{"id":149,"date":"2010-01-23T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/23\/the-lawrence-street-house-front-porch"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:07:04","slug":"the-lawrence-street-house-front-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"The Lawrence Street House \u2013 Front Porch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?attachment_id=1132\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1132\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/porch-300x182.jpg?resize=300%2C182\" alt=\"\" title=\"porch-300x182\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1132\" \/><\/a>This post is Front Porch because we also have a Side Porch I&#8217;ll talk about in a future post.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Part of our desire to be downtown is neighborhood. Connecting with people and the whole aspect of our culture that we&#8217;ve lost in the suburbs. We&#8217;ve noticed, when walking around this neighborhood that people are out front. 15th Street is a major bike and pedestrian connector with more bikes than cars, I think.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So we wanted a place that relates our home design to the street. We found a picture of an old bungalow house that had kind of a corner wrap-around porch. That concept stuck with us. Since our lot is a corner lot, this orientation seemed to make all sorts of sense.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So here&#8217;s the result. We have a nice corner porch, south-facing, with room for a couple of chairs to sit out and drink coffee and watch the neighbors walk by. It has what we envision to be a gently curved roof to provide visual interest from the street and protection from the rain as people come to visit. Right now, we&#8217;re showing a short sidewalk to each street: Lawrence and 15th. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is Front Porch because we also have a Side Porch I&#8217;ll talk about in a future post. Part of our desire to be downtown is neighborhood. Connecting with people and the whole aspect of our culture that we&#8217;ve lost in the suburbs. We&#8217;ve noticed, when walking around this neighborhood that people are out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lawrence Street House \u2013 Front Porch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,136,84],"tags":[9,12,13,15,16,18,19,20,27,29,31,32,33],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-plans","category-lawrence-street","category-lifestyle","tag-affordable","tag-design","tag-energy-efficient","tag-houses","tag-housing","tag-leed","tag-leed-platinum","tag-pizzaz","tag-schematic","tag-simple","tag-stock-plans","tag-style","tag-sustainable-and-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}