The front porch was out and the garage and the television were in. Now the front porch is being revived. Builders are adding them to their floor plans, home buyers are asking for them and architects are doing all sorts of clever things to resurrect this American icon.
New builders have plenty of models to garner ideas.
There are the small porches on the Gothic and Victorian designs. There is the classic columned porch. There are the second story and sleeping porches on the Craftsman Styles and the shingle style porch or the seaside screened-in porches. There is the esoteric and the cynical explanation for their revival. She underestimated how powerful the movement to throw out traditional suburban planning principals would become.