Yesterday, I remembered that I nonetheless have to put another coat of stain/sealer on the entrance porch earlier than our winter climate will get right here. Right here in central Texas, if we’re going to get winter climate, it normally doesn’t hit us till January. Typically February. Every so often, we don’t get a winter in any respect. 😀 That’s Texas for you.
However as I used to be assessing the staining/sealing job that must be achieved ASAP, I started to recollect all the plans that I had thought-about for our entrance porch and the entrance exterior of our home quickly after we purchased the home. I couldn’t keep in mind all the particulars, so I acquired on my weblog and took a little bit journey down reminiscence lane. Then I made a decision this must be a gaggle journey. 😀
On the time we purchased our home, the entrance exterior was not fairly. It wanted a lot work, however I may see the potential.
I had large plans for the entrance of our home. I needed to do a full on rework of the entrance porch space, together with a attainable change within the roofline, extending the porch, and a lot extra. In August 2014, one yr after we purchased the home, I did a few mockups of what our house could potentially look like with a big front porch remodel.
The primary thought was to only lengthen the part of the entrance porch the place the entrance door is, and add a gable above the entrance door.
One other thought I had, which was my favourite thought, was to increase your entire entrance porch, including a porch space in entrance of the visitor bed room window, and including a gable roof over your entire entrance porch.
After sharing my very own concepts, I had a reader (who was a retired architect) ship me these concepts. You may see that that is once I was planning on incorporating Matt’s wheelchair ramp into the entrance of the home. (We ended up including the ramp within the again once we had the carport constructed.) And this was lengthy earlier than we determined to show the storage into my studio.
She despatched me two totally different designs, and this one was my favourite by an extended shot. I beloved this concept a lot, and I nonetheless do!
However someplace alongside the best way, my precedence of utterly transforming the entrance porch space continued to be moved decrease and decrease on the checklist of priorities. And right this moment, I don’t actually ever give this concept a thought anymore. I imply, each every now and then I could lengthy for a bigger entrance porch and suppose again to those plans, nevertheless it’s not one thing that I put a precedence on in any respect. Our again addition is a precedence. Getting our again yard usable for entertaining company is a precedence. However total, I’m fairly pleased with our entrance porch.
It took loads of work to get from this…
…to this…
And whereas I do have these few tasks that must be completed up (just like the fake stone porch skirting, and fixing my string lights that fell), I like driving as much as our home a seeing our cute entrance porch with the nice and cozy wooden, the large and welcoming entrance steps, and the coral entrance door. I’d name it quaint. At one time, I believed I needed one thing grand. However after ten years on this home, I actually love the quaint look. And at this level, I believe I even desire the quaint look over one thing grand.
Even when we had the chance to do a giant entrance porch rework proper now, I don’t suppose I’d do it. That is a type of conditions the place my priorities drastically modified, and I’ve come to like what I’ve.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
