Porch Ideas to Help Inspire You

With spring now upon us, you may want to consider enhancing your home’s entrance way and front door.

TPS have over 30 years’ experience designing bespoke porches for customers around the UK and all timber we use is sustainably sourced and visually graded to ensure high quality standards are met.

Why Buy an Oak Porch?

There are a number of reasons why you may be considering an oak porch. Maybe you’re looking to enhance the appearance of your property’s entryway? Maybe your old porch has seen better days and you’re looking to invest in a new, oak-framed alternative? Whatever the reason, our 100% green oak porches combine traditional British appeal with modern craftsmanship, ensuring durability and style for years to come.

Ideas for Your Front Porch

We offer a range of front porches for almost any property. The entrance is the focal point of any property, and our oak framed porches are designed to enhance the appearance of all entryways. We have listed a few of our most popular porch kits below. Please explore and experiment with the different customisable options.

Wall Mounted Porch

One of the most popular porch kits we provide is the wall mounted porch. If you’re looking for a porch idea that is simple and quick to construct, this may be the choice for you.

Wall mounted porches are the most cost-effective design for enhancing your property’s entrance. At TPS, we also allow you to fully customise the design of your porch. You will be able to pick and choose the following options:

• The size of your porch
• Front elevation
• Roof pitch
• Beam style

If you’re looking to add quick curb appeal to your property, this is definitely the choice for you.

This kit includes: braces, tie beams, rafters, pegs, nails and assembly instructions.

Floor and Wall Mounted Porch

This design is similar to the standard wall mounted porch, the only difference being the front posts reach the floor. This is a more modern design and creates a more ‘complete’ entrance to your property. The benefit of this design is that the rear posts attached to the wall will take most of the weight, so the front posts only require a shallow pad foundation to rest the staddle stones on.

Low Brick Plinth Porch

Another popular porch idea is the low brick plinth design. This porch kit is ideal for those looking for full height posts and the option to add railings, mullions or rendering. This allows you to transform your porch into a semi-closed area (great for growing vines and other shrubbery).

Low Brick Plinth Porch with Render Panels and Mullions

This is the complete porch design. With added mullions, render panels and brickwork, this porch adds charm and character to your property. Like with all our porch kits, you will have the option to customise:

• The size of your porch
• Front elevation
• Roof pitch
• Beam style
• Back Porch Ideas

Back porches offer an ideal outdoor living area to relax and unwind in the spring and summer. While porch ideas for the front of your property may lean towards enhancing the entrance, back porches are usually design for socialising and offering an escape from the warm weather when necessary.

For this reason, we have included a ‘lean-to porch’ option. Take a look below at our porch ideas for the back of your property.

Depending on the size of your property, you may want to consider combining any of our front porch designs with a lean-to. For example, you could have two lean-to complexes separated by a wall to floor mounted porch in the middle. This not only enhances the entrance to the back of your home, but it also offers another social space within your garden or patio.

Consider a Full Height Porch with Ballustrade

If you’re only looking for a small porch for your garden or patio area, any of our porch designs will fit and merge seamlessly with the rest of your property. However, we find that the ballustrade porch offers a more ‘rural’ element to garden and patio areas.

Looking for More Porch Ideas?

Although we build and provide a wide variety of unique oak porch designs, we understand that customers may require something more bespoke. Which is why we offer bespoke porch designs. Simply choose a base level of your porch from one of our designs above and if you do have some specific requirements we haven’t covered above, our craftsmen will happily help.

What About Assembly?

One of the biggest advantage of buying from TPS is that our porches are specifically designed for easy assembly. Some of our simpler kits (such as the wall mounted porch) can be designed within one week with a few helping hands. Our kits are designed for any skill set, from novice DIYers to experienced carpenters, assembly is easy with TPS.

Get in Touch Today

Our porches can be designed for almost any property, regardless of how big or small the space is. Our main priority at TPS is provide our customers with a marvelous entry to the front of their property, or an living space in their garden or patio. We’re here to help you maximise your outdoor space. Simply call or email our sales team to find out more about how we can transform the appearance of your property.

If you’re looking to start adding value to your property, you need to consider building a porch.

Front porches are one of the first design features buyers will see when approaching your house. First impressions play a huge role in a buyer’s final decision, so it’s important to ensure your home’s aesthetics are in order, and an oak framed porch is a great place to start.

Why Buy an Oak Framed Porch Kit?

There are several benefits of buying an oak framed porch kit:

• They are easy to assemble – the biggest advantage of oak framed porch kits is that they’re easy to build. With a few helping hands, the average DIYer should have no problem assembling any of our oak porches.
• They are durable – oak is a material that adapts to its surroundings over time. This means that weather and time
• They offer swift solutions for trade businesses – if you’re a tradesmen tasked with building an oak porch for a client, our kits are designed for fast installation.
• They require little to no maintenance – unlike other porches made from metals, concretes and PVC, oak porches are durable and actually adapt to their environment. They also absorb CO2, which helps the environment.
• They cut labour costs – building your oak porch yourself means you don’t have to hire a builder or carpenter to install it.

Your Porch Location

There’s a few factors to consider when choosing when it comes to installing your porch. There are essentially three locations, all of which serve different purposes:

• Front porch – located at the front of the property (entrance door)
• Back porch – located at the back of the property (back/garden door)
• Wraparound porch – covers parts of/or the whole property

The most common option is the front porch. They are usually simple constructs and are inviting entrances for guests. Depending on the size, porches can also offer ample space for relaxing and socialising outside a property.

Back porches also offer a place for socialising, as they usually lead onto a garden. Back porches come in a variety of styles and sizes which adds character to your outdoor space and some extra space for sitting and relaxing in the summer months.

Wraparound porches are larger and offer a more traditional look. Some people adapt their wraparound porches into mini gardens, whereas others instal them to help shield their property from harsh weather (especially houses located near the coast).

The Cost of Adding a Porch

The cost of a porch depends on the size, style and potentially labour time (if you’re not building it yourself). The cost of our one of our most common porches – the Floor & Wall Mounted Porch – is priced at £1,200.

Again, there are a number of factors to consider when buying a porch. Fee free to browse our range to get a better understanding of what you’re looking for and how much you want to spend.

Building Your Porch Yourself

If you’re looking to cut labour costs, you may want to consider building one of our oak porches yourself. All of our porches come with full assembly instructions. So, if you’re looking for a small project and you’re confident in your DIY skills, assembling your porch should be no problem (we recommend having a few helping hands to lift and fit the beams into place). Alternatively, if you would rather hire a builder or carpenter to build your porch, this can easily be arranged.

What About Planning Permission?

You will only require planning permission for your oak porch kit if your porch will:

• Exceed 3 square metres
• Exceed more than three metres above ground level
• Be within two metres of any boundary and/or highway

Additionally, if you live within a Conservation Area or a Listed Building, you will need to enquire about planning permission.

Your Return on Investment

While your return on investment largely depends on where your property is located, generally speaking, adding a porch to your property provides an average return on investment of 84%. Additionally, Homebuilding and Renovating included ‘adding a porch’ as one of their top ‘must dos’ for adding value to your property.

The Additional Benefits of Oak Framed Porch Kits

Costs aside, it’s also worth noting the many additional benefits that come with installing and building your own porch. Our oak framed porches are designed to add character to any property, as well as providing additional space. As mentioned before, adding porches come with a number of considerable benefits, aside from adding value to your property.