Porch Ideas for Ranch-Style Houses

Wrap-Around

• A wrap-around porch is one that goes around one, or both, corners of the house and down the side walls. It is a large porch option that can create a great deal of usable space outside the home. A wrap-around porch can be used as a deck for barbecues and entertaining, as well as a secure place for children to play. Because it is an enclosed porch, protective child barriers can be used to help contain the children while the parents enjoy a different part of the porch.

Concrete Patio

• A concrete patio porch can be used to create a unique look to the entrance of your home. You can used stamped and colored concrete to give the look of tile, marble or any other surface that you prefer. You could also install an indoor/outdoor rug on your concrete patio porch for added comfort. This kind of porch can also double as a deck for entertaining, and you can line a concrete patio with bushes and shrubs to offer a small amount of privacy in certain parts of the patio porch.

Rasied Deck

• A raised deck porch has multiple levels to accent the main entrance way. These kinds of porches are good for ranch-style homes because they offer a way of breaking up the look of your ranch home from the road. It creates the look of multiple levels to the home even though it is a single-story ranch. The raised deck porch can also be segmented and used for entertaining, or it can be a safe play area for children and a sitting area.

Bugalow

• Because your ranch-style home only has one floor, you can take advantage of it and create a bungalow porch. A bungalow porch extends the main roof of the house to create an porch with a roof. You can hang mosquito screens from the roof of your bungalow porch to keep bugs out in the summertime, or you can hang blinds that can be closed to keep out light or give you privacy on your porch.