Originally posted by Maintenance 6:
I'm not an architect, but I read that the Greeks actually figured the tapered column thing out and were pretty advanced in their design techniques. And they did it without the aid of computers. Today, it seems we can't get a porch stoop designed without a CAD operator. In this case the OP said they had removed aluminum columns and replaced them with wood wrapped in coil stock. I pictured those old mill finished 1"x1" posts with scroll work between them, being replaced with 4x4s, thus a fairly short column. I wish you had mentioned the entasis reasoning in the "look like garbage" post, but hey, at least I learned a new word.
