We’ve been doing a lot but instead of covering the weekend I’m going to post by project.  Ryan is going to be working on the house for 3 weeks straight starting next week and I’ll try to keep up the documentation to follow that but this week I’m going to just try to catch up on some of the project updates.

We’ve had our contractor working on the little porch off of our bedroom the last 2 weeks.  First he rebuilt the little 1/2 wall entirely and repaired the roof around it (flashing/roofing) so that hopefully that fixes the leak in the porch roof below.

New walls and sill

View from the bedroom door

Then he put up shiplap bead board on the inside which I love the look of, built a new sill and then did the siding on the outside of the porch.

Hard to see from down here but new siding is up and ready for paint. Obviously those posts have to be stripped first. All is primed though so prepared for any rain.

The porch still needs works.  We need to scrape/strip the paint on the inside for all the original wood we’re keeping.  Then it all needs to be painted.  And then we need to put down new exterior carpet for the floor.  We also have to add in some drainage from the floor out to the roof – the flashing is there for it but any new floor will need some weeping holes or something to get water down to the flashing.

We are going to keep the screens off instead of refinishing them but we saved them so they could be refinished in future.  For now we’re keeping it an open porch because it looks nicer I think, and you can see more details on the inside that way!

Next up – the new wall in the upstairs back hallway Ryan has been building!