Custom Home · Barrington
Walkout Custom Home in Barrington
A white gabled house in Barrington, set into falling ground so the lower level walks out under a covered porch to the back lawn.
Falling ground, put to use
The ground falls away behind the house, which is a gift if you plan for it early. The lower level comes out at grade here rather than sitting buried, with a covered porch on square columns running along it and the back lawn starting straight off the slab.
Above that sits a deck with black rail, and above that a gable with a tall window group facing the yard. An open timber ceiling covers part of the upper porch. Working a walkout properly means fixing the height the house sits at on site, which is the last thing settled before the contract starts.
The short version
- Type
- Custom Home
- Where
- Barrington, IL
- Scope
- Custom home with a walkout and covered porch
- Photographs
- 11
The gallery
White gables above a walkout
The rear elevation shows the grade change that the covered porch and the walkout were planned around.
Worth noticing
Three things about this one
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A walkout lower level opening to the rear lawn under a covered porch
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A black railed deck above the porch, below a tall gable window group
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Open timber ceiling over part of the upper rear porch
Ask what this one cost
We can tell you the budget, the schedule and what went sideways on the way. Every job has something. The useful question is what happened next.