My Changing Priorities Over The Years – Front Porch Edition

Yesterday, I remembered that I nonetheless must put another coat of stain/sealer on the entrance porch earlier than our winter climate will get right here. Right here in central Texas, if we’re going to get winter climate, it often doesn’t hit us till January. Typically February. Once in a while, we don’t get a winter in any respect. ???? That’s Texas for you.

However as I used to be assessing the staining/sealing job that must be carried out ASAP, I started to recollect all the plans that I had thought of for our entrance porch and the entrance exterior of our home quickly after we purchased the home. I couldn’t keep in mind all the particulars, so I received on my weblog and took somewhat journey down reminiscence lane. Then I made a decision this must be a gaggle journey. ????

On the time we purchased our home, the entrance exterior was not fairly. It wanted a lot work, however I may see the potential.

I had large plans for the entrance of our home. I wished to do a full on transform of the entrance porch space, together with a potential change within the roofline, extending the porch, and a lot extra. In August 2014, one 12 months after we purchased the home, I did a few mockups of what our house could potentially look like with a big front porch remodel.

The primary thought was to only prolong the part of the entrance porch the place the entrance door is, and add a gable above the entrance door.

One other thought I had, which was my favourite thought, was to increase the whole entrance porch, including a porch space in entrance of the visitor bed room window, and including a gable roof over the whole entrance porch.

After sharing my very own concepts, I had a reader (who was a retired architect) ship me these concepts. You may see that that is once I was planning on incorporating Matt’s wheelchair ramp into the entrance of the home. (We ended up including the ramp within the again once we had the carport constructed.) And this was lengthy earlier than we determined to show the storage into my studio.

She despatched me two completely different designs, and this one was my favourite by an extended shot. I liked this concept a lot, and I nonetheless do!

However someplace alongside the way in which, my precedence of fully reworking the entrance porch space continued to be moved decrease and decrease on the record of priorities. And immediately, I don’t actually ever give this concept a thought anymore. I imply, each infrequently I’ll lengthy for a bigger entrance porch and assume again to those plans, nevertheless it’s not one thing that I put a precedence on in any respect. Our again addition is a precedence. Getting our again yard usable for entertaining company is a precedence. However general, I’m fairly pleased with our entrance porch.

It took numerous work to get from this…

…to this…

And whereas I do have these few tasks that must be completed up (just like the fake stone porch skirting, and fixing my string lights that fell), I like driving as much as our home a seeing our cute entrance porch with the nice and cozy wooden, the large and welcoming entrance steps, and the coral entrance door. I might name it quaint. At one time, I assumed I wished one thing grand. However after ten years on this home, I actually love the quaint look. And at this level, I believe I even favor the quaint look over one thing grand.

Even when we had the chance to do a giant entrance porch transform proper now, I don’t assume I might do it. That is a type of conditions the place my priorities drastically modified, and I’ve come to like what I’ve.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.