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DIY Network
American Rehab
Charleston
Wed., Aug. 26th
11 pm EST
From Greenville native Trent Fasnacht: The side door of The TV House
was one of three doors that led to the back. I've never hesitated
to relocate or eliminate an exterior door that I felt wasn't working
right on one of my projects. I moved the back doors at both The
Fire House and The Cottage, and eliminated a door at The Bungalow that
was unnecessary and interfered with foot traffic flow... which is
always important to me and something I'm mindful of when I redesign a
floor plan before a project really gets going. (seeStep 6 -
Sketch out the Floor Plan). The side door didn't need to be taken
out or re-positioned, but everything around it had to be considered as
I re-worked the floor plan.
This side door is next to what I call the Holy Corner... like in Holy
mackerel!, Holy buckets!, Holy moly look at that hole in the side of
the wall! Really... we had daylight shining thru an opening
the size of a golf ball! Unless you want birds, snakes, lizards,
and other critters coming inside for shelter, this is not good.
Even though this corner is on the exterior, when working from the
outside it's referred to as an interior corner. Inside and out,
this part of the home has been a major issue for me from day one.
The way the rain came off the roof was something of a jacked up
mess. We started with a metal roof/asphalt shingle valley that
caught the eye in an avoidable way and the water collected between the
brick/stucco steps and this interior corner. This spot is where
the original part of the house meets two previous additions; the
sunroom and the side bedroom. It needed reworked/cleaned up for
aesthetic reasons, but functionally as far as drainage and managing
rain water, it was a part of the house that I'd been anxious to address.
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