If the door is also white the owner usually wants to combine the original design with a touch of something more modern.
Front door cape cod style house.
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Traditional cape cod styled houses are quite simple consisting of symmetrically designed central front doors which are encompassed by a couple of multi paned windows on either side.
Many cape cod style homes were built before the civil war.
Although the style faded a bit it found a resurgence in the early to mid 1900s when it was called cape cod revival.
The cape cod front door.
Cape cod homes feature steeply pitched roofs with side gables and occasionally a bowed or gambrel roof.
Most cape cod front doors are either black dark blue maroon or even brown.
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The black and white exterior here is the typical design of some new england townhouses back then.
Even though the styles were separated by about a century they still share several commonalities including a conspicuous lack of exterior details.
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The houses were designed to withstand the stormy weather of the coast of massachusetts and most designs still draw from their colonial counterparts.
Shed or gable dormers are often aligned with windows on main floor and large chimneys are lined on center with front door and linked to fireplaces in each room.