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The back of the house has a different job The front of a property is a view. The patio is for people sitting in it. That flips most of the design rules. Nobody cares how the patio reads from the road. What matters is whether the space still works after dark.The short version: the patio deserves its own plan. A roofline system does a great deal for the front of a house and almost nothing for where you sit. Two spaces, two separate sets of requirements to satisfy. The thing

Curb appeal gets planned entirely for daylight The front of a home absorbs a lot of budget. All of it is designed for daylight. Then the sun goes down and the whole thing disappears. Half the hours people drive past your house fall after dark for months at a time, and there is nothing to see.Put together, none of this is exotic. What it requires is deciding to treat the night view as a real thing, which is the part almost everybody skips. The houses that look good at night