Old Houses -New Porch (aug 11\19)

Old Houses are inspiring, reminiscent, sad, happy, family, living and dying.  

We live in an old farmhouse that is said to have been built in and around 1878.  The church in our small town had this house built as the manse.  The church manse was the hub socially in the community.  So not only as a manse but also as a regular house, it has a lot of history in the community with families and friends and more.  So its kind of exciting to be renovating our house and basically bringing it back to life.
So the journey of our full reno in itself is a story, things we uncover, conversations with neighbors whose family lived here and of course wild ghost stories too.

We are getting to different parts of the reno as time, weather, and funds permit us too and this summer we started on a project outside the new porch. We had to take of the small front porch that was on the front of the house because we had to lift our house to excavate the new basement.

So we built a temporary landing at the front door and one on the side when we added the new addition onto the back.
















This year our big thing apart from the interior work was the beginning of the new porch landing and then next year will be the roof portion and screened in area.  This new porch is really going to help us with some of the exterior work that we need to do so its a long time welcome project.  We will be able to replace to windows in what is going to be a beautiful vaulted ceiling master bedroom as well as start on some of the reshingling of the exterior walls.  So its really a welcomed project but it is also such a nice place to have an early morning coffee or a late afternoon cool drink place in the shade of a bunch of rather large fir trees.  

We still have a long reno road before us but its cool when you can sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor.  I forgot to mention that this new porch is going to wrap around most of the house from the west side to the north side and the font door on the north side that didn’t have one when we bought the house.  Can’t wait to see how it turns out:)