Dream House Fumble #1 – Answer
Okay, here’s the answer to “Dream House Fumble #1.” 
Really, there were a few things you could have criticized. But the thing that caught my attention and can make an otherwise decent house design end up sour and off-key was the mismatch of the arched opening in the brick wall and the arch of the garage door windows.
The brick wall is expensive enough and the cast limestone jamb and head of the gargar door opening is even more costly, but the garage door is not unique in any way. These kinds of door come with standard arch shapes and they can not be easily customized. What should have happened here is the builder or architect should have found out the radius of the window arch, then determined the distance from the top of the window to the bottom of the cast stone arch. He then should have added that distance to the window arch radius to find the proper radius for the cast stone arch. The cast stone is easily customized. The result is that the two arches would have been concentric and looked appropriate for each other instead of being as out of whack as they are.
One of my favorite sources for cast stone is Classic Cast Stone at http://www.classiccaststone.com/.
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Bill Hirsch
www.designingyourperfecthouse.com
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