The one thing that you have to know is that when you deal with traditional idioms like center hall colonials, there’s what architects like to call ‘enfrontment’, meaning that the front of your house parallels the street.
And there’s the added stylistic site planning determination of symmetry.
So, with an ‘enfronting’ house, with symmetry, it puts a straight jacket on the interior of the house, at least for the front half of the house.
So when you’re thinking about buying a house or moving up to a house, realize that you can’t really reinvent any house without spending a ton of dough.
And if you’re uncomfortable with having that centered, uncompromising aspect of facing the street with windows on either side with a front door that that locks in the rest of the plan, then don’t buy that house.
Duo Dickinson
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Architect, author, and designer of "The Barn of Fun"
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