Primer: More comfortable cathedral ceilings

Image excerpt from my Fine Homebuilding "Drawing Board" column about cathedral ceilings. Rafter battens and paired wood rafter ties.Pick up a copy of the November 2013 Fine Homebuilding magazine to catch my latest "Drawing Board" contribution. This one explores lending nuance to cathedral ceilings by introducing different levels of enclosure, overhead density, and orderly rhythm.

Click here for a PDF of the column. "Comfortable cathedral ceilings" by Katie Hutchison, Issue #238, October/November 2013. Reprinted with permission copyright 2013, The Taunton Press, Inc.

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by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast

An entrée to integral, entry porches

Image excerpt from my Fine Homebuilding "Drawing Board" column about integral porches.Start your spring home-planning with Fine Homebuilding's annual HOUSES issue, on newsstands now. Inside, find my latest "Drawing Board" column. This one focuses on designing integral, entry porches. Learn to differentiate an applied, entry porch from an integral one, and explore four examples of successful integral, entry porches.

Click here for a PDF of the column. "Design an integral porch" by Katie Hutchison, Issue #227, Spring/Summer 2012. Reprinted with permission copyright 2012, The Taunton Press, Inc.

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by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast

Video: Home with Katie: Design tips -- Adding a shed dormer

Here's a little video ditty I recorded (with my husband's able assistance) on a lark a couple of weekends ago. It captures some footage of the Edgartown Dormer Renovation in my mother-in-law's simplified, Gothic-Revival style home on Martha's Vineyard. You can also find the Edgartown Dormer Renovation featured, in sketch form, in a Drawing Board column I did for Fine Homebuilding several years ago. The dormer got some ink in The Boston Globe in January, 2011, as well.

by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast

Video design tips for upper-level oriels

If you've seen the Drawing Board column I wrote for the September 2011 issue of Fine Homebuilding magazine ("Taking oriels to a new level", Issue #221), you might want to check out this video, too. I created it as a companion piece to my column about upper-level oriels. (An oriel is a window bay without a foundation.) If you haven't seen my Fine Homebuilding column yet, it's on newsstands now, and here's a link to a PDF version of it. Reprinted with permission copyright 2011, The Taunton Press, Inc. You can also find this video in the "Magazine Extras" section of the Fine Homebuilding website here.

by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast

Fun with upper-level oriels

Image excerpt from Fine Homebuilding Drawing Board column about upper-level oriels.Drop by your local newsstand, and pick up the September, 2011 issue of Fine Homebuilding to find my latest "Drawing Board" column about upper-level window bays, known as oriels. Explore three different types: an entry-announcing oriel, stair-landing oriel, and a pair of oriel dormers. Find out why you might want to incorporate an upper-level oriel in your next project. Click here for a PDF of the column. "Taking oriels to a new level" by Katie Hutchison, Issue #221, September 2011. Reprinted with permission copyright 2011, The Taunton Press, Inc.

Visit the KHS publications page to see other magazine columns and articles I've written.

by Katie Hutchison for House Enthusiast