The porch is finally painted white and Screened in!
I tell ya’, Wes and I are turning a new leaf with all these projects we are doing together. This weekend we installed the screen door.
Do you remember what it looked like before?
I know painting WOOD is always controversial. There are those that liked the porch the way it was and didn’t think we should paint it.
But we did…actually, we hired this job out, as you can see, and are completely happy with the job that was done.
Then Wes and I screened it in and installed the door.
We don’t have any furniture yet but we like it soooo much better painted!
How about you? Paint or no paint? What’s your preference?
Resources:
Knoxville area painter: Will Kaiser of Summit Painting Solutions (865-246-8123).
Duration paint from Sherwin Williams: ”Snowbound”
Great transformation of porch! We built a screened in porch at our former home in 1995 and we loved that porch and have so many beautiful memories of it. First sign of spring and we were sitting out there. You will get a lot of use out of the porch. We installed clear Christmas lights around the room and wrapped silk ivy and wisteria blooms and installed a ceiling fan. You may get blowing snow in the porch, so we build frames that was covered in heavy mil plastic and installed them in the winter with wood screws, and removed them in the Spring and stored them under the porch. One winter blizzard dumped about 13 in. in the porch and that’s when we decided to build the frame with plastic sheeting to avoid that the next winter. We made the mistake when we built it to using nails instead of wood screws on the floor boards. We were always banging down the nail heads that sometimes popped up. Learned a lot from building that porch and deck. Really miss it!