windows, try planted window boxes, something to bring the windows closer to the lower floor. Doing this will remove the big blank space between the 2nd story windows and the porch ceiling below. A change of siding material here, like a shake look would work here. Above this roof provide a pair of 1/2 columns, 8' diameter or so, above the 1/2 columns of the porch below, and a 3/4 corner post, giving the impression that the 2nd story porch has been enclosed. hope your front screen doors are right-hand hinge. A short railing between the 2 columns, and from the corner back to the house will provide a little privacy. Put about 10' diameter 1/2 columns where the porch meets the walls, then 2 full columns, 1 at the corner and the other beside the stair, creating a 'public access' and having the rest of the porch room for a chair or so. We are trying to bring the eye of the viewer down, minimizing the 2nd floor. Remove and replace the corner support with a turned column, Keep all your lower floor columns larger than the upstairs columns. You could even have exposed rafter tails, albeit fake ones, spaced 24'c.c. You could continue the same idea down the left side of the house, as well as the right side as far as the porch. This would make the 2nd floor look like the 2nd floor pokes thru a bungalow roof. Continue this eave roof and frieze board on the left over the big window, matching the existing eave overhang from the roof above. Change the direction of the siding within this gable to vertical. Put a frieze board, 6' to 8' high, above the porch ceiling level, then the roof overhang. Stopping with the peak of the larger gable about 4'-6' below the upstairs window sill. I suggest having a pair of gables over the front porch, perhaps having the larger roof part, centering the roof over the porch, with another gable nested inside that centered over the steps. We either have to accentuate the main floor height or minimize the 2nd floor height, or both. It feels like the porch ceiling is being squashed by the building above. Just input nancyhehmann in the search engine and my shop should come up. My Etsy shop is nancyhehmann and I have more photography from Italy there. Photography is a nice way to add ambience and can be printed on regular photography paper or on canvas. I also have in my Etsy shop the picture of the outside of a restaurant in Sicily with tables outside, potted plants and a nice canvas covering a pergola type structure. I have attached a photograph of a restaurant (outside) from a trip to Venice.I have many more photographs from Etsy in my files from our trip to Florence, Naples, Rome and Venice. I am sure if you researched it a drive through window could add a lot of money. Sometimes if one is in a hurry it would be so nice just to pick it up at a window. We have a restaurant near here with the best food (local) What I would not give for them to have is a drive through window for take out. ![]() Of course quality of food is going to be your biggest draw. You can just put exterior and interior in the google browser. A lot of them may have exterior and interior shots of their restaurants. Before, I made any permanent decisions I would go on the websites of Italian Restaurants in other cities. ![]()
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