Look How Far I’ve Come! (Front Porch Then And Now)

I’m slowly however certainly getting this entrance porch makeover nearer to a stopping level in order that I can take a break from working on this central Texas warmth and deal with an indoor mission for the remainder of the summer season. However I gained’t cease till I’ve reached my purpose of getting the entrance porch completed.

The excellent news is that I’m completed with the restore work on the columns, they usually now have a recent coat of white paint on them. The unhealthy information is that I nonetheless haven’t completed the fascia boards across the porch above the brand new skirting. BUT I WILL!! I promise, I’ll. And I promise that I’m not placing it off simply to annoy y’all. 😀 I’m simply doing tasks as I really feel impressed to do them in order that I can maintain the momentum going, and I felt impressed to do the a lot simpler job of repairing and repainting these columns. I’m having hassle getting that final rotted skirting board off, so forcing myself to try this would trigger me to lose motivation and momentum. However I promise, I’ll get it carried out earlier than I wrap up these out of doors tasks and head inside for the remainder of the summer season.

Anyway, right here’s what the columns regarded like after I confirmed you the progress a few days in the past…

I had eliminated quite a lot of the rotted and spongy areas across the bases of these columns after which used wooden hardener to agency up wooden across the holes that have been left. Then I used Bondo Wooden Filler to fill within the holes and Plastic Wooden exterior wooden filler on any small cracks. As soon as all of that was dry, I sanded them easy with my sander, gave them a coat of Zinsser B-I-N shellac-based primer, and completed off with two coats of Sherwin Williams Period paint in Further White (i.e., the colour proper out of the can), sanding with 220-grit sandpaper between coats.

I’m actually excited concerning the progress, and I’m so relieved that it labored out for me to restore the present columns reasonably than fully redo them presently. Fully redoing them would have been an enormous mission, and I should find yourself having to try this sooner or later. However I feel I’ve no less than purchased myself a number of extra years earlier than I’ll must go that route. And these very nicely might final indefinitely if I give them a recent coat of paint annually to maintain the wooden protected from rain.

I’ve a number of extra paint touchups I need to do, after which I’ll end up the fascia boards (let’s hope I can work out how one can get that facet board off), after which I’ll put new tape lights up, put up the brand new lights by the door, stain the porch boards, and name it quits for now. Actually, I’d like to maintain going as a result of I’ve completely loved working outdoors and making progress on these out of doors tasks, however because the temperature rises, I can really feel myself getting slower and slower with the progress. However I’ll be troubled to get again outdoors and work on extra out of doors tasks as quickly as I’m completed with the storage room and the temperature begins to return again down within the fall. After all, I’ll additionally need to get began on the sunroom, so we’ll see the way it goes as I attempt to juggle these two targets.

So whereas the entrance porch continues to be unfinished, and I nonetheless have a number of tasks that I need to end up, I need to remind y’all simply how far this entrance porch has come. I do know a lot of you may have been with me from the start, because the day we moved into this home. However regardless that I’m the one who’s carried out the work, and I’ve seen the entire thing from starting to current, I nonetheless discover myself shocked after I come throughout photos of how this entrance porch space began out once we purchased the home. That’s precisely how I felt a few days in the past after I was scrolling by way of these previous photos.

As a reminder, right here’s how the entrance porch regarded the day we purchased the home…

And now take a look at her. She’s nonetheless not completed, however my goodness, she’s come a great distance because the day I used to be handed the keys and she or he grew to become ours.

As quickly as I get the remainder of these tasks completed on the entrance porch and get all of my instruments put away, I’ll take some new images from the road and present you extra comparability photos of the way it regarded then vs. the way it appears to be like now. And as soon as the autumn climate will get right here, I’m hoping I can really get no less than a little bit little bit of landscaping carried out. Now that the porch skirting is completed, I’m feeling actually motivated to get some planting beds in and get some crops within the floor. And I’m nonetheless holding an eye fixed out for the right water function to place in entrance of the breakfast room home windows. I’ve made quite a lot of progress, however there’s nonetheless a lot to do!

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.