It's a cold hard world
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Having that!
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I think that's one of the first 'clean' snowman gags I've seen (you know some of the other ones I'm talking about) that Calvin and Hobbes didn't do first.
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Who is responsible for that abomination of architectural design?
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Poverty, likely.
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There seems to be a long standing trend to window/wall in porches with aesthetically displeasing results.
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I don't have a problem with the porch or the window wall per se, but who decided to put that supporting pillar off centre to have 4 windows on one side and 3 on the other?
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Whoever decided that pillar should be off-center needed to askew.
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Optimally esthetic fenestration is a pursuit of the wealthier - the struggling working folk fit the project architecture to the lowest cost materials available. Getting optimal esthetic balance to the fenestration of the porch would require reducing total available light exposure by removing one window in favor of building out a wider center beam, or using far more expensive large glass windows which would be impractical from the standpoint of not allowing circulation of air in seasons when it would be optimal use of the porch. The off balance solution they settled on seems entirely about the windows available.
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I'm guessing that the center pillar was one of the original *TWO* porch pillars and the other matching end pillar was added when the porch, or the porch roof, was enlarged...long before the whole thing was closed in and screened and then later weatherized by adding glass windows. At no point was anyone as fancy as an actual architect involved.
So yes, I think BSG has it exactly right: "the struggling working folk fit the project architecture to the lowest cost materials available"...or more succinctly, "Poverty, likely."
So yes, I think BSG has it exactly right: "the struggling working folk fit the project architecture to the lowest cost materials available"...or more succinctly, "Poverty, likely."
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I'm guessing the non-central pillar is where it was put from the get-go. The front door is centered - I'd guess there were steps up to the porch to access that door and the pillar was sited to the right with a handrail attached (or not; those seem to be a modern obsession of yellow-safety-conscious government grandmamas). Had the pillar been centered, the steps would have been off-set from the door.
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There are also things like not having a support beam in front of your picture window (when it was just a porch)
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What picture window?
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