My 10 Acres

We finally got our front door installed.  Counting the window on top it is almost 10′ tall.  I think it is looking good with the porch columns.  Now we have to pick a color to paint the porch floor.  Since the door is big with a lot of glass the builder wanted to wait until most of the porch work was done.  It would have ruined my day if a 2×4 went though the glass.

Our front porch is almost done. You can see the arch that will be over our front door

The center peak of the porch gets an arch on the underside to match the arch over the door.  You can see the arch taking shape in this picture.  There will be another piece of OSB against the house and there will be 2×4′s strung between them.  In a few more days the front door will be set and the T&G porch flooring will go down.

We have a center peak on the front porch that is going in.  We like the look of it, but it is a lot of time consuming work so it is going a bit slower.  The siding crew has most of the soffit up and will be starting on the siding soon.  The front porch “has to look like a porch” so it is getting tongue and grove Douglas Fir as the surface you walk on.  It is something we will have to paint, but since it is under a roof it should last.

We have 6 columns to hold up our front porch and our builder started setting them last week.  The first 3 are set and are looking quite good.  The look is what I feel my wife wanted when she told me I needed to add them to the budget.  Some pictures are below.

Work on the front porch framing has started.  The porch is almost 400 square feet and will also be covered.  The gas meter was installed today so and the furnace is hooked up enough to start running and start pumping heat into the house to dry it out.