Front Porch Transformation….

Referring to my Spring Fever is Here…post, I’ve been working on our front porch and I can’t just show you the end results without showing you where we started with this project 10 years ago,

First Sight… and Ohh…What a Sight it Was!

Tear off the skirting,  raise and level them bones, board up a broken window to keep the bats out, create some temporary stairs and this is what it looked like;

not very welcoming 😦

and that’s not a dead cat, BTW it’s Spook, he still loves to take a snooze on the front porch 🙂  … later we replaced this front door and hired a crew to replace the old rickety porch. Scroll cursor over photos for captions below …..

Removed all railing and deck

Removing old post

installed new deck and ceiling

Progress

side view of progress

Reinstalling original railing

Crew done and gone

Installed ceiling fans

Gary prepping for paint

He did a Great job, wish I had pictures of his progress,( all pics pre-blog up to this point ) then about 4 weeks ago, I painted the wooden rocking chairs and porch swing…

Painting rocking chairs

Primeing swing

Painting Swing

then it looked like this;

Painted rockers and swing

That’s when the fever really hit me and I decided to stain the deck and stairs…and heres how that went;

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But that wasn’t enough so I kept going…

Front view after…

So can you guess what was next from this picture?

wait for it…………………………………………

you guessed it!!!!

Primetime Again

Next time paint before install..ugh!

What a pain…

But wait!…..There’s More…………….

WTH.! rocks and bricks??? buried in here

Roses, right view

Roses, left view

Ok finally this is the end product……until next time…

Hello!!

Starting to look like a home

Our new Porch!

Front door view

Another angle

Spring Fever 2013!

Welcome!

I’m dedicating this post to my mother, who I know is smiling down on me from heaven and is so proud…Happy Mother’s Day to all

Anybody else out there feeling that spring fever?  What projects are you working on?  As you can see, we still got a lot of painting to do around here, not this weekend, its raining again, God bless! He seems to know when we need a break….:)

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