Covered Entry on Northern Minnesota 24x32

[mclausen]

I was wondering if anyone had any images of some nice covered entries they have done on their own project, or have seen on someone else's?  I got my roof on and shingled, and I am now ready to start siding, so i figure I better put a porch roof on before I get much farter.  I used 10' sidewalls, so I am hoping to build a /\ type porch roof that connects on to the wall and either uses two posts for supports, or angled braces back to the wall.  Any help or pictures would be great.  Here is a photo to show you what I am starting from.  

Thanks,
Matt

[phalynx]

"so i figure I better put a porch roof on before I get much farter."

Sorry, I have to laugh and reply to this.  You might want to change that word.  

Additionally, I would also like to see porch details.  I am always amazed at what people come up with.  I will be building my home in a few months time.

[Mark_Chenail]

If your main concern is to just provide a bit of shelter over the door, the simplest solution is to sister on some porch rafters to the roof rafters to extend them out and over the door with a new fascia board on the front.  A small beam under the end of them and either posts or just  a diagonal brace would support it all.
This picture shows a similar arrangement on the side of the house, probably sheltering a side door:


And heres a couple of victorian bracket hoods.



It wouldnt be hard to do the curved roof one with ribbed aluminum roofing over shaped rafters:

[Amanda_931]

If I lived in Northern Minnesota instead of close to the Alabama-Mississippi border, I'd consider

a) an air-lock entry--that is, a solid door between your entrance door and the warmed part of the house.  Probably annoying in the summertime, so you don't want that on all your doors, especially in a small house.  But some cousins had a mail table and the coat closet in the airlock, so it wasn't "just" what you had to go through to get into the house proper.  I haven't seen much about air-lock entries in a good long while.

b) a gable roof over the entry porch (with a place to set groceries please, so less fumbling to open the door) so that snow will not fall off even that smallish part of the roof onto your steps.  Or at least the steps avoiding snow-slide--Mark shows a gable roofed porch with steps on the side.  Actually this idea is nice insurance when we get five inches total of snow most years, and then an occasional 12 inches of wet snow in April.