Screened in Porch – Done
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, thanks for asking my question!
Your porch is Amazing, I Love it with the paint.
I Love the new paint color!
Question: I noticed you have wood board “inside” the siding of the porch, how will you keep the wood from rain rotten?
Thanks
I don’t understand the question.
When it rains and the water hit the inside of your porch are you concerned with the rain/water damaging the wood around the inside bottom of the porch?
Not bottom but inside wood siding?
The screened in portion of the porch is covered with a roof (and gutters). Rain doesn’t get in except on rare occasion with a really windy storm and then it’s minimal.
How did you do the screen? Is there a particular system you used? We are redoing our screened-in porch and need to replace the screening.
We bought supplies from Home Depot. There was a track (kinda thing) and a rubber tube that you pushed into the track with a roller-majic that pushed the screen in tight. Does that help? LOL Sorry I didn’t do a tutorial.
I’m thinking about painting my screened in porch white. It’s 16 feet deep x 35 feet long. Do you have to repaint it every year or 2 years to keep it looking fresh? I’ve read that it’s a nightmare to keep looking nice once it’s painted white. I love a white porch so I’m on the fence about painting it.
If you prep, prime and use a good paint, it shouldn’t need additional paint any more often than pained siding would in your area. (Outdoor conditions are going to have some affect on paint “wear” as well.) I touched up some knots because the tannin bled through but other than that, mine looked great for the 8 years I lived in that house.
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!