Tuesday, October 18, 2011

A Bit of Touch Up

One of the projects that we are putting off until next year is our screen porch,or what we call the mud room.We would like to weatherproof it so we can hang our coats,keep our shoes,etc,out there. It is not attached to the house,meaning that there is a space between the wall of the house and the roof of the mudroom,so when it rains and snows...it rains and snows in the mud room. We have no glass in the windows,only screens (hence,screen porch,right?!)so when the weather gets colder we put plastic up over the windows so blowing snow doesn't get in. Our goal is to attach it properly to the house,jack it up so it's level (it's starting to lean),insulate it,put in dry wall,and regular windows. The whole kit and kaboodle. With this will come new stairs.

Since we just decided a month or so ago that we will have to wait on this endeavor,I decided to at least give our sad looking stairs a coat of paint. All the paint had pretty much worn off,and because they are in the shade about 99% of the time,a lovely green growth had  starting growing on them (Actually,we have this issue with other parts of the house as well). I like to decorate around my steps in the fall,and in the winter too,but with such sad looking steps...well,I had had it. We bought a gallon of porch paint,put some paint sand in it so there is a bit of grit,and went to work.


Sad looking,huh?

Ah....much better!




The only thing now about having a painted porch is that our house,which also needs painting,looks like it needs painting even more! :)

. Maybe I will get my mums today.....

4 comments:

  1. What a difference a coat of paint makes, doesn't it? I've found that here too. Our house is brick, but had two additions when my husband's parents owned it and they are both wood sided. The last time my husband re-painted, I hadn't noticed how much it needed painting till it was done and looked so much better. There's always at least one project needing to get done, isn't there? :-)

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  2. the newly-painted stairs are gorgeous! and i hear you about getting a proper mudroom/porch. we have an unenclosed deck/porch thing that runs the entire length of one side of our house. we are planning to enclose it in order to make a mudroom. right now - when you walk in the front door, you walk right INTO our tiny kitchen. and that is where was have our coats hanging and our shoes stacked and the kitchen is just too small to have all of that there. so we are hoping that after we finish the attic that we will have enough time to enclose a part of the deck in order to move all of the coats, shoes and boots, scarves, mitts, etc. - thereby getting it out of the kitchen. good luck on yours - i will keep my fingers crossed that you get it done soon. you cross your fingers for us!

    your friend,
    kymber

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  3. @Laura-it is amazing what a little paint will do.And you're right,the projects never end!

    @Kymber,we have our coats etc hanging up in out kitchen,too. Thanks for keeping your fingers crossed for us,mine are crossed for you!

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  4. Donna - thanks hun. keep us updated. and i'll keep you updated on ours! fingers still crossed!

    your friend,
    kymber

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