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A measured plan belongs on floor plan. This page needs the front elevation you can already see.

Design Style

Floor count

Facade Pieces

Floors, entry, and cladding

Entry

Cladding

Additional Information (Optional)

What the facade must keep

Keep the floor count

The number of stories on the street wall stays

Keep the openings

Doors and windows stay in their bays

Keep it square

The camera stays square to the front wall

Front

Example of a front elevation that keeps its floors

Front elevation

Only the front elevation, and only as many floors as it has

This page is the front elevation only. Entry, cladding, and the order of the bays can be restudied. Floor count and openings lock, so a two-story front does not grow a third floor and a marked window does not migrate to balance a new drawing.

Front elevation only. Write down the floor count.

Seven pictures of one street wall

The square view, the floor count, the bays, the shutters, the entry, the cladding, and a second finish each need a picture. Drop a file into the matching slot and the block fills.

  • Front

    Square to the street wall

    A corner shot is a whole-house picture, not this elevation.

  • Front

    The floor count written down

    Two stories stay two. A cottage does not grow a floor.

  • Front

    Openings locked to their floors

    The door stays on the entry story. Upper windows stay upstairs.

  • Front

    Shutters as trim

    The surround can change. The hole in the wall cannot move.

  • Front

    The entry inside its bay

    A porch can be restudied. The door does not slide to the center.

  • Front

    Cladding on this wall only

    Brick, board, or render is tested on the street wall, not on a new wing.

  • Front

    A second finish of the same elevation

    Try another door style without adding a story.

Square on

Face the street wall, not the corner

A facade photograph is taken straight at the front elevation. A three-quarter view that pulls in the side yard is a whole-house picture, and it will tempt a redesign of massing this page is not allowed to touch.

Stories

Floor count is a number

Count the floors on the street wall and keep that number. Floor count locks. A cottage front stays a cottage front. A townhouse does not lose a story to look shorter, and it does not gain one to look grander.

Bays

Openings lock to the floors they serve

Openings lock with the floor count. The door stays on the entry story. Upper windows stay upstairs. Muntins, shutters, and the surround can change. Deleting a bay so the elevation looks symmetrical is a failed pass.

Rules for the public face

  • Front elevation only

    Side walls, the garden, and the roof plan stay out of the brief on purpose.

  • Floor count lock

    The number of stories on the street wall is fixed before any material is chosen.

  • Opening lock

    Windows and the entry stay in the bays you mark. They do not slide for composition.

  • Entry sequence

    Porch, door, and the last steps to the threshold can be restyled inside those locks.

  • This wall's cladding

    Brick, board, or render is tested on the front elevation, not on a new wing.

  • No oblique rescue

    If the photo is corner-on, reshoot it square. Do not pretend it is an elevation.

Read it like an elevation drawing

  1. 1. Square the camera

    Stand opposite the front elevation. Eaves and the ground line should both be in the shot.

  2. 2. Write the two locks

    Floor count and openings lock. Then name the cladding or the entry treatment you want to test.

  3. 3. Reject a new story

    If the result has a different number of floors, or a window that changed bays, throw it out.

The front

Only the front elevation, and only the floors it has

Facade design studies the public face: entry, windows, and cladding, seen straight on. Floor count stays. Side walls and the garden are out of frame on purpose. If your photograph is a three-quarter view of the whole house, the exterior page is the better instrument.

A front elevation is a drawing even when it starts as a photo. Alignments matter. Heads of windows should share a line unless the house already breaks it. The door should be findable. A new cladding that crawls over the openings has failed the elevation.

Roof form is the roof page. Color alone is the paint page. Here you may change the composition of the front, inside the openings you lock.

Read the page from four sides

  • Straight on

    A skewed photo hides the floor count. Stand far enough back to see the whole front.

  • The entry

    The door, the number of steps, and the cover over them are the facade’s sentence.

  • The rhythm

    Windows are a cadence. Do not add a bay the wall cannot hold.

  • The stop

    The side returns and the rear are not this drawing.

Where this page stops

The links below are the neighboring jobs. Each one keeps a promise this page does not make.

  • Exterior design includes the sides and the mass, not only the front.

  • Elevation rendering polishes a drawing you already made. It does not invent a new front.

  • Siding changes the skin and leaves the composition alone.

Facade questions

The front elevation only, with the floor count and the bays held.

Why is a corner photo the wrong document?

This page is the front elevation only. A corner shot includes side massing and invites changes that do not belong on the street wall.

Can I add a floor to balance the composition?

No. Floor count locks. Balance has to be found in cladding, the entry, and the surrounds, not in a new story.

Do shutters count as openings?

Shutters are trim. The opening is the hole in the wall. You can restyle shutters. You cannot close the hole or move it.

What if there is a half-story under the eaves?

Count it as the floor it is. Floor count locks, including a dormer story if that is what the elevation shows.

Can the front door move to the center bay?

Not while openings lock. A centered door is a new opening diagram, not a new door style.

Is the side wall in scope if it is barely visible?

No. If the side wall matters, use the whole-house exterior page. Here the front elevation is the entire subject.

Can the floor count be read from this photo?

Yes. The photograph supplies the stories, the bays, and the entry. The plan does not add a floor to balance the wall.

Return to the elevation photo

Square, full height, floor count noted. If a story appeared, the elevation was ignored.