Image excerpt from my Fine Homebuilding "Drawing Board" column about integral porches.Start your spring home-planning with Fine Homebuilding's annual HOUSES issue, on newsstands now. Inside, find my latest "Drawing Board" column. This one focuses on designing integral, entry porches. Learn to differentiate an applied, entry porch from an integral one, and explore four examples of successful integral, entry porches.

Click here for a PDF of the column. "Design an integral porch" by Katie Hutchison, Issue #227, Spring/Summer 2012. Reprinted with permission copyright 2012, The Taunton Press, Inc.

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by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast